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04-30-2011, 03:15 PM
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Tiffin Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Louisiana
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What's your speed limit
How many of you drive your motorhome on the freeway at 70 or above i usually keep it at around 65 mph 
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04-30-2011, 03:19 PM
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Senior Member
Texas Boomers Club
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Mo/Texas
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63-65 is the sweet spot/comfort zone for our rig. Much over 65 and the mileage will drop and so will my comfort zone. What's the hurry.
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04-30-2011, 03:22 PM
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Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2010
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we try
we aim for 62 and usualy stay pretty close
works pretty good if you can cruise fast enough you don't get run over by trucks and are not constantly passing it works pretty well
besides at 62 we get about 9.4 MPG with a 400 cummins
hope this helps
good luck
Trouble
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04-30-2011, 03:28 PM
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 1,499
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60 to 62 keeps away the gas pump blues (ya I know).
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2000 Allegro 454/Workhorse P32/TST/Crossfire
Life is a DIY project, so own less and live more 
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04-30-2011, 03:33 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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60 to 62 mph is a nice steady pace for my 3126E Cat. Average just over 10 mpg at those speeds 
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2001.5 Fleetwood Discovery 37U 330HP Cat
Toad-2008 Yamaha Royal Star Tour Delux
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04-30-2011, 03:39 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Georgia
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For me it's 5 to 10 over speed limit in MH and 10 to 20 over in car, but I don't drive a hybrid. Just keeping with traffic.
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04-30-2011, 03:43 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Northwest Indiana
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Pulling a 2003 Caravan at about 58-60mph and I got about 8.5 mpg. I even double checked it since I figured I miscalculated. Tried going about 65 and it dropped to about 6mpg.
Like a previous poster said, what's the hurry?
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04-30-2011, 04:07 PM
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Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Mcdonough, Ga.
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I always drive about 62 MPH. It gives good mileage and makes you look smart, because at 62 you slow down some for traffic and hills. This makes your average speed about 60 MPH. That is a mile a minute. So when my better half says how long to the next town, I look at the mileage, If it's 30 miles I say 30 minutes and she thinks I am a genuis.
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04-30-2011, 04:34 PM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 1,003
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Speed
I drive the RPM 2100 = is 58 MPH
seldom I drive 60.... No need to give my money to the Oilcompanies
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04-30-2011, 04:58 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Fort walton Beach Fl
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70 to 72 mph in my 011 Phaeton. Unless I am sight seeing I like to get going, if seeing something new I do around 60 or so.
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04-30-2011, 05:00 PM
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Location: Litchfield Park, Arizona
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Quote:
Originally Posted by trouble&rose
we aim for 62 and usualy stay pretty close
works pretty good if you can cruise fast enough you don't get run over by trucks and are not constantly passing it works pretty well
besides at 62 we get about 9.4 MPG with a 400 cummins
hope this helps
good luck
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Ditto here but your mpg makes me want to slit my wrists. I get 7.1 with the same engine and about the same amount of coach.  Are you towing?
Rick
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04-30-2011, 05:40 PM
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Location: Freeport, ME
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62 mph which is 1450 RPm and the sweet spot for my Detroit Diesel. Not the speed for the best MPG but I fall to sleep any slower. At 55 mph I feel like I can get up out of the seat and walk around for a little bit. I do know that at 55 mph on a no wind day and a flat road I get 8 mpg and for every one mph increase I lose .1 mpg. For some reason it always seems like I have a headwind.
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2004 Monaco Signature 44' Conquest. Detroit 60
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04-30-2011, 05:42 PM
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club Nor'easters Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Aug 2007
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50 to 60 maybe 65 if I'm going down a grade before another hill and I don't need gas to do it
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04-30-2011, 05:44 PM
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Senior Member
Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 360
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I try hard to flow with the traffic. Usually in the slowest lane, but if I pass I try to get up to the passing lane speed.
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