Pulling a jayco Pinnacle from Los Angeles to Butte Mt

laknox wrote:

Olympian retired wrote:
to all i need to be up there by may 9th and she can only leave on thursday the may 7th so is this really a very doable drive if i drive all night and all day with starbucks in my gutt.

That's really pushing it, IMO. If the FW has LT tires, you can bump your speed up on the flats, but if they're ST's you're limited to 65 mph, max. You'll always pay for higher speeds in fuel, but you already know that.

Lyle

we do have lt tires

Olympian retired wrote:
to all i need to be up there by may 9th and she can only leave on thursday the may 7th so is this really a very doable drive if i drive all night and all day with starbucks in my gutt.

That's really pushing it, IMO. If the FW has LT tires, you can bump your speed up on the flats, but if they're ST's you're limited to 65 mph, max. You'll always pay for higher speeds in fuel, but you already know that.

Lyle

to all i need to be up there by may 9th and she can only leave on thursday the may 7th so is this really a very doable drive if i drive all night and all day with starbucks in my gutt.

My truck that i will be pulling her is a 2005 chevy durmax 3500 dually 4x4 6.6 diesel and the trailer is about 14000 pounds unloaded

2 long a$$ days, 3 doable days and 4 very leisurely days.

If you are just trying to get there, then 3 days is not that bad!

First night in Saint George Area, second night in Brigham City or other North Salt Lake City area.

Should be all good roads and allow speed to be maintained. Check on Road construction in Utah.

Chris

For us, we'd take 3 days to travel the 1100 miles and enjoy the ride and the scenery and arrive happy and relaxed not up tight and beat. Of course, if there was some things along the way we wanted to stop and see that we haven't before, the 1100 mile trip just might take 6+ days. No "mad dash to the outhouse by willie he make it" for us type trip!

That's long long ago and why I'd finally sold and retired even though I thoroughly loved having my own business, a very rewarding profession, and was so excited and happy to go to work every day. It was just time to finally take every day off and join the unemployed and the future I had built...

For us it would take for days as we don't travel much more over 250-260 miles a days.

8 MPG's really sucks and has to be a gas engined truck being pushed hard for 68 MPG with a large RV behind. Had many gas trucks towing large RV's in our 51 years of RV'ing and know. Our 12,800 lb truck scaled weight 5th wheel loaded to travel behind our Crew cab 4X4 long box Duramax Diesel constantly averages about 13-13.3 MPG towing at 58-60 MPH and we also average about 50 MPH for distance traveled each day. Been that way for a little over 80,000 miles of towing that same RV.

Very often, we'll see the same RV rig that we'd met and left the same CG as us and driving much faster than we do, just pulling in to the next CG we stop at night. Talked to so many of them again and hearing them claim we had to be going faster than 60 to keep up with them and get to the same place at the same time within 10-15 minutes but we never do go over 60 and always on cruise control. Long retired and what's the rush anyway?

Both writing the same thing at the same time but you beat me posting yours!