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Originally Posted by MazdaMatt
400 miles per ton per gallon... That doesn't sound that great to me. A truck takes on 80 tons and gets 8mpg. So that's 640 miles per ton per gallon... am i missing something?
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The commercial states that a freight train can move 1 ton
of freight 423 miles on a gallon of diesel. A truck weighs 40 tons (80,000 pounds.) However, it typically can only carry about 40,000 pounds of freight (20 tons.) That means that a truck can carry 20 tons of freight 8 miles on a gallon, which is equivalent to hauling 1 ton of freight 160 miles on a gallon.