Speed limiters

Yer.....a sharp instrument attached to the accelerator cable that prics the driver's leg when they get too excited



LOL


Good to see that you had a good trip and that youhad no dramas along the way.

I like sitting on 85km/h and get up to 8km/l sometimes with the 600kg trailer on the back


Cheers

Steve
you could give this systen a look

GPS Vehicle Tracking Systems

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Hi Steve
The old Datsun 180B's used a height adjustable bolt through the floor directly under the accelerator pedal. Wound down to floor added an extra 25kph.
You could fit similar to these real cheap, and it would also stop hard acceleration as well as top speed.
Just screw on a Dick Smith "black box" (any type of electrical looking thing), and fit a wire or two onto the bolt, pedal, and earth, and tell your drivers it's a monitor to prevent ancillary adjustment of the limiter, but can be over ridden in cases of emergency with a few turns of a spanner.
All up, probably $20 or so.
Cheers
Ian

What about no gismo at all. Just offer a pay incentive? If their fuel bill is below a certain level they get bonus in their wages. You could go halves in the savings and keep the staff happy?

Hi Stev
The best I have seen are for heavy vehicles like Aussie Posts. GPS/ Sat tracking at all times. If the driver exceeds speed limit I think it's for 5sec, a buzzer sounds, if they do it 3 times the phone rings and they are talking to someone about it. Mind you they get a call if their sitting still as well.

Expensive system but you know where all your vehicles are at all times as you can watch it on your computer. Great for any liability regarding safety, insurance etc.
There is also a memory stick you can buy and put in vehicles,(like under the seat) when you download to the computer it shows times speeds etc.

If your doing set runs, work out worst fuel use, best fuel use and if the drivers comes in under the average they get a bonus. It's an incentive for them to drive for fuel economy and you still save.

I have drivers for example who will do Syd > Bris return and use 100l more than another driver. So the one who saves fuel gets the cream jobs and a bonus, it doesn't take long for the rest to work it out.

I'm not sure you are comparing apples with apples.


By doing 90, you extend range from 600ks to 900ks, implying that you travel 900ks at cruising speed.

Then you say the max distance you can go at 90kph is for the 50ks to the turnoff. So in a return trip, only 100 ks is at cruising speed.

It may not be worth stuffing around with expensive/frustrating/limiting cures to save fuel on such a small part of the trip.

You'd probably get more variation from headwind/no headwind on that stretch than dropping 10ks.

If you regularly travel huge distances at cruise, 90k might send you to sleep :) then it wouldn't matter how much fule you'd saved.

G'day Steve
I think tdv is on the money here. The drivers are the key to reducing your fuel costs. Have you had a team meeting to discuss how you and they can benefit from reduced fuel consumption? If it is in their best interest (financially or via some other reward method) I reckon you will achieve the desired outcome.
Manually limiting the top speed could potentially be dangerous and you could leave yourself open to legal consequences in the event of something going wrong.
Cheers from the Moose

Gday Steve

I wonder of there may have been other variables contributing to the different fuel useage figures as well as the speed drop.
I would be happy to be wrong but I'd be surprised if you got a 50% (600 to 900) improvement from just 10km/h drop on its own.
Any thoughts?
cheers
John

yea but ...... 90 kph on the hwy will only frustrate other drivers

hahahahaha Great to see you got back home safely Steve, the family are all OK down here, Paul is on the cusp of enetering the Army for his gap year and all is not too bad.

Have to get up there one time when we can go to JimJim falls with you rather than a flight over it (which was fantastic too), although the Ubirr that you took us to see, the isolation and lack of crowds was (and still is) the highlight of our NT holiday.

And I promise I will sit on 90kmh mate