Keep the car?

avan wrote:
We full timed nearly 15 yrs and like Stacy above, we pulled our rig with an International MDT. We put nearly 400,000 miles on our truck. It was our toter and our daily driver. When we traveled, we liked to travel "together". That was as much the point of our full timing as was seeing the country. We never considered traveling separately for any reason and certainly not one that involved a few MPG difference.

My wife was disabled and she loved driving the truck. Shopping was her avocation and there wasn't a shopping center parking space in the country that she couldn't whip that sucker into. She especially liked it when she pull in to a grocery store parking space in some town, climb down out of the cab with either her cane or her walker and watch the drool from the guys sitting outside waiting for their wives to finish shopping. She'd come back and tell me about this guy who would say "YOU drive that?" and about the guy who'd ask if she minded if he looked inside or if he could look under the hood. She thought it was a gas!

Did I say that we got to travel together?

I know others may differ and that's OK but with the right truck, the fewer MPG is a bit irrelevant. I bought the truck used (a couple of years) and after driving it all those years and putting on 400,000 miles (it was barely broken in :) ) I sold it over the net to a buyer over 5,000 miles away in less than 30 days for well more than half of what I paid. And what I paid was quite a bit less than what is now paid for a new F350 today. Drive your 1 ton and your car for a combined 400,000 miles over 15 yrs and see if you can recoup 60% of your purchase price. If not, subtract that extra depreciation from your gas savings and see where you are. Oh, and did I say we enjoyed each others company as we drove the back roads of this country?

FWIW.