mpg on 3/4 or 1 ton trucks
I currently have a chevy 1500, 4.8 looking to upgrade to a bigger truck but I don't want to loose too much fuel mileage. Currently getting about 15mpg U.S gal, 18mpg Imperial gal, wondering what the f...
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twodownzero wrote:
Commercial vehicles that are as heavy as our trucks are with campers attached are almost universally diesel. I have seen UPS and FedEx employ some gas trucks recently, but those are the exception rather than the rule. If there was any superiority--in maintenance cost, fuel cost, purchase cost, etc., I would think that commercial vehicles would use gasoline. But they don't. This is true even for vehicles used only for local delivery or use (think tow trucks or couriers) or long haul. All use diesel.
This is changing as more fleet operators are specifying gas engines in new vehicles. Also, UPS is converting more of its long-haul fleet to LNG (liquid natural gas) and the medium-duty local delivery trucks to CNG (compressed natural gas). This is probably mostly driven by relentlessly higher diesel fuel prices and the DEF requirement.
