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[RC] endurance truck - not loved-but gets us there - Teresa Van Hove

93 Dodge 250 dodge diesel (3/4 ton) stick shift. 12-14 mpg (depends
mainly on cross wind or not) pulling 14 ft long 6'9" high(interior)
bumper hitch steel trailer +pop-up camper.  112,000 miles (12,000 on
rebuilt tranny -turned trip home from vacation into its own
adventure, did receive tremendous hospitality from the independent
mechanic in southern Utah) 

Kristene - you may think you lust for the power we can get; but we
cant buy any tow vehicle here that would come anywheres close to
sipping only 6.x liters to go 100 km.  20 mpg is considered darn
good for a tow vehicle here, --lets see that translates to just over
3 gals per 100 km *3.78 liters -that would be 11.3 liters/100km. 
You do the math for all these 12-14 mpg vehicles. 

my truck is OK.  I certainly dont love it; but I'd have to
completely clean it out to sell it; plus there is the factor that
the truck's job is to to get me to rides, and be lived in while
there.  Feels like it would be a waste to buy a brand new truck and
or camper LQ trailer to take the kind of abuse any one of mine will
get. The only 'luxury' the truck gets is regular oil
change/servicing.  

Horse rescuing truck story - Pulled a major boner once, having made
a wrong turn on way to ride tried to just turn around in meadow
(meadows at home were dry, no rain for weeks --boy that does not
mean anything when you are in the next state!)  Stuck the truck but
good, and it was getting dark so Grey and I had to just camp there
overnight and the next morning I saddled him up and road him a few
miles back to the nearest ph to call a tow truck to winch the truck
'n trailer out of the mud.  The RM let me pull ribbons when I
finally got there and gave me a coffee mug for volunteering.    


Teresa and Grey and Shade

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