I told you, my truck luck! My Cummins was a 5.9 2wd and it got something like 15-16mpg (can’t recall the exact number now, that was like 9 years ago)

Don’t idle, don’t hot rod (my wife says I drive like a grandpa), hand calc on every tank. I always have a toolbox on the back and have wondered about that stealing mpg’s. I have 500-700lbs of tools pretty consistently. Telling ya’ man, I’m that dude that wants good fuel mileage and ends up getting screwed on every truck. I will say that Boerne has become horrible with sitting in traffic & red lights, but even when I go down on straight hwy trips, like to Rockport, my mileage sucks.

When my F-350 was new, it got about 15mpg, then ford had to do a emission update and it went to hell. Not gonna go though the delete hassle, I’m sure it would help though. I almost think it’s running regen too much.

Now I do have a f150 that gets fantastic mileage, but it’s almost worthless for work due to the short bed.

No interest in the heavy payload F150?

Not particularly, I don’t think it will handle the loads that I haul in the bed very well. I’m back to just keeping what I have. Started reading some 7.3 pages on FB and some comments will just about scare a person. I want a new truck, but just don’t like the potential problems with parts now a days. For example, my wife has a 2020 Explorer that has been at the body shop for 7 months because Ford couldn’t provide a plastic piece that goes under the grill, the part finally arrived last week. 7 months of lost warranty

Keep in mind that the 7.3L Gasser will have a higher gear ratio to support the towing capacity... as compared to the Powerstroke.

If you're in the high elevations, you'll need the boosted configuration of the power stroke or Eco boost. There is talk of a boosted 7.3L... that should be fun.

It's not just a Ford issue. Parts from all the manufacturers are scarce and in short supply.

Finally got the Explorer back, took 8 months to get the radiator support. Ford was nice, after all our complaints and threw in an extended warranty that gave us an extra 2 years or 75k miles.

Something isn’t right. Around town I can get 19. Hwy and town 21.

Forgot to mention 4WD on mine which affects mileage. But I didn’t think it would be that much.

I averaged 17mpg around town in my 2013 3.5l. I get 13mpg out of my 6.2l. You wouldn't be getting about the same mileage.

I’ve put just over 20,000 miles on my F250 4x4 long Ed with the 7.3. I consistently average right at 14 mpg. It is my work truck so some towing, lots of in town driving, occasional 100 mile trips. I think it has plants of power but definitely not on the diesel level. My bother has the diesel and it is a race car compared to my truck but he spends $10-15 more per tank of gas and $75 more every oil change, plus def, and fuel filters. In the end we get the exact same thing done in the same time. I never put over 120,000 mile on a truck so I just couldn’t justify spending more on a truck and maintenance.

It could always be worse.

You going down hill to get that much

Both ways.

Is that your Tundra? What does it average pulling your Skeeter?

I have a new fleet truck here at the shop with the 7.3 Ford gas. Its a one ton cab and chassis with a steel flat bed, 4:30 rear end. It stays connected to a 30 foot gooseneck, we are hauling steel to construction sites here in Central Texas. Non CDL, we only tap out around 11,000 on the bed of the trailers to keep all our fleet under 26,000 pounds gross.

So far, so good. Computer is calculating 8 mpg average, that's with the trailer 100% of the time. Just a couple thousand miles on it now, but my drivers say it pulls just fine. We do not make long runs, I'm only 20 miles or so to downtown Austin or Tesla, which is where most my steel has been going. No complaints yet. It took a year to get it and just in time as one of the Power strokes just went back to the shop with emission issues and I'm sure that one of the Cummins will be in the shop shortly for something.