Slowmover,
Cresting grades, engine load, no lugging. Not the posted limit. I'm not in a race hooked up.
I-77 NB from NC to Fancy Gap VA is the big grade slow truck lane NB and truck run offs SB. I run 5th and pick up a few degrees engine temp crest it back into 6th and the temps come right back down.
WV Tpke, add some construction around Beckley and that just adds some more "fun" to it.
Towing mileage. 1238 miles all towing 107.7 gal 11.49 MPG hand calculated. No cruise while towing.
We made an empty run of 304 miles 16.109 gal 18.87 MPG hand calculated, cruise at posted when possible.
Truck is stock size LT265/70R17 Continental Terrain Contact HT
AS just got new Michelin Agilis 16"
I have yet to make a 3 pass over a scale, someday possibly. A nicely tuned Equal-I-Zer keeps us connected.
I just heard about the Jordan recently an interesting old make it happen controller but never seen one.
Here's a truckers video of I-77 to Fancy Gap. The video starts to show the grae around the 3 min mark at VA MM 1.
Gary
Thanks, your rig close enough to mine that it’s a decent comp. And I figured you drove in a manner similar (you do).
Hadn’t considered that tire. As it’s time for third tire set at 250k I’m reading around again. Am using BRIDGESTONE Duravis 500 as default.
Equalizer-brand truly not worth it, you know. Can-Am and some other A/S dealers won’t sell much less install them. (A/S not traditional full-frame, etc., is that problem: stiff pickup springs + EQ + A/S A-frame attach).
Three-Pass Scale Method worth the few minutes with phone app; axle slide also a good way to look at trailer tire loads; get scalemaster help.
Only “real” problem with Fancy Gap grade is fog. Almost all cars run the grade too fast under any conditions, but the REALLY dumb truckers do as well. Fog makes it more “interesting”, therefore. Plus, truck stops at either end are ALWAYS a pain to use besides constant traffic.
F-G is a grade where I plan anything N from Charlotte to make my stop nearer Fort Chiswell, VA in that 130-miles or so. No stops, and best time of day. Straight-thru.
That entire route is full of big trucks. If you don’t have a quality CB (permanent roof mount antenna) that set of junctions from those Interstates can have real problems. I took an extended (and very easy detour) around a construction delay over an hour in length a few months back below F-G. Gained 30-45” on those who sat.
No more is it a good idea in this country to be a sitting duck in traffic
with no way out. With warning more than 20-miles out it wasn’t hard with Commercial Atlas, GPS
and local drivers to figure the best diversion route. You could have had one shorter than the one I settled on.
WAZE or Google Maps tell me which way the stupids will try to divert. They’ll make it worse. No thanks.
And the day their Jesus-phones don’t work, one wants the CB plus the experience of how to use it.
1979 “experience” doesn’t count. Recent, and ongoing, does. And a bad radio is no help. Who’s got time for hand-holding with what’s on the line? Best radio rig = best response rate.
Pretty much that whole route will be un-ending small disasters.
The road dips you avoid today (with that hitch brand) you won’t so easily be able to get around once on side roads when the Interstate becomes a series of parking lots.
Disconnecting it just means you’ve equally compromised braking, etc.
TUSON the brake controller brand to have today. See reviews on Mr Truck. As well, their electronic trailer-mount anti-sway.
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