Given choice gas or diesel powered fill time coach
Which and why if given choice gas or diesel powered (36 - 40 foot) coach with 2500 - 3500 lbs toad attached for fill time usage? Thank-you
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sluper wrote:\
The "Safety Factor" of the diesel engine exhaust brake should make this a no brainer issue for the MH. Talk to someone who has traveled the mountains in a gasser and needed to use the "Run Off Lane". Ask those people what they prefer and it will almost unanimously be the diesel.
I usually put 15-20,000 miles a year on my coach and most of it is in the Western mountains. I have NEVER seen a gas coach in the "run-off" lane on any of the mountain passes. In fact any vehicle that ends up in the run off lane, with the exception of a mechanical problem, was being driven by a driver that did not know how to descend a hill. An exhaust brake will not cure stupidity or correct a driver that does not know how to drive in the mountains.
I have had both DP's and gassers and as far as I am concerned, the power plant has nothing to do with determining the best coach for a full timer. The floor plan that works still trumps any engine.
The last few postings about coaches that ended up flipped off of the highway because of a flat tire were DP's. Maybe that should be considered also. :B
