My New 2019

[CurtisScrugham]

That should be accounted for in the algorithm with a factory tank.

I guess not having DTE on my early trucks, I don't pay too much attention to it. I ROM it minus 100 miles pretty easy. Nothing wrong with using it though.



Exactly right... I'm traveling across country AND going to places that are off the beaten path. My RV buddies still work, seldom travel more than 200 miles with heavy RVs so they have not much use for extended range and they don't care about fuel prices. Each of the last two 7,500 mile excursions I saved several hundred dollars using Gas Buddy.

Brothers, carrying extra fuel is just an option fo folks who want extended range and/or fuel price options. It's all good.

One of my buddies came out to help trim trees, so I'm cooking 20 oz. rib eyes on Mesquite and some beers.

Finally, isn't it great in America, bid bad Ram diesels, big RVs and great places to go to.

Best to all!

cheers, Ron

Amen! - and by the way - U.S. Air Force 20 years here. Getting ready to go RV full time and be fully retired

 

[Wiredawg]

Amen! - and by the way - U.S. Air Force 20 years here. Getting ready to go RV full time and be fully retired

Congrats for serving! I think for me, having been all over the world, being in America and seeing it is the BEST ever. I don't care if I ever fly again AND seeing the US at ground level is a wonderful way of life.

Here's to ya brother! As my old hero, Roy Rogers used to say: "Happy Trails To You!"

Ron AKA Won

 

[Wiredawg]

With that monstrosity you call a camper that has more sq ft then my first home.......bwwaaahhhaahaaa


FWIW, my first home was a real fixmeupper. Old run down farm hands house. One bedroom, one bath, living room/dining room all in one. And. that. was. it. At 20 yrs old I couldn't have been happier to be on my own

Just rufflin your feathers, Won

Wuffle, wuffle! I grew up here in TX in a mobile home, and loved it. I bought my first house after I was in the AF 18 years. Some of the dwellings I stayed in weren't great structures, but were great memories. A house is a place, a home is a nest! Again, it's all good. Heck, I came in the AF in 1976, 6 days out of high school, learned a trade, found my soul mate, got a college degree, and met the best folks in the world, around the world, both military and civilians, and I couldn't be happier then and now. LIFE IS GOOD!

I'd love to meet y'all, so if down in the San Antonio TX area, let me know and I'll have out to my piece of heaven.

Cheers, Ron

 

[Newsa]

4. An ELASTIC fuel tank.

With an elastic fuel tank you can pump as much fuel as you desire into it, all the way to the point where the vehicle looks like a pot bellied piggy dragging its tummy on the ground, of course better utilizing the fuel tank's skid plate that normally just dangles in mid air. And, it would always be a full tank of fuel, no matter how much fuel you put into it. You can add precisely as much as you desire at any time. Never too much; never too little (unless you run out).

Oh Magoo, you've done it again!

I love this edit. But you may have to call it a fuel bladder. It can't be called a tank.

 

[RVTRKN]

Wuffle, wuffle! I grew up here in TX in a mobile home, and loved it. I bought my first house after I was in the AF 18 years. Some of the dwellings I stayed in weren't great structures, but were great memories. A house is a place, a home is a nest! Again, it's all good. Heck, I came in the AF in 1976, 6 days out of high school, learned a trade, found my soul mate, got a college degree, and met the best folks in the world, around the world, both military and civilians, and I couldn't be happier then and now. LIFE IS GOOD!

I'd love to meet y'all, so if down in the San Antonio TX area, let me know and I'll have out to my piece of heaven.

Cheers, Ron

I entered the Army in 76, got out in 80. I couldn't see going 20 years in the volunteer Army. Regan sure made it better though, but I had just got out to see him win the election. Carter on the other hand F'ed everything up. Thanks for your service, to everyone who served.

 

[brucejohnson]

I love this edit. But you may have to call it a fuel bladder. It can't be called a tank.

Ohheckno!!! Looks and sounds too much like full bladder...piques my interest in visiting the nearest stand of trees with visions of doing the pee-pee dance in my head... 'sides that, the fuel bladder isn't very stretchy at all. When emptied it is still large, albeit deflated, laying there like a flat blob of afterbirth, void of original content. Then the scavenging 'copters fly in and carry it away...

 

[gsbrockman]

The negative to the larger tanks, is the cost to fill em. My C&C had the 54 Gallon tank, and when it got to a 1/3 of a tank it was always over a $100.00.

Maybe my screenshots will make you feel a little better.....

 

[TFucili]

'Ol White Lightning does pretty dang good, Greg! My '19 has been hovering in the 13+ range, mixed driving, and EMPTY. I hope it loosens up some. Have you talked with any hotshotters running '19s? From the little bit I have read and heard, it seems the new HOs have given up the MPG advantage the Cummins traditionally had over the V-8s.

 

[Wiredawg]

'Ol White Lightning does pretty dang good, Greg! My '19 has been hovering in the 13+ range, mixed driving, and EMPTY. I hope it loosens up some. Have you talked with any hotshotters running '19s? From the little bit I have read and heard, it seems the new HOs have given up the MPG advantage the Cummins traditionally had over the V-8s.

