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bagman
Oct 16, 2015Explorer
Actually, we are quite pleased with it! Our GMC 4500 Cube/Box van with 17' NBC Supreme body has been averaging 10.3 MPG making deliveries of plastic bags (heavy) in the metro-Detroit area, which includes Wayne, Oakland, & McComb counties and every day it is a lot of stop & go driving (traffic lights) and making 7 to 11 deliveries/day, which means stopping the truck, unloading the product, starting the engine back up again, and on to the next delivery/stop and repeating this process over and over again. Therefore, to me 10.3 MPG is not too bad under these conditions. Now one day next week, we will deliver 6-8 skids of product to a customer 105 miles away in Michigan's "Thumb" Snover, Mich. and half of the trip, we'll be able to use cruise control. I'm very curious to see what kind of fuel economy the new GMC w/6.0 V-8 achieves on this trip!. I still need to have our driver take some pics and post them up here. Yesterday his newly born daughter was in critical care in Childrens Hosp. in Detroit and I had to drive the new truck and quite frankly it was a smooth ride and a pleasure to drive! Bags.
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