Look at the posts flood in on this one <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Just curious. On that side of the pond, what do your service workers drive to their job sites (builders, roofers, plumbers, landscapers, general handyman, etc)?

I drive a ford f150 supercrew. It does get used as my tow vehicle, but the real reason I own it is because I own a number of rental properties that I do maintenance on. I also have a wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs and a cabin a few hundred miles away from home. I tried doing the trailer thing for years by always putting a hitch in my audi 4000’s, 200’s and a4’s. I generally put on about 40k miles a year on my vehicle, my wife puts about 10k on hers.

I hated paying for the extra fuel when it’s just me in the car commuting to my day job (70 miles round trip), but the small size of the car when going north, or trying to pull a trailer load of lumber or sheetrock to a rental was just too impractical. I bit the bullet and bought a truck to handle the jobs. It costs me more at the pump, but it saves me time and that’s worth more than the extra I pay at the pump. I always have my “trailer” with me now. Besides, it’s tough to find a snow plow to fit my other vehicle, Audi a6 avant (although it’s certainly more capable in snow than my truck <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> ).

To Maugans point about artificially taxing fuel. If you artificially tax me on the fuel to drive my truck to and from my apartments, guess what… I’m not going to pay that extra tax, I’m going to pass that cost onto my tenants who are paying me to keep their place livable and under good repair. Follow that chain of events and see what happens to the economy in 10 years. Can you say recession?