Dieselgate 2.0 Cummins and Ram

[Piotrsko]

If the trip takes longer to load and unload than travel, we considered that local. Equal to load times was intercity, making the point that cities were about 100 miles apart here on the left coast. Everything left was longhaul/OTR for lack of a better classification.

EXCEPT for a couple customers who were in next over city and bought full truckloads, sizing was by distance and how much they bought. We would turn it over to a forwarder to amalgamate if it took about 15-20 feet and load whatever truck hit the dock. Since the customer paid for the transit, they were cost conscious and hardly ever used fredx/dhl/ups expedited.

[j-c-c]

Originally Posted by JSH

When we buy an engine from Cummins for one of our vehicles it is purchased as a turnkey package. That package includes everything from the intake including the aftertreatment, fuel pump, and ECM mapping. There are years of testing and development that we pay them many, many millions of dollars to do for us. Cummins certifies the engine as a complete package and we can make no modifications to it.

The fuel pump comes installed on the engine. Bosch is a subcontractor to Cummins


EDIT: Again, 14,000 lb GVW is a key defining line. The rules are different above and below that rating. You are describing how things work under 14,000 lbs.

That 14,000lb benchmark is interesting,
I am aware of nowhere else in the truck world that the 14,000lb threshold comes up. The normal ones I am aware of are 80,000, 55,000, 33,000, 26,000, 10,000 and 5,000.
Seems rather arbitrary.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by j-c-c

That 14,000lb benchmark is interesting,
I am aware of nowhere else in the truck world that the 14,000lb threshold comes up. The normal ones I am aware of are 80,000, 55,000, 33,000, 26,000, 10,000 and 5,000.
Seems rather arbitrary.

14,000 lbs is the dividing line between Class 3 (10,001 - 14,000) and Class 4 (14,001 - 16,000 lbs)

The Federal government calls vehicles Class 3 and below "light duty" and they have different rules than medium and heavy duty.