Is this normal or is my ford ranger fuel gauge stuck/broken?

I recently purchased a 2007 ford ranger, and i do not know much of how its fuel gauge works yet. I filled it up for the first time a couple days ago and drove it about 35 miles since, and the fuel gauge still shows full. The gauge shows empty when i turn off the truck and then upon starting it up returns tot he full position like normal. Is this normal for ford rangers, or otherwise what could be wrong? Also what would be the range on a full tank for this type of truck?

Fuel gauges are notoriously inaccurate things.

My Toyota doesn't move from "full" for about 50 miles. Then when it says 1/2 there's only about 1/3 left.

Drive for a hundred or so miles and it should start dropping.

I would say this is normal, my guage stays on full for about 50km(30mi) in my ranger with the small gas tank (58L or 15gal). I would assume you have the bigger tank which is right around 20gal, if you assume 20mpg then 400miles should be easy to get out of a tank as minimum, probably close to 500miles or so depending on you engine and other configuration could be more or less

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