“still amazed”
Sunday, February 22, 2009hello once again everyone. just as the title says I’m still amazed at this truck!! the more i drive this truck the more i enjoy it. to be able to pick this truck apart like no other i have driven, to be able to look and talk to the engineers that have built this truck it still fascinates me, the roominess, the quietness, and power of the DD15is very impressive. this last run i had i will share with you. i don,t know about you but in California i don’t speed much however, i came out of sparks nv., had a load to pick up in Yuba City ca., it was a load of prunes, going in to ar. i loaded 18 bins my weight was 76260 lbs. not an overly heavy load but a nice load. i do run slower in ca,. but once i hit the az state line it’s up to operating speed at around 67-70 miles per hour up and over the Rockies. when i hit the ok tx state line my fuel mileage was still 7 mpg!!! i will let you do the math on this one. i had fueled up in sparks nv,. my odometer read 69911. my next fill up was in Tucumcari nm,. my odometer read 71426 and i used 217 gals. of ulsd. what kind of number did you come up with? it stayed like this until i came into Oklahoma and ran into a wind storm of wind storms. we had gusts of over 55 mph. coming from the north,by the time i got into okc,. my mileage had dropped about .2 tenths of a gal. which is not very bad at all!!! even tho the wind was bad and strong, i did not feel i was out of control of the truck. it handled the wind very nicely. it held the road very well, not to say i didn’t feel it but i liked the way it felt with all that wind, and the fuel mileage?? i can’t hardly wait until we get are summer blend of fuel, then we will see what the fuel mileage is. you all be safe and have a great week.
