Am I getting BSed

You'll burn more fuel running 70. He's right. You're putting a lot of stress on that truck running those high elevations. Remember that Vail and Eisesnhower are 10,500 and 11,000 feet, plus the other mountains and then into Utah in the Swell. Burning a lot more fuel and really stressing out the truck, you and whatever it is you're hauling.

 

Go figure. No Truckdriver ever lied. Figure out the mileage. Why would you go to Albuquerque. There are a lot of climbs going that way. It's up hill out of ABQ, Grants, from Gallup pronounced Ga-loop LOL all the way to Flagstaff. It's alwasy upwind from ABQ to Flag too. Then in CA you have Needles averaged out I say you'd use more fuel and 4 more hours.

 

You'll burn more going through 70. I promise.

 

Bull, Albuquerque is 5280 ft and Raton is 8K, Glorieta is 8 or 10 K. Flagstaff is 7000-8000 feet. I was raised in NM and learned to drive in NM-CO-UT and for 2 mountains I wouldn't go around. I'm no flatlander and it won't save you time, I don't care if your truck is 600 or 300 HP. Turbochargers don't care if it's 11K or 5K they ram air in at a rate controlled by the engine not the ambient pressure outside so you develop the same horsepower. Go West young, man Go West. Horace Greely

Remember A promise made is a debt unpaid!

 

I think you're forgetting that for every uphill, there is a downhill. There's no way you would use more fuel driving over 200 miles less.

 

Yeah, good point. I just would rather run the other way. Putting a lot of stress on a truck on 70. And the freight too.

 

Time is a factor too............those extra miles take time!! LOL

I just like running 70......Glenwood Canyon is beautiful...........plus there is a nice little stop in Grand Junction and a great diesel shop there.

 

"Stress on the truck?" Isn't that what gears are for? Take it easy, find a smooth gear, byebye stress, hello fuel economy. I've run both routes, I-70 offers better scenery. I-70 may be tougher in wintertime. And, it's 320 miles from Albuquerque to Flagstaff, all uphill. Mostly all anyway. Man, just ran out of Fontana with 42,000 - that I-15 to I-40 is tough at 100 degrees, my temp guage and fan got a good workout.