- Pulling a trailer really slows you down significantly, you feel more like a truck driver, trying to run as smoothly as possible.
- Don't trust your satnav (GPS), it will lead you through very difficult to cross territory and of course it doesn't know that you have a trailer behind your car
- If you want to drive economically, then forget the "tempomat", rather go slower up the hill and leverage the gravitation going down. This can save you 20-40% with a trailer, but of course is also true without it. The trailer makes it of course worse, having the aerodynamics of a cube and being almost as big as a house. It roughly doubles the fuel consumption in my case.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Moving car spare parts through half of Europe
Sometimes ideas turn out as being quite inferior. When I decided to drive to London with my car and a trailer I imagined this being a good cost saving approach compared to having roughly a ton of car spare parts transported by a logistics company. Well, on Thursday this week I started and drove roughly 1'000 km to London, took a ferry at Dover and crossed half of London - not the best idea either given the trailer behind my car. But I got there on time, didn't miss the ferry, got the stuff loaded into the trailer, drove back to Ashford, slept in a nice country hotel and then drove again to Dover the next morning. The rest of the day was spent crossing the channel and driving across France. At around 8 pm I crossed the boarder to Switzerland and still got all the stuff unloaded the same evening. So, what did I learn?
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