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Originally Posted by slowmover
I see you have your truck listed at 4,600-lbs. Is that with driver, full fuel, the usual junk on a certified scale? Also, what was the scaled weight of the truck, solo, loaded for camping, as well as the trailer weight (with separate tongue weight) both empt and loaded? There is some tweaking that can be done here to improve FE, and the addition of weight can be seen against solo for future predictions (what I think this is all about: work per gallon over distance).
My efforts empty and solo help offset the work the truck can do in overall fuel cost. But towing is open to adjustments 95% of those towing do not make which will help FE and road performance.
The fuel log shows above 15-mpg. All towing? Pics of rig?
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Recent pic of the truck:
4600lbs is the dry weight shown on the door placard. After dropping off a load of junk at the dump, the weight with a full tank and me in it is about 5300lbs.
Camping trailer is 4800lbs dry IIRC, and gets loaded up quite a bit from there in spite of my pleas to "pack lightly". I estimate the trailer to be about 6000lbs fully loaded, but I didn't get it weighed.
My fuel log shows 14.05mpg for the tank towing the trailer. This was a little over 200 miles towing the trailer (Ultra-Gauge reported 11.8mpg average while towing) the remainder was mostly driving around the campsite or nearby towns.