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its spunky light and fun....what can i say ive fallen for the lil car, reminds me of a lightly modernized 70s corrola wagon with added spunk!...at times we both wish it were the 5spd....its what she wanted as well as the rs package..but that would have been a 6month wait she couldnt afford.......it doesnt even have power windows or AC..YET
since mom past in sep, ALL bills save for someone paying our mortgage payment 1 month ahead have been able to be covered, for the most part anyway...i sold an alfa off to give us a cushion, but every time we cut into it we make it up, prior to moms passing we had ZERO savings at any given time, right now were sitting on a nice cushion that "if" something happens were covered for 2-3 months of ZERO work
admittedly were kinda lucky since the house payment is a lil over 800 a month and that includes prop tax
many times even this week where we have pulled 200$ in 5-6 hour day as we often finish early and can grab another run...mind you were doing logistics ONLY none of that prime now or fresh BS
wife took a nasty fall last week, typicaly i nav, sort and prep everything, she drives and hustles packages, since the app nav is GARBAGE and..i know the areas as ive lived in em my whole life..so i can shortcut cross cut and re-route on the fly, often times running the routes in my own order, with her semi down shes driving and im doing all of the rest of it....a couple times weve even taken the car and the truck down at the same time grabbed a double load came home re-sort load n go..those were huge surged runs we couldnt resist 300+ in what should be 8 hours done in 7
when we get deep into the hills and woods it starts feeling like a ralley driver/co pilot situation as i can tell her how hard the corner is what banking etc before i can even see it, so in some cases we can and do drive pretty hard for the fun of it
everyone screams wear n tear on on the car but honestly....for some reason the lil yaris gets neerly 41mpg i assume the gearing or tune is different due to it being a canadian model 5dr hatch...the milage on it is still stupid low..and honestly the only real wear its seeing is in the seats....the typical day is 50ish miles round trip for a double..with out max being 81 to date...i know ppl who commute daily who do 60-70 miles round trip just to work in an office for 8 hours
best of all were actualy having fun doing it..even on the rainy pissy foggy black days its still fun, most of the mods to the car have simply made life better...the vent visors were for my wife fogging up the car since shes a furnace, the lights so she can se better fogs for cutting the crap 4 usb ports for chargeing devices, since we found that "idealy" you need 1 device to "work" 1 to hotspot wifi, and for taxes we have another running bakcountry nav recording our milage and "tracks"....early on without hotspotting wifi made the "working" device slow, so slow youd get to a stop and wait a few mins for it to "catch up" then fight with it especialy if your up in the hils or in a shitty cell spot...now everythings blisteringly fast with very VERY few hicups(aside from the nav which is shit)
bonus points for a brand new warehouse being put up 10-15 mins away, with the most friendly staff who recognize us when we get there, and they try and pull us off "small" loads or double loads going in the same directions, another one a couple nights ago was a 4.5 hour for 150ish, 4 packages way way way out in the sticks, did it in 2.5 WITH getting home, without speeding
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