What's your mpg...

[smdk2500]

LOTS of stereo equipment...lol. weighed with me in it, im about 150.

How do you have 8000lbs on your steer axle but none on the drive axle.

 

[95C1500]

13.7 mpg average over the last 5 months that I've been keeping track.

1995, c1500, 350, 4l60e, 31x10.5r15 Duratracs, mostly highway miles to and from work, myself + whatever the junk in the toolbox weighs as well as the drag created by the mountain bike in the bed lol

 

[MrPink]

0, my mpg is 0. My truck has not been driven enough by myself to actually calculate that. And since it is a truck/project, and I don't daily it, it does not matter really what it gets.

 

[Jesse_Wenting]

1998 K1500 ECSB, stock condition Vortec 5L, very mildly built 4L60e, 285/75r16 tires and 3.42 gearing.
City is only around 14mph, but at highway speeds I pull a solid 19-20mpg. Some things to take into account though are that the truck is under-geared, running larger wheels, the PCM thinks the gearing is 3.73 (long story), and I live in southern Ontario so I've probably pulled around 100lbs (45kg) of rust off the body so ya know

 

[stutaeng]

I’m wrong

A TAHO that weighs 8,000 lbs only on the front axle and 0lb on the rear axle with only 150lb driver when the Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) is only like 6,500 lb ???

8,000lb is close to maximum GVWR of a 3/4 ton of the era!

Let's see this "HOE!"

 

[PlayingWithTBI]

How do you have 8000lbs on your steer axle but none on the drive axle.

I'm thinking maybe the truck was weighed all at once instead of by axle

 

[JAvy]

1998 Silverado ext cab short box 2wd. 350 vortec, 4l60, 3.73. Stock size 235's on stock 15" wheels.

I am fanatical about measuring fuel economy. Fill up, zero odometer, fill up again, divide litres by km. 75% highway, 25% city. Every tank.

17.5-18mpg is the norm.

Best I've ever got was on a road trip through the Rockies, 11.1L/100km which is 21.2mpg

 

[smdk2500]

I'm thinking maybe the truck was weighed all at once instead of by axle

That is possible. I guess ive never seen a scale that has pads big enough or set so that a rig the size of a tahoe or sub can fit on one pad. I just ran my service truck over the scales today and the pad is only like 3 feet wide. I know the main scale on the intersate isn't much bigger.

 

[PlayingWithTBI]

I guess ive never seen a scale that has pads big enough or set so that a rig the size of a tahoe or sub can fit on one pad. I just ran my service truck over the scales today and the pad is only like 3 feet wide. I know the main scale on the intersate isn't much bigger.

We had 70' scales at a couple places I worked where we could weigh a complete semi or any combination of it. The scale tickets usually had "Gross/Tare/Net" weights. A lot of times they'd unhook the tractor and just weight the trailer(s).

 

[Kran]

How do you have 8000lbs on your steer axle but none on the drive axle.

it was a CAT scale for a semi. i just drove up to the front part of the scale.