Spending on The Road

I was able to take some time today to look at what I have been buying while out on the road. Besides a once daily meal at a truck stop, most of my other major purchases have been drinks and food for in the truck. Most of the food has been bought in grocery stores, but the drinks have been from truck stops. Anything at a truck stop store is at least fifty percent more expensive than the same item from a grocery store. This is because they know they have a captive audience. So I am going to have to try and get more of my drinks in bulk from Sam's or Costco to limit my purchases. I would just buy a liter of apple juice, but that is inconvenient to use while driving. This will means I will have to purchase individual bottles and store the extra in the truck, until it is time to toss them in the cooler.

Milk is another big purchase for me, but hauling individual bottles would be impossible to keep them all cold, and a gallon just is inconvenient to drink while driving. So for the foreseeable future, I will have to keep buying milk from truck stops.

I would love to cut back on the number of meals that I buy will out on the road, but the size of the cab makes it extremely difficult to carry enough food to make this less of an expense. Lunch and Breakfast are easy to work out, but dinner takes some space.