Yah, cheapest Uhaul was like $300 and I dont have a licence anyway. Even with a gas guzzling truck the gas would only cost me $110 round trip, and Im hoping to find something with better mileage (calculations with a midsize SUV were $78 round trip). On a budget here, with not a lot of time to save or plan. No rest for the the wicked, sort of fing
Curious where you calculated that?
I've got a 2010 Pontiac Vibe that's rated at 26 mpg highway. Realistically, the 26 mpg is assuming that there's no extra weight, everything's tuned up perfectly, you're driving that ideal 60 mph, etc, but we'll guess 25 mpg for the sake of figuring a few things. They list my tank as 13 gallons, but I have never fit much more than 11 gallons in it. So for a quick bit of figuring, we'll say 275 miles to the tank. It generally costs about $33-38 to fill my tank, depending on if gas is closer to 3 or 4 at that point, so I'll just use $35. Using generic city centers (Dearborn Heights to Schenectady), it's about 620 miles one way - going through the US.
I don't know if you have a passport or if the person who would drive you does, but you'd both need one, and I don't think you want to drive through Ontario with your dogs (if you're even allowed to). So at 1240 miles round trip (not counting how far your potential driver might be from you. For instance, I'm approximately 70 miles away), divided by the guesstimated 275, you're looking at about 4.5 fill-ups (realistic to round up to 5 considering we're counting everything as ideal situations and highway driving). That's about $175 - but it's also sending your driver home with an empty tank, so you'd probably want to make it $210 so they can refill when they get home, since we're assuming the journey was started on a full tank.
I'm not trying to pick or anything, I'm really just puzzled by the $110 with a "gas guzzling truck" or $78 with an SUV. The $210 for my fairly fuel efficient Vibe (it's not my Cavalier or Sunfire, which used to get 30+ on the highway, but it's still good) suggests that a truck, which would be more in the 18-19 mpg range (looking at a '09 Silverado for an idea), would be quite a bit more. Just something to budget for.