Can you guys tell me roughly what you get towing something like a 28 ft enclosed trailer, loaded at 8000-10000 lbs?

 

We pulled my boat(32 fountain fever)back form Indiana, ruffly 10k or a lil more, averaged 17 mpg, this was through mountains, coming back to baltimore..

 

I'll tell ya in a couple weeks LOL,

I'll be towing a 28 foot enclosed / loaded from Ohio to Charlotte NC .

This truck yanks it around like a rag doll.

 

What year/engine do you have? That seems really good for towing 10K lbs. That's about what I averaged just driving emtpy everyday.

 

pulling a enclosed trailer and a boat is different IMO, the boat doesnt have as much wind drag as a enclosed trailer.... i will be pulling my 32ft travel trailer this weekend, ill let you know what kind of mileage i get, but from what i read or other forums its about 12-16mpg is average towing..... i get around 17-18 back and forth to work...

 

Thanks, interesting posts guys, I was told by a friend at work with a 6.7 Cummins Dodge Ram he gets around 17 empty and not much different with his 5th wheel camper ~ 9000 #. This is not the first time I heard this about diesels.
My 6.0 L can get 13-15 depending unloaded and cross country we just got 8.9 mpg last month.

 

last year on my 2500HD 6.0, i would average 7-8mpg pulling the trailer..... and it pulled it no problem on straight highway, but when it got just a little hilly I could definately feel the big load back there..... so i figured it was the opportunity to convince the wife we needed a diesel! lol... i will be pulling it this afternoon on the highway, but i brought it home from the storage the other day and it is a day and night difference compared the 6.0, it pulls it with no hesitation at all...

 

last summer with my the parent holiday trailer (30ft bumper pull) i was gettig 17mpg on the highway, then for work pulling a 40ft flare stack trailer i was getting 16mpg

 

Thats pretty close to where we are, we got 8.9 mpg total cross country and ditto to the hills!

Thanks

Carlos

 

thats great mileage , i cant get better than 15 avg with my lmm , these dpf really kill any kind of mpg.

i have to do some pulling soon and ill be happy to get 10mpg pulling 8k.