about 6min drive away from home to work. no traffic at night on the way, no traffic in the late hours after work. no highyway or interstate commute either one straight road with a few lights. love my commute, but its gonna change soon if i move further out. i cant see myself working a job where the gas bill per month is higher than my cellphone bill. i limit myself $10 a week on premium gas, which gives me a quarter tank, for to and from work, with a little to spare for errands.
When fuel is 3.25/gallon, my gas costs 60-100/week. Now that gas is 4 bucks a gallon (again).......do the math.
Well we just moved on the 1st and now my commute is 45 minutes but gas out this way is 12 cents cheaper!!!!
Woo GG bump! Thankfully Denver has the cheapest gas in the nation apparently. As an update to my OP, going to move back to the 'burbs for a bigger place on the third floor, balcony, w/d hookups and working appliances. Done with living downtown and dealing with the people plus my student id makes the light rail "free" for when I want to work or go down to meet people!
1. I could never move back in with my parents. I would feel as if I let them down. 2. I drive a vehicle that I can afford. It sucks a ton of gas and is huge but my family is safe when we have to make that trek out in that dangerous world. 3. I hear Alaska might have some oil.
I put 1500 miles on the truck in the past 2 weeks. Working service ya never know where you will be working. Its all good tho I get paid travel time and don't pay for gas or tolls so I'll pretty much go where they want me.
We have been feeling the pain from fuel prices in the last few weeks. Our dump truck averages ~6mpg, and runs lower depending on the load in the back and whether or not we are pulling the wood chipper (which weighs near 5000# itself). This past Saturday we had 4.5 tons of North American Pine logs in the bed (~30" diameter, stacked front to back and just above the top of the bed. With the truck floored, it would only run 45mph running up some of the steeper hills on the interstate. We have had to raise our prices to cover the fuel. Whereas we used to just quote a straight hourly rate (based upon estimate, which we are generally very close), we now have to add a fuel surcharge based on the distance from our base. As long as we are able to drive the dump truck, we drop the fuel surcharge. We are upfront with our customers, and explain the estimate we provide to them. Believe it or not, nobody has complained thus far about us charging a surcharge. They fully understand, as we generally absorb the cost of disposing of the waste wood and wood chips into the hourly cost. ~Will Courtier~
Moved into our new facility in Yorba Linda last week and so far, it's been 20 minutes to and fro (drom Corona). Not bad but considering it's only 10 miles distance, it's not great either. I'd say half of that 20 minutes is spent on the 91 traveling just 4 miles or so.
I work from home these days so my commute is quite short. The amount of gas money I've saved over the past couple months is crazy.
I've had to start charging for fuel. People here really do not like it one bit but I'm not in business to pay to do their work.
A buddy of mine said something pretty spot on the other day. He told me that with the rising gas prices, it will be very easy to go broke driving from job to job. He also said that if he's going to go broke, might as well do it sitting on his ass at home. ~Will Courtier~
That's how I see it too. Competitors that vow to not charge a fuel surcharge just to get jobs, don't stay in business long. I'll gladly let someone else loose money.
