Gas Milage for 3500 mile road trip

[Stebo19]

I just finished a 3500 mile, 10 state road trip where I drove from So Cal to Missouri. I took the southern route through the desert and plain states on the way out and the northern route in the mountains for the ride back. I tracked my mileage on the Fuelly App and had a total average of 19.87 MPG for the entire trip. About 80% was highway driving from 65-80mph. The best MGP I got on a tank was 23 mpg and I that was all freeway at 65mph. I ran one tank of premium 91 driving similar conditions and actually got .6 less mpg. Other notes, I was driving with a full bed and backseat. It was a great trip and my truck help up like a champ!

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[Tungstenisw]

Great post! love seeing Taco's out in the wild.

 

[Superhereaux]

My family and I will be making a 4 day, 30ish hour trip from South Texas to Ontario, Canada at the end of June. We're aiming for about 8-9 hours a day and then a shorter drive the day we reach our destination.


Any Tacoma specific travel tips?


Unfortunately, we'll have a 16' travel trailer behind us so I'm thinking 8 hours at 65 mph is probably gonna be my daily limit.

 

[IttyBittyFitty]

Should have left on the factory snowplow, you would have got 40 mpg.

 

[TFOUTS]

Should have left on the factory snowplow, you would have got 40 mpg.

That is funny!

 

[LincolnSixAlpha]

I tend to run premium in my when on trips, although not required of course, but prefer it for some reason. That said, like most vehicles, wind, road surface (tire friction) are going to be the biggest detriments to fuel milage. I noticed this back in October when I did a 5K trip from the west to east, and back again. I noticed on certain highways I had excellent fuel economy, and other not that spectacular. Because it was such a long trip I was able to discern that the types of road surfaces was causing me to either have really good fuel milage numbers, or just so-so numbers.

Where I live, her in Phoenix, we have good roads -- for the most part, either asphalt, or concrete but both are smooth and finished well and I generally get good numbers when motoring around the city. Highway, like down to Tuscon, or elsewhere -- crapshoot if I'm in heavy wind.

 

[Gearman]

I just finished a 3500 mile, 10 state road trip where I drove from So Cal to Missouri. I took the southern route through the desert and plain states on the way out and the northern route in the mountains for the ride back. I tracked my mileage on the Fuelly App and had a total average of 19.87 MPG for the entire trip. About 80% was highway driving from 65-80mph. The best MGP I got on a tank was 23 mpg and I that was all freeway at 65mph. I ran one tank of premium 91 driving similar conditions and actually got .6 less mpg. Other notes, I was driving with a full bed and backseat. It was a great trip and my truck help up like a champ!

Curious, how many miles were on the ODO before you started the trip?

Did you notice a sweet spot MPH wise, and what tires are you running and at what PSI.
thanks

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