With fuel prices of all types steadily on the rise, there are many who are wanting to keep their fuel costs lower.  This includes those who own a diesel truck.  There are a number of different reasons that your diesel truck could be going through extra fuel.  Some of these possibilities are leaks and mechanical problems.  There are a few different options that you have to help you in monitoring your fuel consumption and getting a better idea of where it is all going to.

Things Needed

• A computer and the necessary programs
• dye for the fuel
• a full service garage

First: Technology

Technology can be a great help to you when you are trying to track down where all the fuel you are putting in your diesel truck is going to.  One way that you can do this is to log the number of miles that you travel along with the amount of fuel that you are having to put into your vehicle to keep it running.  This can be put into a computer program and properly calculated.  There is a slightly more advanced version of this that will send the information from your vehicle to the computer program automatically and do the calculations.  Either way, it is something that will help you to better figure out where all your fuel is going to.  With the technology of GPS, you can also see where all the miles have taken you and calculate the difference between the mileage that you are getting in town as opposed to on the highway in your diesel truck.

Second: Old-Fashioned

This is a method that is very basic.  This will include adding a fuel safe dye to your fuel tank.  After this, you will have to have the use of a full service garage so that you are able to run the vehicle until no more dye is left.  This is something that garages have done since far before they were ever able to use a computer to figure out issues like this.  After calculating the amount of time, distance that would have been traveled, and amount of fuel that was in the vehicle, you will come up with your mileage.  This is also a great method for figuring out if there are any leaks anywhere in the fuel system.

Third: Arithmetic

The way that many calculate their mileage is through writing it all down.  This is really simple to do.  Each time you put fuel in your vehicle, you will write down how much you put in and reset your trip odometer.  The next time you stop for fuel, you will write down how much you put in, and how many miles you have traveled since you last put in fuel.  This will let you know how many miles you are getting out of your vehicle for the amount of fuel that you are putting in, and it will also tell you if there is anytime that you are burning more or less of it.