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slowmover · 06-22-2016, 06:50 AM

Poor planning. Period. Due to lack of distant car travel over last 15-years or so. The pleasures of such are now thirty years in the past.

As a smartphone is pretty well a necessity in securing and keeping a job today, so too is having an electronic toll tag. (Things are far worse in the NE and New England). One pre pays. Auto deduct from card as it runs low. Same "problem" exists Texas and elsewhere. There's no good way to "make time" (meet an established average mph, thus, mpg) otherwise. Not anymore.

Was rolling Soith Carolina yesterday and talking with another driver from our firm. Neither of us can figure who the hell all these people are (in cars) on the Interstate middle of the week and middle of the day FAR from metro areas. Or, at 2300 on a Tuesday night 80 miles or more from either Dallas or Houston. Not a holiday, not vacation weekend, etc. Every Interstate and major US or State highway is now like this. Defies belief.

Be glad you didn't get that GMC. Always an overrated van, barely qualifies as a motorhome. Capacities suck, frame is a joke, and FWD not a good match. The rear engine FMC a far better designed and built unit. About a 1000 of them out there.

There's a lengthy re power of the Dodge 440-3 being replaced by an LBZ Duramax on one of those forums. BigRabbitMan, or some such. An owner of a decade or more. Good read.

And next road trip, DoD keeps employees and contractors to 350/miles/day maximum. Day after after day is wearing. I may run 400-700/miles/day plus load or deliver (two hours each out in weather). It takes a lot out of one, even when one knows many details ahead of time on how to do things.

500/miles/day is too much in my one ton. Even across wide open far west Texas.

An Arstream travel trailer is cheaper to buy, own and use. The right one behind a small turbodiesel can hit the low 30s in mpg. Motorhomes are for rookies. Those who really don't understand what they're up to. Really, only good for 6-7 people or more. A trailer is far more efficient in every regard. An aerodynamic all aluminum TT can last forever. MoHos are nothing but maintenance pigs.

If you want a project then look to Airstream (better, Silver Streak and Avion) from mid 1990s and earlier. Airforums is a good start.

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slowmover Banned Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 2,442 2004 CTD - '04 DODGE RAM 2500 SLT Team Cummins 90 day: 19.36 mpg (US) Thanks: 1,422 Thanked 737 Times in 557 Posts	Poor planning. Period. Due to lack of distant car travel over last 15-years or so. The pleasures of such are now thirty years in the past. As a smartphone is pretty well a necessity in securing and keeping a job today, so too is having an electronic toll tag. (Things are far worse in the NE and New England). One pre pays. Auto deduct from card as it runs low. Same "problem" exists Texas and elsewhere. There's no good way to "make time" (meet an established average mph, thus, mpg) otherwise. Not anymore. Was rolling Soith Carolina yesterday and talking with another driver from our firm. Neither of us can figure who the hell all these people are (in cars) on the Interstate middle of the week and middle of the day FAR from metro areas. Or, at 2300 on a Tuesday night 80 miles or more from either Dallas or Houston. Not a holiday, not vacation weekend, etc. Every Interstate and major US or State highway is now like this. Defies belief. Be glad you didn't get that GMC. Always an overrated van, barely qualifies as a motorhome. Capacities suck, frame is a joke, and FWD not a good match. The rear engine FMC a far better designed and built unit. About a 1000 of them out there. There's a lengthy re power of the Dodge 440-3 being replaced by an LBZ Duramax on one of those forums. BigRabbitMan, or some such. An owner of a decade or more. Good read. And next road trip, DoD keeps employees and contractors to 350/miles/day maximum. Day after after day is wearing. I may run 400-700/miles/day plus load or deliver (two hours each out in weather). It takes a lot out of one, even when one knows many details ahead of time on how to do things. 500/miles/day is too much in my one ton. Even across wide open far west Texas. An Arstream travel trailer is cheaper to buy, own and use. The right one behind a small turbodiesel can hit the low 30s in mpg. Motorhomes are for rookies. Those who really don't understand what they're up to. Really, only good for 6-7 people or more. A trailer is far more efficient in every regard. An aerodynamic all aluminum TT can last forever. MoHos are nothing but maintenance pigs. If you want a project then look to Airstream (better, Silver Streak and Avion) from mid 1990s and earlier. Airforums is a good start. Last edited by slowmover; 06-22-2016 at 06:56 AM..