Can anyone beat this record in a passenger vehicle, in this amount of time?

I had to make a quick road trip to pick up some mining equipment.
Driving my Dodge Ram 2.9L diesel, I departed Seattle area 7:30 PM on Sunday for the Mohave desert northeast of Los Angeles, 2200 miles round trip, got back to Seattle 7:30 this morning (Tuesday).
Total trip was 36 hours, driving time was 33 hours.

Burnt $913 in fuel.
This is a record I am not happy about.
I paid from $5 to $6 a gallon, average was about $5.69

East coast would have been way cheaper

Not by much. Diesel here in Georgia was $4.50 to $5.50+ last weekend.

Well if I did my calculations right you averaged a little over 13mpg that's not very good for that diesel motor.plus i think the motor is a 3.0 Eco-diesel not a 2.9 i would of thought you should of averaged around 20mpg.higher traveling empty and less loaded.

2006, dually, flatbed, 2.9L Cummins, and on the way back north I was hauling a load. Your math is right though, averaged about 13 mpg.

Where are you mining and what for? Heading out to the golden beaches of Nome?

Should be a 5.9 cummins think in 2007 that came out with the 6.7.

Washington.
Hardrock, underground, sulfide gold bearing vein; not the exciting type of mine where you see visable, native gold at the end of the day.
But is is high-grade, average 1.25 ounces of gold per ton. A ton of ore is about 10 cubic feet (in situ).
Also contains 5-7 ounces of silver per ton.

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