truck guy fuel log?

[Clev]

Originally Posted by cfg83

ccrider -

It's best to count everything because your truck is in the real world. However, it's your choice. You do have the option to make a separate garage entry for the same truck, maybe calling it "old red taco with load" or "old red taco at work" or "old red taco punchin the clock". Put all the fuel logs with loads in there. Saving fuel when carrying loads is important too.

I like that idea. It would be nice to put those into a separate log for at-a-glance comparisons to other similarly-loaded driving.

[luvit]

my car doesn't support scan gauge.
i have to pump gas after each trip to calculate results. i'm too lazy to do that anymore.

some people just enter in one or more insanely great trips and that's it.

[bgd73]

truth is the fuel log, it ain't a contest.

My own sucked air in fuel for awhile, making it worse than a truck..I still jotit down, goes with the real history.

[cfg83]

ccrider -

Just to put my mileage where my fingers are, I just had my absolute worst all-time tank since joining Ecommodder :

Fill date    Distance    Fill amount   MPG 
2010-05-04   128.6 mi.   3.87 US gal   33.23 US 

There are two reasons for this. One, I have started commuting, so there is more weight in the car and compromise on my part in terms of my driving style. The second is that I was helping my wife with her jewelry business. I was hauling art-fair tents, tables, and other assorted junk up and down hills where I live. It was the ultimate MPG black hole. Lots of short trips on steep inclines.

However, 33 MPG with two people in the car is like 66 MPG with one person in the car. And, when my mini-wagon is hauling stuff and doing *work*, it is making $ for me and mine.

CarloSW2