Archive for April, 2006


Gas Mileage and Pickup Tailgates

2 April 2006

Tailgate up or down? The television show Mythbusters is sometimes interesting, sometimes silly but I caught one yesterday addressing this “what everyone knows” advice.
The often repeated premise is that an open pickup truck bed is bad for gas mileage because it catches the air and creates drag, so the easy, zero cost method for [...]