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2022 Gas Prices - Will $2(+) per Litre slow you down?

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Relax said:
Can a company just move offices without compensating their employees for relocation costs?
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Scary can of worms to open. The same logic can be applied to wfh (your commute got shorter so you get less money or you live in a location with lower col so you get less money).

Often moving an office means you lose ~10% of your staff. That's not always a bad thing as they were likely not key employees. Where a company I know moved substantially (tens of km's but a far different commute) they offered nothing. Employees were free to leave. That worked. Almost 100% went.

As for MP, the job is where the office is now. Construction jobs often move offices to follow the work. I would suspect they include it in their contracts.
 
Relax said:
Can a company just move offices without compensating their employees for relocation costs?
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No clue about legalities. As I’m aware company can move offices for ‘reasons’ and staff can choose to continue to the new office, or find a new job. *shrug*
 
mimico_polak said:
No appetite for a diesel? We had F350s on our last job site with diesels. Phenomenal beasts.
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phenomenal beast indeed. Phenomenal repair costs as well. I can't justify the added cost unless I were making a living with it and using it every day. This beast is best if one could write it off with creative business tax...
 
ungoloth said:
phenomenal beast indeed. Phenomenal repair costs as well. I can't justify the added cost unless I were making a living with it and using it every day. This beast is best if one could write it off with creative business tax...
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We leased about 20-30 of them on our site...they got beat to hell...but after 2 years they probably saw 30-50k each...if that. Most of the time they'd get fired up, drive 500-750m, and then turned off for the rest of the day....BUT when you had 3-5ft of snow in one night...couldn't be beat. We were able to climb 20-30% slopes with zero issues...and just very comfortable. Once the smaller Canyons came on the site, it was comical to see them parked side by side.

Took them a year to figure out they're not needed so they started returning them to the leasing company.
 
Rule #3, never lease equipment to mining companies unless its a key machine like a boring head. Pickups are considered disposable in mining and heavy construction. My SIL gets company trucks in Ft Mac, they are only new for the first day.
 
crankcall said:
Rule #3, never lease equipment to mining companies unless its a key machine like a boring head. Pickups are considered disposable in mining and heavy construction. My SIL gets company trucks in Ft Mac, they are only new for the first day.
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Yup. You could tell the difference b/w the people that actually gave a crap about the truck (me and the guys from the city), and the old mining guys. Their trucks were in all the time at the shop...ours...not a single issue. Except when the mining guys took them.

The electrician trucks were the worst...absolute pig sties in comparison to anyone else's truck.
 
Gas meh.

Making the move to a truck this year probably. Still haven’t decided which model…

I don’t drive the X5 like a grandma anyways so, I will likely not be surprised at my monthly gas useage.

Upside is I commmute to work on the bike every chance I get. So I’ll save there.

Which reminds me…time for the burger thread.
 
My favourite rental vehicle when I go to Central America is a turbo diesel mitsubishi 4x4. It’s not luxurious but I have driven one up a volcano and got out of some very sticky situations with one on rocky steep roads. My wife still reminds me of this whenever I utter the phrase “I wonder where this road goes?” when on holiday. I’m sure a gas version would probably do the same but these things are awesome.
 
jc100 said:
My favourite rental vehicle when I go to Central America is a turbo diesel mitsubishi 4x4. It’s not luxurious but I have driven one up a volcano and got out of some very sticky situations with one on rocky steep roads. My wife still reminds me of this whenever I utter the phrase “I wonder where this road goes?” when on holiday. I’m sure a gas version would probably do the same but these things are awesome.
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Old diesels (or ones in countries that care less about the environment) are entirely different beasts. Emissions controlled diesels with egr, dpf, def etc are an entirely different animal and one that is hard to justify economically for a light vehicle.
 
Evoex said:
Gas meh.

Making the move to a truck this year probably. Still haven’t decided which model…

I don’t drive the X5 like a grandma anyways so, I will likely not be surprised at my monthly gas useage.

Upside is I commmute to work on the bike every chance I get. So I’ll save there.

Which reminds me…time for the burger thread.
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looking for an f150? gets better mileage than your X5, doesn't have to take premium. :)
 
I am working from home for the past 2 years, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. My organization is remote first.
The same applies to my wife. Essentially, the car is used for grocery runs & road trips with the family, and the bike is used exclusively for road trips with myself.

The road-trips cannot stop regardless of fuel price.
 
Georg3__ said:
Hybrid f150 gets around 12L/100km... Around the same as driving a enthuasist car like the WRX STi
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12L/100km is pretty good (if it’s reality and not just the advertised number).

My WRX was around 7-12l/100km depending on how conservative I was. Best highway achieved was 6.5…but that was SOOOOO boring.
 
I did notice in today's travels that a significant number of transport trucks (not all) have taken a little bit off their speed. Dropping from 105 to 100 should save several percent in fuel.
 
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