Are We Infatuated with Our Cars or what?

I use the term 'cars' loosely here to include all forms of motorized personal transportation devices including sports cars, luxury cars, pick-up trucks, SUVs, minivans, motor homes, motorcycles and on and on. I wonder how many vehicles there are per person here in America.

I understand not everybody owns a vehicle. But alot of people own two or three. Then consider all the vehicles "For Sale" sitting on lots in every town with a population over 50. We'll ignore the salvage yards (they don't like to be called junk yards anymore) and the discarded heaps sitting in the field out back rusting away.

We love our cars.

I am sitting in Bowling Green, KY waiting for some money to change hands (not mine) so I can take this re-possed truck to the auto auction in SC. The auction send the required storage and recovery fees to the repo man via Fedex with 10:30 guaranteed delivery. It's now going on 1:00. Six inches of snow will do that to you.

There is also a wrecked car coming from the insurance auction here in BG going to Savannah; which is where I'm headed. My dad is having a 'procedure' Wednesday morning and I plan to be there. But the buyer has not paid the auction company yet so that vehicle also has not been released. I'm told that should happen today.

It's less than 500 miles from here to where I deliver the repo'd pickup; less than 10 hours. Then another 250 miles on to Savannah; less than 5 hours. (I drive slow, remember. It's all about fuel mileage.) I figure if I can get out of here by 4 this afternoon I can make my first delivery by late tomorrow morning. Then on to Savannah before dark. I can deliver the wreck Wednesday after my dad is done. His thing is out-patient. It works 'in my head' but first some money has to change hands.

Having a trailer with ramps has really expanded my opportunities for moving around. If I was sitting here with my old trailer I would ..... be sitting here awhile. Since I now have the ability to load vehicles we are subscribing to a new load board. It has amazed me how many vehicles there are to move. So much so that I'm now wanting another trailer that is a combination flatbed but also has a longer dove-tail and slide-in ramps (versus the flip ramps).

I know, never satisfied. But heck, if I was happy with everything as is there would be no growth.