mileage?

[petoworx]

hello all, in my 2006 gmc 2500 410 rear 4wd w lance 915 ive been getting around 12mpg for the past 6 yrs ,now im looking to upgrade to a 3500/f 350 maybe a diesil. just curious what kind of mileage are you getting ?? thanks pete

[sky_free]

Truck/Camper in my sig getting 10.75 hand calculated highway mix loaded at about 12,800 lbs. I cruise at 65 on the freeway. It's worth noting that the computer consistently under-reports my mpg, reporting about .5 mpg low. Not a big difference though.

[homefor2]

I found my on board computer tells me I'm getting from low 14's to mid 15's on the highway with the truck and camper in my sig. I travel between 55 and 60 mph. I've heard the computer referred to a "lie O meter" so I'm not sure how accurate it is. Quite frankly I don't care what the mileage is. There's nothing I can do about it except keep my speed down. I saw a good bumper sticker that said "THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN GOOD MILEAGE." LOL

[FireGuard]

TCs "suck" the fuel. I'm on a month long trip right now and have had a great tailwind from Lake Havasu to Amarillo tonight. could tell by the feel, sound and boost gauge that I wasn't using much power, but I still only got 13.5 mpg over 400 mi. I was towing a 4k lb pontoon boat but a TC like a high profile Lance just has a lot of wind resistance.
Speed is a killer. Double the speed, quadruple the drag.
I'm just glad I was going east not west. Although, I do have to go home.
I nomally get 10-11 mpg with my Lance 981 and 03 Dodge CTD.
It's funny how towing a 12k lb 5th wheel gives about the same mileage.

[CAJW]

Truck/Camper in my sig line gets 12-13 loaded, terrain dependent. Truck sans camper gets highway mileage in the 18-20 range, again terrain and weight of right foot dependent. Really happy I chose a diesel.

[6pac]

Tikic2 ,
In answer to your question no we've never put a pen to the mpg we just take the computer info. We drive back an forth from Tampa , Fl to Jupiter , Fl usually twice a month an have been doing that for the last two years plus during the summer going on trips out west an up the east coast. So we probably just haven't taken the time to do so .

[Roamer28]

Just clocked this one out this weekend 600 miles.2014 F250 4x2 super cab 6.2 gas fully loaded wet and gear, 2014 Lance 855 hit the scales on the way out at 9,960lbs driving a mix of back roads and interstate. 10.9 miles to gallon average.

[basslbbig]

11-12mpg with just camper, 10 pulling the boat. description below.:)

[ticki2]

6pac wrote:
With the camper @ 55mph according to the computer...20.5mpg
Without the camper in town according to the computer ....26 mpg
With the camper around town according to the computer ...12.4 mpg
Maybe I should mention we drive in Florida on flat ground . When we go to the mountains an we have the mpg does change. We have 185000 miles on the truck an the last time we weighted the combo weighted in at a little over 12200pounds
Happy traveling

Have you ever hand calculated your MPG ?

[KD4UPL]

My '05 Duramax gets about 11.5mpg loaded with my 11' 4,000+ pound camper driving 70 mph. If I'm also towing the 4,500 pound boat then it drops to about 11 mpg at 65 mph (I have to slow down because of the ST tires on the boat trailer).
The truck is never "empty" since I have an aluminum flatbed with tool boxes full of stuff. In this "empty" configuration I get about 15 to 16 mpg.

[campn4walleye]

We too, get about 12 (10 if it's hilly or windy) with the TC fully loaded. It's the only reason we bought the dually.

We said in the beginning of this, we didn't buy it for gas mileage, we got it to haul the heavy load.

[More2Explore]

With the gasser in my signature I get around 10mpg loaded. It's a new set-up for me so I still need to do the numbers without the computer.

[Xpd77]

I have a 2012 Ford F 350 and we have been getting about 13 to 14 miles per gallon when hauling the camper.when I am running empty I'm getting about 18 miles per gallon.

[Francesca_Knowl]

petoworx wrote:
hello all, in my 2006 gmc 2500 410 rear 4wd w lance 915 ive been getting around 12mpg for the past 6 yrs ,now im looking to upgrade to a 3500/f 350 maybe a diesil. just curious what kind of mileage are you getting ?? thanks pete

"Fuelly.com" is one of my favorite websites- it logs fuel mileage reports from users of just about every vehicle on the road.

Looks like the 2014 F350 already has some reports- Link but once you're at the site you can punch in any make/model year etc.

[jimh406]

It depends a lot on gearing and what year you are changing to. 55 around here would make you a road block. In any case, diesels get more mileage but also in many areas cost more for fuel. My last two trucks are diesel because they can haul/tow better in mountains and have more range between fill ups.

[silversand]

hello all, in my 2006 gmc 2500 410 rear 4wd w lance 915 ive been getting around 12mpg for the past 6 yrs

...we've got essentially the same truck, rear end, and engine (Vortec 6), but in a 2004.5 model year:

-hauling the camper (albeit ~~1,600 LBS lighter than your Lance) = 13.6 MPG

-truck unladen with 2 passengers on open road/highway = 15.3 MPG

*truck has 39,146 miles on it presently; I drive very evenly, and ~5 MPH under speed limits on highways

I suppose if I drove the 2500HD like a logger on 2 gallons of Starbucks Blue Mountain, I'd probably get 9 MPG unladen :B