Interesting MPG on my Trucks

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Posted by Willy-N on Sunday, April 09, 2006 at 11:12AM :

All this talk about saving fuel I got to do a MPG test on my new Tender yesterday. I drove a 200 mile drive for a inspection and passed it. I ended up getting 9.5 MPG doing 60 mph in the hills and flats empty. Empty is around 25,000 lbs. Now my Chevy 1 ton with the 454 empty but weighing 6,000 lbs gets around 6.5 to 7 mpg! My little Ford Pickup gets 20 miles to the gallon if your real carefull but it weighs only around 3500 lbs. You would think that a vehical that weighs over 4 times the weight of a pick up would not get better MPG. Now a so called new pick up getting only twice the MPG and weighing 7 times less that is bad. If I was to load any one of these to 25,000 lbs they would not even get close to the Tenders milage. When I was loaded to 44,000 lbs I still got 6.9 MPG(better than the Chevy 1 ton empty!) at 60 mph. Kind of makes you wonder why these little trucks can't do better than that being so small? Mark H.

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454's not known for mpg - Chriscase 12:12PM 04/09/2006

the real reason that Diesels get better fuel milage - George in MI 1:12PM 04/09/2006
- WOT? - apb (in NY) 6:03PM 04/09/2006
- That and Diesel fuel has 20% more BTU's per gallon nm - Chriscase 4:58PM 04/09/2006
  - do you have a reference for that? - George in MI 10:00PM 04/09/2006
    - http://www.compacttractorreview.com/htmlpage.aspx?pageid=6 - Chriscase 10:51PM 04/09/2006
      - Now that you mention hybrids - Allen Patnode 8:07PM 04/10/2006
      - Re: http://www.compacttractorreview.com/htmlpage.aspx?pageid=6 - Jerry in Id 7:52PM 04/10/2006
        
        Re: http://www.compacttractorreview.com/htmlpage.aspx?pageid=6 - MoparNorm 8:26PM 04/10/2006
  - How in the world do they get 20%... - MoparNorm 6:35PM 04/09/2006
    - Simple. They are invisible. - Chriscase 10:43PM 04/09/2006

Mark, one word... - MoparNorm 12:05PM 04/09/2006

Yup! - Todd Wilson 12:46PM 04/09/2006

Re: Interesting MPG on my Trucks - Ugg (at IL) 11:44AM 04/09/2006

Re: Interesting MPG on my Trucks - Paul (in NY) 11:29AM 04/09/2006

Re: Interesting MPG on my Trucks - bryan 11:17AM 04/09/2006

Re: Interesting MPG on my Trucks - Willy-N 11:27AM 04/09/2006
Re: Interesting MPG on my Trucks - apb (in NY) 11:24AM 04/09/2006

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