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BrianAbington · 09-13-2008, 03:03 PM

My wife and I moved yesterday. I'm glad we have great friends because I was to sick to unload the truck.

However thats not the point. We rented a 15' truck but the company said that they wanted to give us the 24'truck for the same price because they were out of the 15's.

This truck is based on an international chassi, and it was a diesel! Huge truck but it was really easy to drive.

The move was a one way trip that was just shy of 30 miles.

The only problem was that once you got up above 45mph the front left wheel made this howling noise and started to shimmy a bit.

So I could only drive about 40mph.

I'm sure this helped abit because the engine was running at about 1,500 rpms in 3rd gear. I wonder if I had been able to get up to 5th gear if the rpms would of dropped more.

I filled it up when I took it back and it took 3.37 gallons. Which works out to about 8.9 MPG.

Any one have a better or worse experience with one of these huge trucks?

09-13-2008, 03:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
BrianAbington Master EcoModder Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Omaha Nebraska area Posts: 271 Civic - '98 Honda Civic DX 90 day: 41.44 mpg (US) Thanks: 1 Thanked 8 Times in 5 Posts	8.9 MPG in a moving truck My wife and I moved yesterday. I'm glad we have great friends because I was to sick to unload the truck. However thats not the point. We rented a 15' truck but the company said that they wanted to give us the 24'truck for the same price because they were out of the 15's. This truck is based on an international chassi, and it was a diesel! Huge truck but it was really easy to drive. The move was a one way trip that was just shy of 30 miles. The only problem was that once you got up above 45mph the front left wheel made this howling noise and started to shimmy a bit. So I could only drive about 40mph. I'm sure this helped abit because the engine was running at about 1,500 rpms in 3rd gear. I wonder if I had been able to get up to 5th gear if the rpms would of dropped more. I filled it up when I took it back and it took 3.37 gallons. Which works out to about 8.9 MPG. Any one have a better or worse experience with one of these huge trucks?