cracknut

Heh - was just thinking the exact same thing. Must be a typo.

will010100

It was certainly an extraordinary trip, and I've never had the patients to repeat it. We absolutely didn't drive 65 mph. That was the maximum speed and that was normally down hill. In addition to me and the F250, there was a V10 Excursion pulling a large enclosed trailer. We drove slow up hills, coasted down, conserved momentum wherever possible, and probably averaged high 50s. To put things in perspective, it normally takes 6 hours to get to Barber from Charlotte, and it took us about 7.5-8 hours of drive time if I recall. In total it took around 9 hours for food and restroom stops, a sub-10-min pit stop to change a flat trailer tire, and an epic fuel stop to fill the two gas guzzlers and about 15 5-gal race tanks.

I didn't mean to deceive anyone to thinking the mileage was that good. The point was that if you have a 3/4-ton truck with enclosed trailer and reduce speed to make driving it affordable, you can also get extraordinary mileage out of the Durango and lightweight open trailer driving it the same way.

In full disclosure, it was 26.6 mph. The other two drivers saw the dash readout.

LeonV

To bring some closure to this thread, I finally bought a trailer a few weeks back:



Towed it with a buddy's sweet '75 Chevy van, definitely got a lot of looks on the drive. Given that I've decided to rent/borrow trucks for the time being I went for a larger and heavier trailer than I was initially shooting for, it's a steel 8.5X24 so it weighs ~4000lb empty. Should do the trick.