what does your vehicle look like???

Hey,
How does your DD look inside??? I'm one of them "better to have and not need, than need and not have " folks... I got so much junk in my car that I can't even give someone a ride... How dop you get past something like that?? At what point do you pull up to a dumpster and just empty it out?
I keep a plastic tub in back, but it usually overflows....

A heck of a lot cleaner than my wifes. I've been driving that thing for 21 years and don't like to let things pile up. There's a few tools in the middle of the seat,a few spare parts now and then,some gloves maybe,but nothing and I mean nothing on the floor. A little bit of stuff in the middle of the dash board,but not much. Can't deal with clutter!

Get a bigger car? Friends that don`t mind riding with my extra arctic gear and tool bag in there lap? Everything I carry I have needed at one point or another, tools, high-lift jack, tire chains, arctic gear (Alaska), ratchet straps, snatch strap, flares, shovel, axe , oil and fluids, I could go on all day and this is just the everyday stuff, not the "mission specific" stuff.

Gee, that makes it sound like I lead either an exciting life, or a cursed one.

Funny you ask Dave.. I am one of those that trades about ever two years and my second shop has several boxes from previous trades. Like when I get ready to trade I pull up and empty the thing then go thru and see what I want to put back in the new one..Always carry a batery powred impact and sockets but when I unloaded the trade in last month I put it in a plastic TOTE and could not lift it. That really mad me think why am I hauling all this around. You may not be old enough to remember fuzzes little light up flares for an accident. Used to be mandantory in big trucks..You gues it I have three neatly wrapped in tape..No telling how many vehicles they have been thru..Always a half dozen flashlights with batteries down. Spare socks, rags, gloves, jumper cabeles, tow rope, first aid box and who knows what else. Not as many maps since we got gPS.

Magee closet with dog hair passenger seat cover...

my car gets that way as well, every time I change the oil or give it a wash it seems to stay nice for a couple weeks, then bottles start falling out the door, I cant find my work clipboard ect, I usually get a trash bag and empty it out when stuff starts getting under the pedals. My older brother used to drive a freightliner cabover truck for work, he would toss what ever trash he was done with on the passenger side of the doghouse (engine cover), when it filled up and srarted to block his veiw of the passenger side mirror he would open the door and shovel it all into a trash can, pretty bad eh, guess were all a bunch of slobs:^)

That sounds alot like me.

ha - just for kicks I did a quick inventory in the back of my grand cherokee -

a bag of goat food
two bottles of transmission fluid
a mapp gas torch
worm drive skilsaw
three heavy coats
the rear seat that I can't get back in
the 2x4 I use to prop the lift gate up with
some antifreeze
the bottom half of a chicken waterer
a box of roofing nails
a big rock...?
and a fishing reel

all floating around in about 2 inches of hay and dunkin donuts bags.

Man - I'm ready for SOMETHING, I just don't know what.

My truck seats three people. But only one can get in. My brothers seats six but only one will fit.

Not too bad, really.

For doing my real estate inspections, I need to maintain a positive image, so my car goes regularly through the carwash. In the trunk, I carry a camera pole, measuring wheel, snow boots and rubber boots, backup digital camera, backup GPS unit, and a few basic tools.

When I'm doing inspections, the front passenger seat contains a clipboard, digital camera, battery charger for my camera, paper hard copies of inspection forms, cell phone, flashlight, business card holder, photo ID badges, (I work for more than one company, so I need to make sure I'm wearing the appropriate photo ID), charge cords for my cell phone and GPS unit, etc. My GPS unit usually stays on my windshield 'cause I live by it. I usually eat on the run, so I just pitch napkins, etc on the passenger floor AND religiously clean it up every night.

My car is my office, so I need to keep it presentable.

A few tools behind seat in a box I built for the pickup, tow rope, jack, lug wrench, a little hay hay on the floor, dust on the dash, and my AAA card. Bud

My mail route car has all the needed postal
supplies stashed in both door pockets. The trunk
has a full size spare, 4 way lug wrench, small
floor jack, and a 6 gallon air tank that is always
refilled to keep at at 115 PSI.

