If you drive smart, you can more than save the increase in gas prices with efficiency. Most people that drive my size RV (a 33ft class A with a Ford V8 460) get about 5-7mpg. If you limit your speed to 50 mph on the highways and time traffic lights so you don’t come to a full stop, start slowly, etc., you can get the 12 mpg I got on a trip.
Works with cars/trucks pulling a trailer too.
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You're very right. Last year, on a trip back from Wildwood, I was very ill, and my wife had to drive the RV home (yes, with the trailer, and yes, the first time she ever drove the RV). Our RV is a 29-foot class C, with a Ford 464 gas engine.
I never calculated the actual mileage, but we got home with WAY more gas left in the tank than when I drive on that same stretch. May have been less traffic than normal (yeah, right, we're talking about NJ, NY, CT on a Sunday afternoon/evening here). Most likely, she was just driving slower, with a lighter foot than I have.
EDIT: Oh, we were also pulling someone else's boat, which was also a Hobie 16, but was on a Trailex (we have a galvanized trailer). That couldn't account for gas savings, could it?
Mike
