I have four vehicles that I use regularly, Jack, my 79 lifted Silverado, Lucy, my 87 Mazda 626 with tons of finely aged miles on her, and two buses that I obviously don’t own, but use to accomplish my job.
It all depends on the weather as to which vehicles get used, and when. The commute between the house and base is 2.3 miles and I frequently park my bus and go home for lunch and breaks. Lucy gets 40+ mpg and is the obvious choice here but sometimes a foot of snow on the road requires a four-wheeled drive tank like Jack, at 10 mpg.
My regular bus, #845, is a 12 passenger sweetheart with a great turning radius. For most weather conditions she does fine, but sometimes the weather turns absolutely crazy and then it’s time to crank up the Stud, #801. This is a 16 passenger bus with four brand new Firestone studded snow tires sitting on the rear. The only thing that would stop this thing, is to bottom out.
Vehicle management is my game. Today was a Lucy/845 combo…
I fully understand. I have the ’02 Ford Focus at 30 mpg and my Dodge Dakota PU at 19 mpg and weather and need dictate use. I also have my 1998 extra wide,extra heavy duty leather Stratolounger that has unlimited milage. Now that I am retired and don’t have a boss telling me that I have to drive on snow days, when the weather gets bad enough I use the old strato. We had some really bad weather for this region during the last two weeks and I had 3 strato days. I am afraid I must confess to having discovered a dark side to me. I did, during the really bad days, think of my ex fellow drivers and was not able to feel bad for them.Hey Marilyn,pass the remote.
My brain is convoluted Rod, I had to do a quick Google search on “Stratolounger” to see what kind of vehicle that was. Duhh, it’s a couch!
Hmmm… How are you guys going to come visit, driving a couch?