Tom,
Stuart Brandt reported seeing 18MPG, but that could have been instant going down hill. My 17 5500 shows great MPG numbers coasting on instant readout. His numbers towing, 9MPG if I recall right, is towing the 16Klb 5er. Could be running 75MPH pulling his towing MPGs down.

Cheers, Ron

 

[Cummins12V98]

DRW's simply don't get the the mileage the 2500/3500 SRW's do, not even close. These people claiming 18-20 freeway mileage at 75 or 13 average towing 28k combined at 70 are simply full of Barbra Streisand!!!

 

[gsbrockman]

'Ol White Lightning does pretty dang good, Greg! My '19 has been hovering in the 13+ range, mixed driving, and EMPTY. I hope it loosens up some. Have you talked with any hotshotters running '19s? From the little bit I have read and heard, it seems the new HOs have given up the MPG advantage the Cummins traditionally had over the V-8s.

No, Tom.....I’ve not talked to anyone hotshotting with a 2019 in either the pickup line or Cab & Chassis lines. I do, however, see lots more 2019 4500/5500 C&C’s on the road, but they’re going the opposite direction! Maybe I’ll get the opportunity to converse with an owner at a fuel stop eventually.

 

[JR]

Bad picture, and a little off topic but I got a shot of two trucks hauling a car wedge this morning as I got on the freeway. One was a F450 the other a Ram 5500. Both were white and at first I thought they were running together, but as I closed the gap the Ram passed the Ford and over the course of the next few miles put a real pace on him. He hung with me pretty good running around 70 mph for the next 60+ miles.
Ford was nowhere to be found

 

[TFucili]

...All of a sudden in a wink of an eye
A Dodge Cab & Chassis passed us by
I said, "Boys, that's a mark for me!"
By then the taillight was all you could see...

 

[Cummins12V98]

This is my favorite hauler pic!!! Love to share it with the "F" guys.

It takes a RAM to haul two Ford's to a Ford Dealer!!!

 

[JR]

Theres only one scenario where I don't get pleasure in seeing a Ford on the hook of a Ram - when it's one of my own! Over the last 10 years, that's been a few times.

This one was when the wife took the kids and met her family at Hershey Park, not 10 miles out on the return leg one of the COP went TU. Wife didn't know what was going on other than SHTF (like all my acronyms? ) aannd I've yet to receive my doctorate in over the phone diagnostics, so I hooked up ol Red and headed west about 4.5 hours.... after working a 14 hour nightshift shutdown.

Good times!

 

[AH64ID]

Theres only one scenario where I don't get pleasure in seeing a Ford on the hook of a Ram - when it's one of my own! Over the last 10 years, that's been a few times.


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This one was when the wife took the kids and met her family at Hershey Park, not 10 miles out on the return leg one of the COP went TU. Wife didn't know what was going on other than SHTF (like all my acronyms? ) aannd I've yet to receive my doctorate in over the phone diagnostics, so I hooked up ol Red and headed west about 4.5 hours.... after working a 14 hour nightshift shutdown.

Good times!

Too funny... I looked at the pic before reading the verbiage and thought that looked like that area. Lo and behold I wasn’t too far off.

I’ve spent some time at Ft Indiantown Gap and really like that part of PA. It’s one of the few places I’d live outside of Idaho.

 

[JR]

Too funny... I looked at the pic before reading the verbiage and thought that looked like that area. Lo and behold I wasn’t too far off.

I’ve spent some time at Ft Indiantown Gap and really like that part of PA. It’s one of the few places I’d live outside of Idaho.

Alot of people don't realize just how pretty parts of PA and NY really are. My personal favorite after traveling extensively through both is Western NY. Barely an hour from us and we frequent there at least one or two times a year camping. The wife and I have both commented how we could relocate there. Good people and good country. It's a shame the politicians on the island have fiscally ruined the state.

 

[Wayne M.]

It's a shame the politicians on the island have fiscally ruined the state.

Where’s that?

 

[Wayne M.]

TF, last night we shot out to Steel Stacks in Bethlehem for the Christmas village out there. Just as I was getting back on 78, there was an all makes used car lot, and I craned my neck real bad ‘cause I couldn’t believe my eyes. ‘Twas a ‘19 SRW Cummins. White!
I’m going to try n google that lot and maybe I can find the listing.

Yes indeed! The Ram is the darling of the hotshot world right now! I used to get excited to see a Ram working, but it’s become quite common.

 

[Wayne M.]

TF, last night we shot out to Steel Stacks in Bethlehem for the Christmas village out there. Just as I was getting back on 78, there was an all makes used car lot, and I craned my neck real bad ‘cause I couldn’t believe my eyes. ‘Twas a ‘19 SRW Cummins. White!
I’m going to try n google that lot and maybe I can find the listing.

Well look here. They have a BUNCH of ‘19’s! Why is this?
https://www.starcarpreowned.com/newandusedcars.aspx?clearall=1