I drive 27 miles to work and back each day and diesel here is $5.05 a gallon. I use my truck ('02 f-350) mainly as a daily driver. Give me some good reasons not to sell! I don't want to get a small pickup or rice burner car. I do have a motorcycle which I ride when the weather is good which helps somewhat.

 

I would wait awhile. Use your motorcycle for the summer. Hopefully diesel prices go down. Here where I live, prices went from $4.999 to $4.799 the other day. Don't know why.

Dave..

 

I seem to be the opposite. I can't think of one reason to sell my truck.

Good luck.

 

Well you're not going to get better mileage than with a bike, so you're average MPg's (between the truck & bike combined) should be pretty good. There's been lot's of talk about the price of oil being inflated and it has started to come down recently. Since you have the bike for summer and the market for used trucks isn't too good right now I'd at least hold onto it for a few months and see what diesel prices do.

 

I think that Chris hit the nail on the head. The price of these trucks has dropped. There is a used dealer in the next town over that has a few that he cannot move. One he has dropped the price by $4-$5K.

 

I have an 11mile round trip to work and back, I dont drive my truck except on weekends. I ride my ninja everyday. I just didnt like not being able to get the truck up to temps before having to turn it off everyday! Since I have been doing this I put about 3k mi on my truck in 10 months (that includes my 800mi vacation to stretch her legs)
hang in there

 

I agree with everything that has been said here. You won't get what it's worth, at least not right now.

Besides, if its important for you to have a truck, you wont do yourself any good going with a gasser. Cheaper fuel, but worse mileage, and worse resale.

ride the motorcycle, look for a beater car to drive around when you cant ride the cycle.

 

You answered it yourself.

 

Take the price of Diesel and divide by your MPG to get what it cost per mile to drive your truck. Multiply that by the miles you drive per year (or whatever you want) to get how much it cost to drive it.

Now take the price of gasoline and divide by the MPG of the vehicle you are looking at replacing with (remember the EPA numbers are inflated) to do the same thing. When you put them side by side, you may be surprised to see how little you will save.

I put on 40K/year and would only save $3250/year (depending on price differential) which would not make sense to change vehicles given cost of insurance and other items. I am fortunate that I have a station near me that the highest it has gotten is $4.699 (right now), but the rest of my trip to work it is as high as $4.999 right now. I am looking at the bubble going to burst sometime soon and prices to start coming back down.

 

are you going to buy another one when and if fuel prices drop?

 

Yeah , what Lisa said

hanklin

 

Mine is a daily driver also 15 miles to work . I have been using this time of high fuel prices as a good reason to maximize my MPG .I have been experamenting with additives but mostly driving style my last fill up I got 16.88 and I was real happy with that . Of course I pulled my 62 unibody out of the field a couple of weeks ago and have been working on it (it has a 223 ) just incase the fuel prices keep going . I will not sell my truck because of fuel prices ,I looked a long time for it and it is just what I wanted ,I may not drive it as much but she's a keeper.

 

You should totally sell it, to me for cheap

I don't have much of a choice when it comes to driving these trucks. We pull big loads, and I'm not going to get anything that will do any better. My neighbor is doing the samy thing you're doing. He's looking at a different everyday driver, and storing his truck for now. I agree with the others in this thread. Now is a bad time to try to sell one of these trucks. Which is why I'm thinking about buying another.

 

one word, NO. What everyone else said.Thats more than one word and were all biased.

 

make bio-D instead. it has taken me a few weekends and ~ $200 all together now but I am very easily making 20 gallons a week. i cannot wait until my 40 gallon processor is done.

the biggest determining factor is whether or not your truck is PAID for.