Posted by the tractor vet on March 10, 2022 at 09:16:52 from (108.220.145.239):
In Reply to: How much gas posted by larry@stinescorner on March 10, 2022 at 05:42:26:
Back in my youth when i first sat behind the wheel of a big truck It was a B 60 Mack with the big thremodyne 6 cylinder gas engine that pulled a fifty ton Rodgers lowboy and it hauled up to 50 ton . I hauled two big loads with it , first was the new D 9G fully dressed that was a little over 45 ton and a brand new I H T D 30 that was heavier then the 9 And she had a drinking problem . it would avg 3.5 MPG and carried 150 gallon in two 75 gallon tanks . Back then not much of the interstate system was built because we were just getting cranked up . My first long move was from the main shop down to the Marshaling yard around 290 some miles and that took over 13 hours back then and by the time i got there we were around a 1/4 of a tank. on fuel. But big truck gas at just about everywhere was between 16and 19 cents a gallon and if the company had and account or ya paid cash usually ya got 3 cents off. My uncle's first Semi was a 900 Dodge with a 413 gas burner and it was in the same ball park of the 3.5 mpg and it had twin 100's to fill .
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