Trailer rigs/ fuel mileage?

[katrina]

We have a 2004, Chevy 4500. Duramax with a allison transmission. It gets 12 to 16 miles per gallon. It has exhaust brake on the engine that is really nice. After having this I wouldn't want another pickup type..
And a titan 24 ft trailier with the rubber floors again wouldn't want another type..

[Ranchy]

We usually use my 4WD pickup to pull our 16 foot stock trailer.

The trailer is probably as old as I am, the pickup is a 95 Chevy 1500. It gets about 22 mpg without the trailer, around 16 mpg with. Really, the only difference I notice about pulling the trailer, is you have to shift to lower gears to climb the mountains, than you do if you aren't pulling it.

That's the only trailer we've ever pulled with the pickup.......

[Heel Fly]

2002 and 2004 Dodge Cummins
'02 gets 21 to 22 empty and the best loaded was 18. The '04 gets worse mileage. The 02 pulls like a house on fire, I just love it , until we go across the pature OH is that thing rough.
We pull a 22' Titan. As for a steel trailer out performing al. HA our trailer has more cracks then a convention of plumbers!! The bottom 6" has rusted thru because they Rhino lined the inside but not the outside. Looking around at some of the neighbors Titans' they are all doing the same thing. We are going allum. when we finally kill this one.

[IL Rancher]

We have a Chevy dually with an allision and a duramax... 2005. Pull a 24 foot Exis trailer.. As long as we aren't driving through a huge headwind we get about 12-13 loaded but I do drive 65+ with it... If I drop to 60 or so I get much better milage. Unloaded and not driving like an idiot I get close to 20 mpg but it is usally around 16 or so for the tank as I do a lot of 2 mile drives and stuff like that. All I know is that at much over 65 mpg and unloaded it will shake your teath out... It seams to be getting better milage the more miles we put on it.. Heck, we only have 17k on it, still breaking it in.

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

1993 F350.......still kickin at just over 300,000 miles on it, she gets about 15 goin down the highway empty, and about 11 pullin a trailer. Whether that trailer is the horse trailer which is a 26ft S&H gooseneck, or the beat up ole cattle trailer that's a 20 ft.
I don't drive it much anymore since I got my lil toyota for my local runnin around.

[floyd]

I have 4.10 final drives so fuel economy little less. 10-11 loaded 14 empty.

Guy told me dont run your aluminum trlr empty & it won't crack as bad.

Big difference betewwn steel & aluminum. 16 steel featherlite..#4200. 20 foot Charmac...#3800.

[OldDog/NewTricks]

Was in Ca. DVM today - - A friend that worke there said there is a run on people getting their single horse trailer reg. cheeper to pull - - Tomarrow I'll get in our junk pile for ours

No More Big Stocktrailer

[RoperAB]

Well I have kind of decided on an alunimun Bumper pull.
Now I just have to decide on either a open stock or slant load and the size, example 12foot to 18 foot or something in between.
Im just wondering what will have the best resell value? Im thinking a two horse slant load with a tack room because you just dont seem to see many of the bigger bumper pulls going down the road anymore.
What are your thoughts?

[Faster horses]

I think a bumper pull DRAGS, and a gooseneck PULLS.

[floyd]

Go with gooseneck

[RoperAB]

I dont have enough truck really to pull a gooseneck.
The gooseneck I just sold had steel floors and was really heavy. It was only 14 feet not including the lenght of the gooseneck but gosh when I was hauling a friends 16 foot BP I could not believe the difference. The bumper pull hauled so easy that I had to keep looking in my mirrors to see if it was still back there.
With the goosenecks your pulling all that big gooseneck area that is really just wasted space unless your going to sleep up there. Plus with a 5th wheel it ties up your bed space. Even when your not pulling a trailer the hitch is in the way. Yes I know you can buy hidden hitches but my truck is 25 YO and I dont really want to pay big bucks for another hitch. It already has a bumper hitch.
So thats my situation.
What are your thoughts?
Im thinking a two horse,slant load with tack area will have the best resale value as far as BPs go because if somebody wants a bigger trailer they will most likely buy a gooseneck. But for me a plain old 16 foot stock trailer with a 7 foot ceiling would be ideal.
My concern is fuel mileage and I could make due with a two horse.
Plus lots of times I could go places with a two horse that I could not go with a bigger trailer, example through more snow over bigger hills on ranch trails.
What are your thoughts?

[Soapweed]

Bumper pulls work just fine. We do usually pull them with one-ton pickups, but you never know they are even back there. They can get through much rougher country, and as you say RoperAB, the pickup box is free for other uses. We have some eight-foot panels that can be carried around in a pickup box, so a small corral can be set up on location.

We have a 24-foot Titan gooseneck stock trailer that gets used pretty hard, but if I was only going to have one trailer for all uses, it would be a 6' x 16' plain jane stock trailer, at least six and a half feet tall. This type trailer isn't really a popular fad anymore, so if a person wants a new one, it almost has to be special ordered. Another thing I would definitely get if ordering a new one, is sliding gates both on the back and in the center divider. They come in handy very often.