There has been much discussion about fuel mileage on this board and a lot of discussion about different problems and I wonder if some of that has to do with whether people are mostly highway or city drivers.

So this poll is to see if there is a majority that drives "mostly highway" or "mostly city". Rather than ask those 2 questions, it's probably more exact to have you do this:

Take your total mileage and divide it by the total hours on your truck and put your answer in the poll. For example, if you have 25,000 miles on your truck and you have 500 hours on the engine, then you average 50mph.

 

9104 Miles / 145.5 EHs = 62.57 MPEH

 

How would you know the hours?

 

i rarely get over 55-60 mph. mostly above 35-40 mph. it is a heavy duty dump truck, that hauls most of it's time, on rural roads.

 

Sorry Brian - I thought all the PSD's had an engine hour gauge. Is it only the Lariats?

 

My '03 doesn't have an hour meter. I think that it is on the '05 and newer.

I totally guessed at my average based on my driving history being mostly in town to work and back.

Our Honda Ody has an average mileage display on it and it typically ends up around 30 MPH after being averaged over a few tanks.

Using my GPS trip meter function on my highway trips, it is pretty hard to average over 50 MPH when you have any stops in the city for fuel and potty breaks.

 

It is hard to average over 50 and I'm surprised by the largest group being over 55mph. If that's right (and people aren't just guessing), these folks are doing 70mph almost all the time and probably doing 90% of their driving on the highway.

I do 90%+ of my driving on the interstates and run 65 to 75 and I only average 52mph.

 

i average about 55-60mph everyday. Most of it is main roads, with little or no stop and go traffic. The most i ever averaged was 88mph for a 31mile trip.

 

Overall average is 31.1 mph. Thats 50% country , 25% city, 25% freeway

 

I average 55-70mph on the road. I have a 100 mile round trip (highway mileage) to work Monday thru Friday. I've been more conservative on the road recently and my last two tanks have averaged 17+ miles-per-gallon.

I usually average 70mph and average 15 miles-per-gallon per tank.

I always use cruise even during around town driving when possible.

Sorry, no hour meter on my rig.

 

This is my daily driver & work is 30 miles on I-5. Posted is 65. Rogue River Route is 45. 80% of my driving is on I-5, at the posted limit. Towing is at 62.

You need to get up to 80 on your poll. I bet you'd be supprised how many are going that fast.

 

One my planned PM's was changing both diesel fuel filters at 10,000 miles. So when it turned this number, checked the hour meter and showed exactly 250 hours or an average of 40 MPH average.

The fuel filter change was uneventful thanks to good instructions posted on this forum. Only problem was finding 90 degree 6 mm allen head. Had a straight 6mm, but could not get that into the socket, because of drive line interference.

 

yea you should up the poll to 80-85mph. Today when i was on the thruway goin to albany i was in the fast lane goin 92mph and there was cars passing me in the middle lane. And the slow lane was goin about 78-80mph and its a 65zone. Ive never seen everyone on the road driving as fast as i did today, it was insane.

 

Guys, by definition I don't think the orginal poster was asking what speed you usually cruise at, but was asking for data from those users with 05/06 trucks with hourmeters.

The REAL calculation, even if you cruise on the highway at 90 all day, will be far, far, far lower. This will take into consideration any idling, low speed driving, ect.- ALL driving done in all conditions.

One full hour of idling in combination with 2 full hours of running 90 mph will bring the average speed down to 60 mph.

 

3878/115.7 = 33.5

I'm suprised to see so many answers of 55 mph+ . Must be a ton of hwy miles.

I don't think you can participate in this poll if you don't have an hour meter.