On the back seat floor is a tackle box with the
rarely used postal forms, such as the accident kit
and "odd" denomination stamps. Also have a tire
plug kit back there, want it to be warm enough to
use when needed. That is why I carry air, 2 flats
in a day are common after they spread new flint
rock.

Tire chains and a shovel go in the trunk if major
snow is coming.

On the front seat passenger side floorboard is
always a pair of pliers, two screwdrivers, and a
rubber handle breaker bar. The rubber end of the
bar is to break the ice off frozen mailboxes.

On top of the car is a multiflash amber strobe
light. On the back is signage that says "Rural
Carrier" then below "Frequent Stops".

DOUG

Saw a homeless guy yesterday trying to get out of his crappy little car - one of those little ugly foreign roller skates that looks like a drowned out gopher. It had junk and garbage piled to the headliner everywhere but the drivers seat. He couldn't possibly see to the right, out the back, or even to the right front. He finally got out, had a hell of a time getting back in. A 10th degree hoarder on wheels. Worst one I ever saw. One thing about it - I bet no one ever asks him for a ride.

Just forget that last sentence if you ever see the inside of my shop though.

Told you about my route car already. My wife keeps
her car pristine. The only "extra's" to it are a
full size spare instead of the "inflation" kit
that was in the spare tire well, and a small floor
jack/4 way lug wrench stored in a "Rubbermaid"
type box just big enough to hold both.

My farm pickup needs to be cleaned out front and
back. Extended cab. Back seat has basically
everything you need for in the field repairs, up
to and including 3/4 drive socket set and a
cordless drill.

Add the jumper cables, log chains, chain binders,
ratchet straps, wireless tail lights, extra
Rotella and Hytran etc., the back seat is full. In
the summer figure on having a bale of both big and
small bale twine also.

In the bed is ALWAYS a generator and extension
cord. The air compressor, grinder, 110 MIG welder,
torch or whatever else I need get thrown in the
bed as I need them.

The charger for the cordless drill never leaves
the truck. It gets recharged with a voltage
inverter that also stays in the truck. DOUG

Clean aside for the gravel that gets tracked in on the floor. Jim

Stuff on floor

had an '87 cutlas that had a back seat full of stuff from the last time i drove home from college.
two years later i bought a '95 cutlass and moved all the stuff from one car to another
just sold the '95 and toook out:
2 garbage bags of clothes.
5 tape measures
4 screwdrivers
1 box of screws
1 box of nails
1 deep fryer
1 pile of records (albums)
2 board games
one file organizer
some CDs and DVDs
a candle
2 grout floats
2 different brand new cell phone batteries
1 blue tooth
3 half empty quarts of oil
and some other stuff

needless to say, wife requires the new car stay clean and stuff free.

I drive a 1995 VW Golf, with 204,563 miles on it.
She is starting to get some rust. Everything
works on it; ABS, A/C, etc. I am combating the
rust with Pendaliner, which is working out pretty
well.

I keep jumpers, 1 quart of oil, 1 jug of G-11, a
cresent wrench, 20' tow strap, vise grips, and
multi-bit screwdriver in it. And a small foldable
army shovel. It makes a handy weapon, and an even
better shovel.

That is about all I carry. I have not needed much
else!

Mine looks like someone lives in it! Oh, and with the garden gnome, that looks like external_link, in the back, holding the socialism sign, maybe someone does live in it!

Reasonably clean. A pair of channel locks and a screwdriver under the seat, and a 4 way back in the tire compartment. I use the little HHR for everything, even trips to Home Depot, I fold down the passenger seat, and I can carry 8 ft boards in there. I hauled about 500 lbs of feed last week, and 4 people to the fish fry tonight. Pretty good for paid for and it gets 30 mpg. I wonder sometimes, I see my neighbor going by in his F350, it cost 4x, gets about 1/4 the milage, and I have never seen him haul anything. He goes back and forth to a office job 40 miles away. His truck payment is $850!!! ( the house pmt is over 2K ) He complains he's broke, and blames the government......

I live in one town. Work in another, Farm south of a third, 60 miles round trip. Clothes, tools food, anything else I might need.

