Diesel Truck MPG
Do you guys know what would be the best MPG Diesel Truck to pull my 2012 26 Foot Fifth Wheel (7,580 lbs). Thanks for your help.
Forum Discussion
Just having this discussion with my wife yesterday, as we are dreaming of upgrading from a pop-up to possibly a motorhome or maybe a larger TT
I don't have a huge resume of RV experience, but I've done a bit of towing in my day....... & I have done a lot of research on this topic.....it seems that these ballpark numbers presented here in this thread cover most of the RVing world.
10-12MPG towing
10-12MPG for a motorhome
Just as a point of reference, I'm probably in the 15-16MPG ballpark towing a small pop-up behind a half ton Silverado, but guess where I'd estimate that I'd be towing a TT appropriately sized for my truck (a little less than 7,000#)!
yep, probably around 12MPG
I used to tow a gooseneck trailer for work in the 12,000# ballpark, behind a dodge 3500 gasser V-10 back in the mid-late 1990's. I used to see approx. 8MPG to 10MPG as I recall......
Heavy on the foot, or in hills it'll go down a bit
and of course there are some that would b less, and some of the big diesel busses might get better......
But, so where does that leave us as a general rule?
maybe 9MPG to 12MPG across the board for RVing? Do you more experienced folks agree?
An expense and a concern sure, but not much of a variable so I agree with bombfixer, there are more important things to concern yourself with.....
Oh, & as I tried to point out to my wife, you have to stop thinking of it as a daily driver. Or at least in my case we do. It's more like that travel expense to get to the destination..... once in a while.....like an airline ticket.
I don't have a huge resume of RV experience, but I've done a bit of towing in my day....... & I have done a lot of research on this topic.....it seems that these ballpark numbers presented here in this thread cover most of the RVing world.
10-12MPG towing
10-12MPG for a motorhome
Just as a point of reference, I'm probably in the 15-16MPG ballpark towing a small pop-up behind a half ton Silverado, but guess where I'd estimate that I'd be towing a TT appropriately sized for my truck (a little less than 7,000#)!
yep, probably around 12MPG
I used to tow a gooseneck trailer for work in the 12,000# ballpark, behind a dodge 3500 gasser V-10 back in the mid-late 1990's. I used to see approx. 8MPG to 10MPG as I recall......
Heavy on the foot, or in hills it'll go down a bit
and of course there are some that would b less, and some of the big diesel busses might get better......
But, so where does that leave us as a general rule?
maybe 9MPG to 12MPG across the board for RVing? Do you more experienced folks agree?
An expense and a concern sure, but not much of a variable so I agree with bombfixer, there are more important things to concern yourself with.....
Oh, & as I tried to point out to my wife, you have to stop thinking of it as a daily driver. Or at least in my case we do. It's more like that travel expense to get to the destination..... once in a while.....like an airline ticket.
