Nissan Titan with a diesel!!!

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:

Passin Thru wrote:
Just because they raise sppeed limits to 80 does'nt mean you ahve to drive them. I ran a Peterbilt with a 500 HP CAT and 15 spd overdrive from Baltimore to Seattle. I ran 75 when I could from ID to IA and averaged 6 MPG westbound and 7 east bound over a4 year period. Schneider trucking argues that 62 is ideal but if you figure 13 MPH 10 hrs aday, that's 130 miles X 39000 mi X 4 yr thats 156 K X $2/mile and I made more money, had more home time and drove a Large Car instead of a Pumpkin, stripped to bare essentials and trade in value was double.

Why not do the math for say 2 miles per gallon that you would have saved had you drove 62 MPH. I bet it wipes out any "extra" money you think you made.

You are missing the point that we don't need 625 HP engines in pick ups to tow our RV's.

I also know you don't have to run 80 MPH but if everyone else is going 80 and I'm going even 60 I'm now a hazard or that is the excuse the trucking industry used to get the speeds raised for truckers. I used to subscribe to that way of thinking also, would run 70 MPH towing my 39' (total) TT down the highway just so I could get to the campground maybe two hours quicker on our yearly trip to Florida.

Don