Well.. I have 3 trucks, I drive them all regularly..

In my Chevy, anymore, there isn't much beside the spare tire in the front or back.. I don't tote too much around in it anymore.. It gets good fuel mileage, so it's pretty well my errand running truck anymore.

In my Ford farm truck (extended cab, flatbed, toolboxes whole length of bed on either side) In the cab there is regularly a car seat for the right hand man, empty soda cans and bottles, gloves, sweat/flannel shirts, usually a small bag with a complete change of clothes, tools, phone charger..
In the back there is a fuel tank, air compressor (permanently mounted) in one side box there's usually quite a set of tools (except for this time of year when I do most my work in the shop) and on the opposite side you'll find spare parts, nuts, bolts, lubricants, grease, oil, rope, wire, chains.. and on and on and on (I used to regularly drive this truck to work, and ya never know what you might need)

My company vehicle has a service bed on it, and is just a standard cab. I try to keep everything out of the cab, in case a client needs to hop in to show me another application site, or in case I have to have one of the drivers or co-workers ride along (and it is company policy to keep it neat), but it's common to find the grease gun charger and a hammer on the passenger floor, and a briefcase and a binder full of sheets that I fill out for every load I receive. The bed is full of spare parts, a air compressor, hose reel, cables, chains, buckets of oil, and a gas can. One side of the toolboxes are full of spare parts, etc, and the other side is mostly tools.. It's a royal pain keeping the company truck in order because working in the field (and usually 100+ miles from our shop, and 30+ miles from my home/shop) you never know what you will need and when you will need it, so it seems like I carry enough spare parts and tools around to assemble another complete unit.

It used to be worse.. I used to haul a lot more junk around in any of the 3, plus have so much junk in the shop, but times are changing for me..

Brad

My 2004 F150 sits in the garage all nice and clean, in and out. I don't drive it unless it is an emergency or nice weather is out there. My work car,..the 04 Focus (Ford) is also pretty clean inside and out and gets great gas mileage because of the weight not being carried around all the time for no reason. ...Oh,..I do have a "Bug Out" bag to get me home, or to a safe location if needed.

My son,..who drives a 4 door Ford sedan has a bunch of junk, and even some good stuff in his car, I have warned him about how one may bash in his car window just to take a box which looks like something is inside it when acually it is empty. Being a slob never pays off.

Guys, My OLD DD was my 01 F350 DSL pickup, got me 15 mpg. Just got a new to me DD a 2011 Ford Edge got me 25mpg when I went to Houston TX. 400+ mile day today, my days usually run 150 to 320 /day.
Went from 15/16 to 22/25 huge difference in fuel economy, and I do not feel beat to death at the end of the day. + the V6 allows this rig to be highly sporty too. OBTW color is Earth Metallic depends on what direction the sun hits the paint it runs from Gray, Brown, Gray/Green, to a Redish hue.
I am a pack rat with various paper so every week I have to clean out and straighten up so it doesn't look like a pig sty! Some weeks twice a week.
Later,
John A

It's the digital era.


I will post a pic tomorrow of my daily. BTW, it's an IH 4700 dump. I get 11 mpg with the dt466. DOT and PA state police harrass me constantly. I keep it clean so they can't give me a ticket.

I'd still like to force one of them to crawl around under it when I am hauling a load of manure in teh rain. Let it drip in their mouth, maybe they will think twice...

Usually I drive a 2000 F350 gas crew cab and topper. Fuel consumption is pretty comparable (lousy) if it's empty or full so... I use it like the world's biggest station wagon: two car seats for the wee lads, various emergency equipment - winter coveralls, summer coveralls, winter rubber steel toe boots, chains, shovel, booster cables, one spare tire each for truck and flat deck trailer, set of wrenches and sockets, load binders, several ratchet straps, small 12V air compressor - farrier tools and stand, 2800W gas generator, tool box used mostly for haying season... and this trip I've got about 600lbs of used soda lime.
What I'm trying to say is: it's a mess. Don't call Hoarders on me for an intervention. I can clean out the truck any time I want to. Really.