Will it ever make you give up your truck or will you just adjust your budget elsewhere?

I wouldn't give mine up for anything, I'd starve and pick bottles to pay for fuel before I'd ever sell it!

 

I won't get rid of it. I need it to pull my toy hauler. But, I no longer drive it to work and back. I replaced it with a street bike that gets 57 mph. Saves over $300 month.

 

Peddle to the Gym round trip 17 miles, drive our Escape more. Put on 1,000 miles on my 450 since last October and 12,000 miles on the Escape. The Escape probably saves me speeding tickets. When I jump in my truck find I am 10-15mph over the speed limit. Will be towing 3,000 miles this summer cost is up about $350 over last year. Sure am going to enjoy driving it each and evey mile. Haven't put my Firehawk on the road yet this year so saving that amount in insurance. At least this winter I did not get my 450 covered in Salt, should last longer.

 

I drive mine daily. What's the point of making payments on a garage ornament is my motto.

 

Same here !

 

I've got to have a truck for hauling as well but my truck, sadly, is no longer my daily driver. Just using the little car for going to and from work and the gym saves us $300 - $400 monthly. I'm actaully fine with the truck sitting in garage all armored all'ed up just waiting for some work or hunting. It is was it is - I'd just assume use the $$$ for something else.

Firehhawk - your gonna be ready for a triathon soon.

 

lucky for me I have a company work van that I get to bring home every night. For most of the daily driving we use my wifes EDGE, it does ok on gas. My 350 mostly gets used for trips to HOME DEPOT, and towing the camper. To show how much I use the truck I took delivery 6-28-07 and to this day I only have 3400 miles on the odometer and 159 hours on the engine.

 

ditto ditto- I will save somewhere else in our budget.

 

I fall in the barely use it category.....I took delivery in November and now I have just hit 2,000 miles..I have a 2003 Jetta TDI it gets 43mpg and 600 miles to a tank and that is when I drive as if stolen so needles to say it see the most driving although I love taking my SD out it is more of a luxory to for me (a very expensive one that I wish I had waited and bought used at half price)

 

Truck gets 13 in town, bike gets 40. Averages out to where I ride alone and drive for work/the GF, and don't go broke.

 

I just bought a lincoln mark lt (F150) crew cab. It used to be if four guys were going to the job site, we took four diesel 350s. Now the trucks stay at the construction site, and every one jumps in the gas jobber and we taxi back and forth. Its not quite the same running a 5.4, but its saving me a bunch of money on diesel. (between trucks and equipment my diesel bill averages $6500.00 a month)

 

I am with you on that statement, I have my rig decked out the way I want it, now is the time to enjoy it

 

I just washed mine all up. We bought a 4 cylinder Honda on Monday, and the SD will start doing some garage time.

Not a total loss, I hope to be pulling the boat more often this summer. Been really afraid diesel would hit $10 around this coming October.

 

Looks like there may be quite a lot of "low milers" out there in a few years.

Not mine though

 

I have been driving the VW passt TDI this week, 32 MPG in town and 45 MPG HWY.