75k mileage update

[john112deere]

For reasons I no longer recall, I've kept very careful track of this truck's fuel usage- as in, every fillup since it rolled off the dealer's lot is in a spreadsheet. ('Cause I could, I guess.)

I'm just a whisker early on 75k, but close enough- these charts cover through 74,840 miles. Overall average (total miles/total gallons) is 19.5 mpg. It's creeping down, but still hard to complain, as EPA window sticker numbers were 15/19.

Details: '09 Ranger Supercab, 4x4, 4.0, 5-speed, 3.73, 235/75-15 (stock-size) tires, mostly dedicated snow-tread. Bone-stock except a tonneau cover. Usually just hauls my butt around, principally rural 2-lanes and interstate.

Graphs should be labelled clearly enough to know what they're showing.

$12,948.80 worth of gas through the tank since I bought it.

 

[fatherdoug]

.57/mile just for gas. That's scary. Sounds like the IRS allotment just barely covers fuel costs, let alone wear and tear, for business purposes.

 

[john112deere]

I make it 17.3 cents/mile for gas.

Still, I don't think I make any money at the $0.5x they reimburse me when I have to use my own vehicle for work.

 

[smokey]

Nice record keeping.

 

[fatherdoug]

I do too on recalculation. Much better.

 

[john112deere]

Still scary to think it's nearly double what I used to figure my gas cost/mile was a decade ago.

'Course, that truck burned a little less gas. (And my annual income has risen by a factor much larger than two in that decade...)

 

[O'Rattlecan]

Ian, I think they call this OCD.

Just kidding, but very interesting data in your record keeping. Thank you for sharing.

Ryan