Do you have a company car?

[Lagonda]

I get stared at ALL day long......Attachment 4135

You poor sod! Thats an ugly looking truck before they scribbled all over it.

[rednecktech]

You poor sod! Thats an ugly looking truck before they scribbled all over it.

Tell me about it. One of my coworkers was at a stop light one day in his , saw a guy looking at him so hard going through the intersection that he didn't notice cars stopped in front of him and rear ended them. I'm literally driving a billboard around. I dont mind, my personal truck gets to stay in the garage and really only get's cranked on the weekends.

[fixthecopier]

For all of you driving a company piece of shit, I need to take a picture of my competitors on base. They took a large UPS style truck, painted it white and covered it in company ads. I refer to it as the copier assault truck. It may be why the techs for that company do not talk to me. Every time they pass me they see me laughing and pointing. It is a monster. They carry supplies for everything they have out here. Makes me love my Tacoma even more.

[canonclc]

Had a lovely Honda crv until yesterday,when white van man decided to re-arange the rear end-w$"nk3R5

[Selous]

I have a Toyota Townace. Piece of crap but my boss like them because they are cheap.

[Stirton.M]

If it were not for car allowance, I'd not be able to own the car I drive and I would have to put up with a POS for the third of the price...

I like my fully loaded 2008 Seabring Touring with all leather. Beats the POS 92 Olds Sierra that I drove around in since I bought it by too many levels, except power under the hood. But the mileage and comfort tradeoff is acceptable.

[gbfan]

We drive Dodges- I use a 2008 dodge caliber - I do keep it at the office, so I have to drive there and get it - but if there is a call near home I can take it for the night... They also let me use it if I need another car. We also get a credit card to take care of gas and maintenance... all and all not a bad deal I'd say.

[Stirton.M]

About the only thing I have to complain about is the parking expenses. Calgary removed all the parking meters and installed this thing called "park plus". one machine per block section accepts money, you put in the area number where you parked and your plate number and pay for the time you want. It accepts coin, CC and prepaid phone account. I refuse to use CC on these things and sometimes the homeless bums jam up the coin slot. I've been after our company to set up phone accounts with the city, but as yet they haven't budged on this, so I have to use my own and expense it. I am told Park Plus is pretty unique...though I cannot say for certain about that.

[AyJayAreDii]

I Have a travel card. Which covers the cost of travel in my area including the journey home. Also having a monthly card also let me travel into London for free on weekends. I'm still not on company insurance so I can't even offer just to take out a car for the day. I live A couple of mile from the office so I take the 10 Min drive into the office with my own car if I have too.

[NeoMatrix]

Yes have a company car....

My company offered to upgrade my small nippy little service vehicle to a bigger size more posh vehicle the other day, an I turned them down. I have top bosses by the way, but you should have seen the look on their dial. They couldn't understand that I didn't want a bigger slower parking vehicle to lumber around in the city. I just wanted my current quick-to-fit-anyway nippy little 4 door wagon.

Hey! I said, I already own a $47K Honda Accord as my private vehicle I don't want the extra burden of a plush company vehicle to worry about. It would be harder to park, more personal expenses, different to drive. A newer bigger vehicle means more work on the weekends scrubbing and cleaning, aaah no thanks I said.... Fine they said "we will give it to the new salesmen", "great" I said "done deal"...

I have my current vehicle 24/7 all hours day and night. I just have to put my own fuel in it if I take in on a private trip. It comes with a fuel card and all vehicle expenses paid during work hours, so it's not to bad. The fact that I have the vehicle 24/7 is mutually beneficial to my employers as the vehicle gets locked up at night in a safer neighborhood.


GDM