Wanted to do this with the Lil' Big Rig...
Guys,
Yesterday I worked from 7:15 am to 11 pm moving my son to an apartment for college.
I wanted to use the recently hitched Lil' Big Rig to haul this load.
I'm so obsessed with the Mirage, I want to do EVERYTHING with it. But when I realized there was going to be so much stuff that at some point I couldn't keep stacking it up on the trailer because stuff would start breaking other stuff, I decided to use my truck. My truck is a very useful vehicle. The load in that trailer may not look like much, but it is because it was loaded by someone with high Tetris skills ... me. I'm betting the weight of that is more than most would recommend being pulled by a Mirage. But I bet it would have done it. It was very balanced, the tongue weight wasn't huge.
However, there was a portion of the bed that was very fragile, and kind of long. And it wasn't going to fit in the Mirage. So after all the mind games, it was decided the truck was REQUIRED. The dark / wood structure below is light and fragile.
And it turns out, I filled up the entire cab of the truck. The backseat is totally filed in this picture. And the passenger floor board and seat has all my tool boxes under pillows and blankets.
The truck rode like a dream. I took it smooth and calm, as I didn't want to scatter his bedroom furnishings all over the interstate. The truck was smooth and efficient. I'm going to guess the truck averaged a skosh over 20 mpg loaded like that. It has hauled WAY heavier. But I was a little surprised at how the truck seemed to do this with complete ease. It is Cummins powered, has a 6 speed manual and is a 4x4 long bed.
What a day. I also puked a bunch of times (I know you all wanted to know that), and had muscle cramps. I drank a lot of water during the course of the day (the package of water pictured), but it was as if the water was roadblocked in my stomach. My pukes were just water pukes. Not even gross. Maybe I was having heat exhaustion or something.
Late in the day I had to make a 2nd run with some things I didn't notice and / or forgot. I did that in the Mirage. Helluva a couple vehicles (truck and Mirage).
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View my fuel log 2020 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 42.4 mpg (US) ... 18.0 km/L ... 5.6 L/100 km ... 50.9 mpg (Imp)