MPH vs MPG
I bought a 2022 Chevy 3500 6.6L Duramax Turbo Diesel and wanted to check the fuel economy for both towing and not towing. The numbers you'll see DO NOT include regen periods where the engine is burni...
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Lantley wrote:
Going slower to the point of impeding traffic because your vehicle can't safely go faster is one thing but going slow and impeding traffic to save fuel is selfish and unacceptable.
Operating in a legal manner is the requirement. Greatest spacing all day is the moving target for attentiveness.
Not the stupidity of the selfish can’t space themselves to get around slower vehicles in a safe, legal manner (bunched in a pack is PROOF of stupidity). Back off and wait.
62-MPH works very well. It’s the rare vehicle can’t get around one judiciously. A matter of canceling cruise control and dropping to 55 to get the ones slowest around GONE. Use headlights ALWAYS, and consider high-mount taillights as pair to the originals you want them to see you earlier.
Stay minimum of 5-below once into a 65 or metro. Get down early. This eases others around you. They’re always racing to catch the next monkey troup.
The road chosen (design) is the indicator of average speed. Not speed limit. Traveling faster confers no right-of-way. It’s the unskilled who open a story telling us how fast they’re running. . Cars are fastest, and big trucks are below that. RV’ers staying below both have the easiest day in managing others around and avoiding their screw-ups.
Bad mirrors are an RV problem. I’d not have less than EAGLE VISION for TT, and BIG convex for pickup with “towing mirrors” (additional). Low skill RV’er can be told pretty easily by their being surprised from the rear.
Your future is coming up behind you.
The Interstate is a range of from 45-80/mph depending on state and region.
“Too fast for conditions” is primarily traffic volume. Repeated passes means one’s traveling too fast.
The only hours to cover the Interstate at a high average legal speed is from 0400-0800. After that it becomes crowded. By 1100 it’s over for anything but moving along maintaining greatest vehicle separation distance anywhere near the major metros and anything east of IH-35.
Braking & Handling are what matter with RVs. Lowest skilled experience and least stable rigs. This is what to keep foremost. T
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