EL PASO, TX – I have owned a successful freight transport company with 30 big rig trucks since 1987 called Bordertown Transportation. We haul a wide variety of goods all over the continental U.S. Our fleet has Freightliners, Kenworths, Peterbuilts, Western Stars and Internationals with engines from Cummins, Detroit Diesel and Caterpillar.
With the skyrocketing cost of diesel fuel lately, I was really concerned to see our profits quickly going up in smoke - especially when our Peterbuilt 379’s, which are not very aerodynamic, were only getting around 5.5 to 5.8 mpg’s (2.34 to 2.47 kms/L). Our more fuel- efficient trucks were getting from 6 to 6.5 mpg’s (2.55 to 2.76 kms/L). As a trucking company owner, I know that diesel fuel is our number one expense.
We had tried some other products to boost our fleet’s mileage and we were very sceptical about them. None were effective. We tried other additives and also magnets that clamped onto the fuel lines; we tested out some kind of component that you put in the intake manifold of the engine, too – none of those products delivered the kinds of results we were told we could expect. Needless to say, we were very disappointed.
Fortunately, my friend Ron Boersema introduced me to a new fuel-reformulating product called Super Eco-Fuel Saver. I was very impressed with what he told me about this new product, so we decided to test it in 6 particular trucks, with different engines.
In the best case scenario, our Freightliner FLD was averaging 5.8 mpg’s (2.47 kms/L) before we used Super Eco-Fuel Saver. With Super Eco- Fuel Saver it jumped up to about 8 miles per gallon (3.40 kms/L) – that’s almost a 38% mileage increase!
With the Super Eco-Fuel Saver in the other 5 trucks, we saw their mileage dramatically improve too – going up on average from 6 mpg’s to 7.5 (2.55 to 3.19 kms/L). That’s about a 25% increase in fuel savings.
Since I also regularly drive one of our rigs on long hauls, I ran the Super Eco-Fuel Saver in my truck as well to personally test it. I didn’t notice any increase in power, but I did notice that there was way less smoke from the exhaust and the engine ran a lot quieter. Those were significant changes that impressed me right away.
This truck that I tested myself was a 2006 Western Star with a 525 hp Detroit Diesel engine, and it had been averaging about 4.7 to 5 mpg’s (2.0 to 2.13 kms/L). With the first tank using Super Eco-Fuel Saver in the diesel, my mileage increased to 5.5 mpg’s (2.34 kms/L). With the second tank using Super Eco-Fuel Saver, the mileage increased to 6.5 (2.76 kms/L). The third tank gave us the most impressive increase; it went up to 7.2 miles per gallon (3.06 kms/L)! That’s over a 35% increase in fuel efficiency and another huge savings for us right there!
It became clear to me, and all of my other drivers, that Super Eco-Fuel Saver helped improve the mileage on our trucks more and more with each tank – so it’s true that this product works even better over time with continuous use. That was our experience with it.
Since those initial tests were so successful for us, I immediately ordered several cases of Super Eco-Fuel Saver, and I’ve reordered many more cases since then. As we continue to use this product in all of our trucks, and since the fuel is now running cleaner and combusting cleaner, I expect that there will be less maintenance on all of our EGR valves, on our fuel injectors, and on the engines overall- because they’re also running cooler now with Super Eco-Fuel Saver in the fuel.
In addition to the great savings we’re enjoying from reduced diesel costs because of Super Eco-Fuel Saver’s improvement in our mileage, Super Eco-Fuel Saver will also save us a lot of money on maintenance of our 30-truck fleet. The typical replacement cost for a dirty EGR valve now runs about $900.00 on the Cummins ISX engines. And with these engines now running cleaner, we expect that we’ll have to replace those EGR valves a lot less frequently- so that’s a very welcome extra savings benefit from using Super Eco-Fuel Saver.
Hands down, Super Eco-Fuel Saver works great in our trucks and with the current cost of diesel, Super Eco-Fuel Saver will save my company well over $317,000.00 this year on fuel alone. And, it will also save us a LOT of money on our maintenance costs. It’ll really help boost our bottom line. I highly recommend this great product to others!
Tino Para – Owner, Bordertown Transportation
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