Anyone Cancelling Truck Camper Trips Due to Fuel Prices?
Please, no political comments. We have a 5,000 mile trip planned with reservations made, but we are reconsidering due to fuel prices. 60 cents per mile for diesel is pretty bad.
Forum Discussion
Not really. However then again I don't travel all that far on my trips.
Given the two/three cost items: reservations, fuel and sometimes food/drink, how much extra costly do they have to be to avoid travel and/or abort/abandon a trip?
Reservations? IDK about the rest of you, but I'm booked through September and they are already paid for.
I mention "sometimes" food/drink as these are items that I'd be paying for anyway while staying home. While I may (or NOT!) get items on the road, eating in camp is surely less expensive then eating out.
Unless I'm staying for long periods at expensive places, fuel is almost always the single biggest expense of a trip. However where/what exactly is the 'tipping point'? %25, %50, %100, %200? I suppose here it depends on how much was budgeted in the first place before the magnitude of the % increases are applied.
- Mark0.
Given the two/three cost items: reservations, fuel and sometimes food/drink, how much extra costly do they have to be to avoid travel and/or abort/abandon a trip?
Reservations? IDK about the rest of you, but I'm booked through September and they are already paid for.
I mention "sometimes" food/drink as these are items that I'd be paying for anyway while staying home. While I may (or NOT!) get items on the road, eating in camp is surely less expensive then eating out.
Unless I'm staying for long periods at expensive places, fuel is almost always the single biggest expense of a trip. However where/what exactly is the 'tipping point'? %25, %50, %100, %200? I suppose here it depends on how much was budgeted in the first place before the magnitude of the % increases are applied.
- Mark0.
