Proof that wind is the big factor in MPG.

2oldman wrote:

RoyB wrote:
If the truckers will let you stay there whip in behind one of them and draft them. That works too...

Yikes.

My first tow vehicle was a 165hp cummins dodge 3500. Towing 12,000lb alpenlite. Pushing a hard wind up I-5 and a convoy sailed past me. I jumped in behind the last rig. My brother in law said he could read the name of the hinges on the back doors of the trailer we were drafting. We hung in for over 100 miles. About Sacramento they whipped into the right lane and left me out in the center. The wind just stopped me and of coarse the cars started passing me on the right. After a few frustrating minutes someone let me change lanes and off the freeway I went. Time to camp!