Diesel vs gas......................

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Larry has a HEAVY combo and does require a Diesel truck!!!

Any heavier that the following?

I live rural and there is 2 miles of hilly gravel / dirt road from my house to the nearest hard top road. We had that hard cold snap and snow last week, then everything warmed up to the high 40's over the weekend, turning the gravel road into a soupy, muddy mess.

I had my semi tractor at home to do some work on it. But I needed to get a load of Kawasaki Mules to Chicago by Monday Morn. Trailer was in town, but had to get the semi tractor to town to get it. Barely got out of the drive and the 11,000 lb steer axle just cut trenches in the road and bogged the whole truck down. Couldn't make any progress even with both lockers engaged on the two drive axles.

Had the wife bring out 2015 Chevy 2500 6.0L gasser out and hook up. Hooked up a heavy duty tow strap to a clevis hitch in the receiver and then to the tow bar on the semi tractor. My wife then drove the 2500 and pulled the semi truck with me in it over 7 short but steep very muddy hills to the highway.

21,000 lb of semi tractor, pulled thru the mud, over 7 hills and the pickup barely broke a sweat. Running on $1.12 a gallon E85 fuel. The poor little 6.0L 360 hp / 380 lb torque V8. While the pickup did a great job, the wife was the bright light. She had never done anything like that before and was almost a nervous wreck at the end of it. But she did a great job, as good or better than anyone else I had seen try this before. A true towing champion!

So, it is a tough sell to convince me that at least within the capability of the gasser pickup, that a diesel and all the associated issues with diesel is required. Might be nicer and offer some bragging rights to friends and massage an ego, but not necessarily "required". "required" is a much overused term today.