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Had my truck for 11 days now 
. I filled it right up to the brim and put 2 bottles of fuel injector cleaner in the tank when I was doing it. Have used the truck for work, which is 20.5 miles away, so 41 miles a day round trip. I would say half is country lanes and half is the A34. I have done 80mph on the A34 to clear the engine out as it's only been over from Japan a month, and have driven it nice and steady on the lanes. The fuel gauge dropped to empty today 
, so filled it up.
In the time since I filled it up until today I've done 262.84 miles (423Kms) and it took 11.67 UK Gallons (53.09Lts) to fill it up to the brim again
. The Diesel was priced at 91.9 pence per litre 
.
I have worked out that my truck did 22.52mpg for this period
. I have seen people quote 29-30mpg for their trucks. This makes me think that either my truck is as thirsty as an oil tanker, there is something wrong with it, or it's about normal for this size truck!!!!!
Can you guys give me some mpg figures for your trucks please, so I can compare mine, thanks. I hope it improves otherwise I am left with 6 options.
1. Change jobs to where I live, so I'm not doing the mileage.
2. Get rid of it before I'm broke.
3. Convert it to run on Veg Oil.
4. Keep my Peugeot 106 Diesel that I was going to sell. (60-65mpg)
5. Change jobs to where I live, keep the truck and push bike into work so I don't have to use it during the week.
6. Tap into my companies two 90,000lt Diesel tanks and steal it.
What do you guys think, any ideas greatly appreciated.
By the way, my company runs some trucks from the Hemel Hempstead depot, which obviously have diesel engines, on LNG (Liquid Natural Gas). Is this option available as an alternative to Veg Oil??
Andy
. I filled it right up to the brim and put 2 bottles of fuel injector cleaner in the tank when I was doing it. Have used the truck for work, which is 20.5 miles away, so 41 miles a day round trip. I would say half is country lanes and half is the A34. I have done 80mph on the A34 to clear the engine out as it's only been over from Japan a month, and have driven it nice and steady on the lanes. The fuel gauge dropped to empty today , so filled it up. In the time since I filled it up until today I've done 262.84 miles (423Kms) and it took 11.67 UK Gallons (53.09Lts) to fill it up to the brim again
. The Diesel was priced at 91.9 pence per litre . I have worked out that my truck did 22.52mpg for this period
. I have seen people quote 29-30mpg for their trucks. This makes me think that either my truck is as thirsty as an oil tanker, there is something wrong with it, or it's about normal for this size truck!!!!!Can you guys give me some mpg figures for your trucks please, so I can compare mine, thanks. I hope it improves otherwise I am left with 6 options.
1. Change jobs to where I live, so I'm not doing the mileage.
2. Get rid of it before I'm broke.
3. Convert it to run on Veg Oil.
4. Keep my Peugeot 106 Diesel that I was going to sell. (60-65mpg)
5. Change jobs to where I live, keep the truck and push bike into work so I don't have to use it during the week.
6. Tap into my companies two 90,000lt Diesel tanks and steal it.
What do you guys think, any ideas greatly appreciated.
By the way, my company runs some trucks from the Hemel Hempstead depot, which obviously have diesel engines, on LNG (Liquid Natural Gas). Is this option available as an alternative to Veg Oil??
Andy
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