Anyone else buy additional vehicles to keep at their terminals?

i did it, bought a cheap few hundrid dollar car with cosmetic damage but mechanically sound to park at a terminal a couple hundrid miles from home so when i left the truck there i could run home or if i came threw there i could hop in the car to go run to the store or what not. the car was ugly so i didnt car if someone backed into it or something (never did happen) at the time i bought the car the semi came home with me most of the time for service work but later on i started leaving the truck at the yard and running back and forth in the car. the car served me well and got more than moneys worth out of it. still have it but its parked at home now

 

registration insuruance whole 9 yards. got a discount on insurance for minimum millage driven ect plates for a old practically worthless car like that in my state is like $40 a year. an additional vehical on my existing policy with minumum annual millage only added about 300 a year to my insurance. plus the car got 30mpg. so towards the end when i was driving to and from home to the terminal in the car it saved me more in fuel than the car cost me over driving my pickup and i didn't have to worried about the possibility of someone hitting my pickup. hell it was probably over 3 years ago now that i bought that car.

 

as far as dead battery's or flat tires. never had a flat had a dead batt a few times.(leave the dome light on or somthing and not see the car for a few weeks.) pull the semi up to the car and whip the jumper cables out. if i had a flat i could pull out my glad hand air hose and air it up. no biggie

 

I did too, pretty much the same circumstances as ezrider, bought an ugly good running car from my dispatcher. If I couldnt get a load by the house I would go to the terminal and drive 169 miles home. I also decided to take the car home most of the time cuz I made better time in the car. I left the key with dispatch, they knew who I would let drive it and it worked pretty well.

 

I found a bullet hole in my drivers door after leaving my personal vehicle at my former companies terminal

 

I used to work for a company in Des Moines. Had an old Chevy I bought from my father in law. Served me well for a long time. Only real issue I ever had was losing it under a snow drift one time. I had a couple friends I trusted who also drove it when they where in town. Kept batteries charged pretty well that way.

 

Couldn't you just bobtail where you need to go? Thats what I do. If the truck is in the shop you wouldnt want to go get groceries or anything for the truck till its out anyways.

 

I used to buy cars at he local auction for $200-300. Liability insurance is nothing. The only thing I kept in the cars were paper towels and windex. The dust can build up so heavily n the windows that ou won't be able to see out. Get about a year or two out of each car...never change the oil. When they die, just pull our tags and call a junk dealer to pick it up and get a hundred dollar bill out of it.