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| Neil Holmes (Homer)
Registered Member Username: Homer Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 139.142.19.36  Rating: |
Jumped in the bus after working in the shop all day today. Was a balmy -10 today so turned up the furnace and brought out the trip log. We mixed a drink and went thru our trip journal of our five week, cross Canada tour in the Beast this summer. Was very nice to relive the trip from Gibbons Alberta to Halifax NS. A very pleasant 14,000 Kilometer run. Do any other busnuts keep a log book of your journeys? Since we bought the Beast in Sept 08 we keep a log book of all our trips, no matter how short or long. It is nice to go back later to get an instant reminder of people we met, fuel price at the time, temps etc. Living up in the frozen north, we only get a few months of real good touring. May have to start going back to spend winters in Yuma AZ again. Haven't been there in too many years. Think we may have to do that again as we are missing buddies in Algodonas. | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
Registered Member Username: Jackconrad Post Number: 1192 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 74.4.48.228  Rating: N/A |
We keep a mileage log and a fuel log. The mileage log gives the starting and ending mileage as well as the total miles and destination. Every time our coach moves, a new addtion is made to the log. Our fuel log is an Excel spreadsheet. We enter the gallons of fuel, mileage, total cost, cost per gallon, and location. The program calulates the MPG and cost per mile for that tank of fuel as well as totals and overall MPG and cost per mile since we purchased our coach at the bottom of the page . Jack (Message edited by JackConrad on January 15, 2010) | ||
| ED Hackenbruch (Shadowman)
Registered Member Username: Shadowman Post Number: 227 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 75.210.99.54 Rating: N/A |
i also keep a little notebook that i enter the date, place, number or gallons, odometer reading, price per gallon and total amount spent. | ||
| Peter River (Whitebus)
Registered Member Username: Whitebus Post Number: 204 Registered: 4-2009 Posted From: 24.234.166.174  Rating: N/A |
yes, on the computer, every night on each and every trip, along with all the picture that we took, which gets backed up to DVD drive. | ||
| David Dulmage (Daved)
Registered Member Username: Daved Post Number: 272 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 142.46.199.30  Rating: N/A |
My wife keeps a log. DaveD | ||
| Grant Thiessen (Busshawg)
Registered Member Username: Busshawg Post Number: 238 Registered: 10-2007 Posted From: 206.45.93.160  Rating: N/A |
If I kept a log of our fuel my wife would come unglued on how much it costs and se'd end up hitch hiking, haha. Jokes aside, although there is some truth to the previous comment, I did keep a half ### log when we went to Ontario and back, it was good. Then when we went to Sturgis it was not so good, spent alomost as much in fuel as the On. trip and it was half the distance. I believe it was heat , hills WIND etc. | ||
| Neil Holmes (Homer) (Homer)
Registered Member Username: Homer Post Number: 2 Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 139.142.19.36 Rating: N/A |
Sometimes news is good, sometimes not so good. I didn't have an odometer for our first trip to Saskatchewan. Later I installed a new speedometer and odometer. Our second trip to Saskatchewan the log showed 10 to 12 MPG. Pretty good but Sask is pretty flat. Our cross Canada trip averaged about 7.8 MPG. Not going to complain at all at that. Son in laws Ford 1 ton only gets about 10 MPG. Something is screwy with the speedo, It is bang on from 0 - 70 kph, then it just stays there. I tested the speed and odometer with GPS and also with highway test posts. Odometer is right on with highway test posts no mater what speed I go. Any thoughts? | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 757 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.53.153.91  Rating: N/A |
Neil; If you have an electric speedo that is using sensors off the wheel you may have a bad or missing piece on the wheel and that will give you the fluctuation I think you are talking about. Some require 2 and others 4. Starter point. Gomer | ||
| steve wardwell (Steve_wardwell)
Registered Member Username: Steve_wardwell Post Number: 6 Registered: 2-2010 Posted From: 75.202.167.2  Rating: N/A |
we are ex sailors so we keep a log for fuel,miles,start/stop times, the weather,persons aboard, and any happenings along the way. all done with my copilot brides wit so to go back and read our log book is usually a riot...........s........ |
