Anyone have a rec for x country auto transport?
12-18-2007, 08:17 AM
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Open trailers are fine, just depends on how much you care about your car. Hail, falling ice from
the open trailer itself, etc make shipping a car on an open car hauler to any cold weather state a bit of a gamble in the winter.
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12-18-2007, 03:49 PM
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YGM, Back! Sorry, bro, but the transport has to at least equal the fuel bill (not 1/5th) ; )
Why'd you sell the BMW?
What will we see you driving this year?
Merry Christmas,
Mike S
What will we see you driving this year?
Merry Christmas,
Mike S
12-19-2007, 06:21 PM
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heh, can't me much worse than the "rigs" we are driving.
How many miles are you getting to the tank, Bill? I just finished up tank #2 . . . ugh. 13.8mpg is my best so far (50/50 mix of highway and city driving). I've refilled both tanks at 185 miles, and trip computer is saying 25 miles to empty.
12-20-2007, 09:50 AM
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Ummm, likely just a bit more. : ) Info inside
To drive an S4 from Chicago to Seattle on the highway at 16mpg takes 150 gallons to get to Seattle.
The S4, running Super at 3:25, would cost $487.50 each way.
Round trip would be $975
The rig gets between 5 and 7mpg (loaded or empty really makes no difference. The difference is the trailer air drag. Trailer can be full of 12,000 lbs and truck full of 4,000 lbs and the milage is the same as the truck and trailer empty), depending on elevation, passes and speed.
Running 70mph to Seattle, which I've done, I get about 5.7mpg. That's 421 gallons each way, or 842 gallons round trip.
In other words, the truck is about 2.8 times worse on MPG.
Then throw in that diesel is about .20 per gallon on average more expensive than Super, and the cost goes up significantly.
Round trip in S4 - $975
Round trip in truck - $2,947
Now consider the generator needs 10 gallons per day to keep you warm/cold, fridge running, etc and you pick up another 80 gallons of diesel or $280.
The truck also holds 240 gallons of diesel, so it costs between $850-1100 to fill up, depending on diesel prices.
Another crazy statistic is the truck would burn over 6,400lbs of fuel from Chi to Sea and back.
S4 would burn about 2,400 lbs.
Our fuel bill for the truck, annually, is around $75-80K per year.
When fuel goes up 10%, it costs me $7,500.
When fuel goes up 10% on a car driver, driving the avg 12K per year in a 20mpg car, they spend an extra $180 or 15 per month.
Mike S
The S4, running Super at 3:25, would cost $487.50 each way.
Round trip would be $975
The rig gets between 5 and 7mpg (loaded or empty really makes no difference. The difference is the trailer air drag. Trailer can be full of 12,000 lbs and truck full of 4,000 lbs and the milage is the same as the truck and trailer empty), depending on elevation, passes and speed.
Running 70mph to Seattle, which I've done, I get about 5.7mpg. That's 421 gallons each way, or 842 gallons round trip.
In other words, the truck is about 2.8 times worse on MPG.
Then throw in that diesel is about .20 per gallon on average more expensive than Super, and the cost goes up significantly.
Round trip in S4 - $975
Round trip in truck - $2,947
Now consider the generator needs 10 gallons per day to keep you warm/cold, fridge running, etc and you pick up another 80 gallons of diesel or $280.
The truck also holds 240 gallons of diesel, so it costs between $850-1100 to fill up, depending on diesel prices.
Another crazy statistic is the truck would burn over 6,400lbs of fuel from Chi to Sea and back.
S4 would burn about 2,400 lbs.
Our fuel bill for the truck, annually, is around $75-80K per year.
When fuel goes up 10%, it costs me $7,500.
When fuel goes up 10% on a car driver, driving the avg 12K per year in a 20mpg car, they spend an extra $180 or 15 per month.
Mike S
