Truck camper mileage

[missouri_dave]

I know these things aren't exactly fuel efficient or bought for that purpose but what sort of mileage are you guys getting with the camper on and is your rig gas or diesel?

[freddypinak]

2006 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD 4x4 6.0 gas with 1998 Lance SquireLite 165. Three runs on the Alaska Highway and two runs to the East coast. The way we geared the truck we get 10.0 with or without the camper. Plenty of power so we can pass some going uphill....love it!

[noteven]

2009 Ford Ranger std cab 2.3 4cyl 2wd with Palomino small truck model - 18.4 mpUSgal cruising at 60-65 mph 500 miles parkland terrain light winds. Scanned by rv.net weight police drone but I was 13 lbs under GVW...

[specta]

2700 miles from sea level to 7000+ft. 12,000 lbs total.
2011 2500HD 6.0L gas.
8.6 mpg average for the trip.

[larkyblast]

With our new camper we've average 15 so far, it was about 19 with our old camper.
2012 Ram 3500 diesel cc srw sb
Old camper 79 Vanguard camperette, 800 lbs
New Camper 2019 Cirrus 820, 3100 lbs

[Western_Sky_Ran]

Running a Ford 6.0 diesel in a an F250, short bed,crew cab,4X4,and carrying a Lance 825, about 2K pounds. I get 12MPG,running 70 to 80 MPH on the highway after 230 miles.

[Kayteg1]

harley4275 wrote:
I get the same with the tc as when pulling my 25' tt...it is like holding a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood in front of you....

That brings painful memory.
I had incident when Las Vegas winds lifted 4x8 plywood with my 215 lb on it and slammed us against stone floor.
Took almost a year to recover from shoulder injury

[deltabravo]

10-11 with the camper on.

[996Pilot]

2015 RAM 3500 4WD MegaCab SRW Cummins TD with an Arctic Fox 811 (roughly 4200# loaded) we usually average 14-16mpg. I tend to keep it at about 62mph most of the time occasionally a bit faster. The truck has 3.73 axle ratio. I routinely average 19mpg unloaded. I am a very light footed driver, loaded or unloaded.

[dennis1]

12-13 duramax 2007 dually. 20 empty

[harley4275]

I get the same with the tc as when pulling my 25' tt...it is like holding a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood in front of you....

[Travels_with_Yo]

2016 Ram 2500HD - 6.4L Hemi gasser - Adventurer 80RB (loaded about 2480 lbs)
Georgia to western Canada and back, roughly 8,600 miles
Hand calculated (meticulously) for entire distance - 13.8 mpg

This is driving sedately at 60 to 65 mph. On one 170 mile stretch across Montana I got 15 mpg.



Fundamentally, my mileage is "blown in the wind".

[trail-explorer]

Cobra21 wrote:
With a suburban, 1993 I got 9-10 pulling the camper. Without camper it was about 16-17.

This is the truck camper section, not the travel trailer section.

[ryoung]

With the truck and camper in my signature,I got 13.9 mpg on a recent trip from Salem, OR to the Snake River in eastern Oregon, a little over 1,000 miles round trip. Quite a few mountains. I was a bit surprised as I only had 3,000 miles on the truck. Not even broke in yet.

BTW, is tailgating a semi truck now an approved way to increase fuel mileage?:E

ryoung

[noteven]

2012 F350 4x4 160” wb flatbed 6.2 gasohol V8 / Cirrus 820. Camper to back of cab gap not closed with a storage box yet. 8.3 mpUSgal on 87 E10 bucking a quartering 20-30mph wind, rainwater on road cruising 62mph.

Next trip calm winds 12.5 mpUSgal same speed same fuel same route.