Reading your other comments, you’re probably one of few exceptions to the steadfast rule that people shouldn’t buy trucks. Sounds like you used your head when selecting one. Good job.
I can fill up my little four cylinder vehicle for about $50 … Canadian money too.
I’ve also poured over $100 into a truck and didn’t even crack a half a tank of gas. And I was thinking that the gas gauge didn’t seem to be going down any faster than it would have in my car… I realized when I filled it that the gauge represented 3-4x the amount of fuel.
My average in my little car is around 6L per 100km… Maybe upwards of 7 if I’m doing a lot of city driving.
Having a smaller car can easily save you $200 per month or even more depending on how much you drive. People are routinely spending an extra few $10k to buy a bigger vehicle (or spend an equal amount of money for a truck lease), and after that they say they couldn’t afford to spend $200 to rent a truck for a day.
The thing is that you often don’t see the cost of a large vehicle (or of any vehicle in general). While you drive, you don’t pay for anything. Infrequently, you pay for a whole tank of gas, and once a month you pay for insurance, and even less frequently you pay for maintenance. And value depreciation is something you don’t even see at all, it just occurs.
All of that is more or less hidden cost. When you get into your car you don’t go like “Ok, this drive down to the super market will cost me X$ in fuel, Y$ in insurance, Z$ in maintenance and Q$ in depreciation”.
But if you rent a car, you clearly see all the cost upfront, so it seems much more expensive.
Renting a truck right now in my area is $200 a day. If I need a truck for a day, I will almost certainly not be in a place financially to rent one
Reading your other comments, you’re probably one of few exceptions to the steadfast rule that people shouldn’t buy trucks. Sounds like you used your head when selecting one. Good job.
I can fill up my little four cylinder vehicle for about $50 … Canadian money too.
I’ve also poured over $100 into a truck and didn’t even crack a half a tank of gas. And I was thinking that the gas gauge didn’t seem to be going down any faster than it would have in my car… I realized when I filled it that the gauge represented 3-4x the amount of fuel.
My average in my little car is around 6L per 100km… Maybe upwards of 7 if I’m doing a lot of city driving.
That’s a common miscalculation.
Having a smaller car can easily save you $200 per month or even more depending on how much you drive. People are routinely spending an extra few $10k to buy a bigger vehicle (or spend an equal amount of money for a truck lease), and after that they say they couldn’t afford to spend $200 to rent a truck for a day.
The thing is that you often don’t see the cost of a large vehicle (or of any vehicle in general). While you drive, you don’t pay for anything. Infrequently, you pay for a whole tank of gas, and once a month you pay for insurance, and even less frequently you pay for maintenance. And value depreciation is something you don’t even see at all, it just occurs.
All of that is more or less hidden cost. When you get into your car you don’t go like “Ok, this drive down to the super market will cost me X$ in fuel, Y$ in insurance, Z$ in maintenance and Q$ in depreciation”.
But if you rent a car, you clearly see all the cost upfront, so it seems much more expensive.
That’s why I bought the smallest truck on the market. Great gas mileage too. And it was actually cheaper than many new cars coming in under 30k
You can rent them for $20 at Home Depot or Lowe’s. But, rent the vans, like actual workers use.