CA-35
Senior Member
Re; Nigel
Over the road trucks re; Peterbilt Kenworth Freightliner all of them loaded or not get 5 miles per gallon. That's about 12 gallons an hour. But that's at a steady RPM. I have to believe those badboys (the D series Cats) are sucking it down with the variable RPM's they are asked to produce all day long under heavy loads. I fish on a 42' Post with twin Volvo diesels. Sure as I'm sitting here if we run 2000 RPM we burn 20 gallons an hour. If we run 1500 RPM we burn 15 per hour. I think it's all relative to the task at hand but I wouldn't want the fuel bill of those behemoths.
I think I'm in Bluesypicky corner on this one;
The fuel tank on a D10T holds 318 of our American gallons of number 2 diesel fuel. At 580 horse power, that puts it in the same ball park as a lot of modern over the road trucks. I would guess around 9 to 15 gallons an hour, depending on how hard she was working. About 2 days on a tank of fuel.
Over the road trucks re; Peterbilt Kenworth Freightliner all of them loaded or not get 5 miles per gallon. That's about 12 gallons an hour. But that's at a steady RPM. I have to believe those badboys (the D series Cats) are sucking it down with the variable RPM's they are asked to produce all day long under heavy loads. I fish on a 42' Post with twin Volvo diesels. Sure as I'm sitting here if we run 2000 RPM we burn 20 gallons an hour. If we run 1500 RPM we burn 15 per hour. I think it's all relative to the task at hand but I wouldn't want the fuel bill of those behemoths.
I think I'm in Bluesypicky corner on this one;
and because I'm Dade County educated I needed to get my calculator to tell me that at 900 gallons in an 8 hour day that's 1.875 gallons per minute!A quick googly search indicates the Caterpillar D10 will use upwards of 800 to 900 gallons of diesel fuel in a typical day of running.