When Your Daily Driver is Your Overland Rig

[Ikram]

That’s me commuting to work in my lx470 with all the overlanding mods....

 

[Triton Freediver]

Hello Team!

Nice article, this is my daily vehicle for commuting to work in the City of London.......his name is Pegasus and I love him!

I hope to meet you all during our travels!

 

[Sparksalot]

A trailer for overlanding makes daily driving the tow vehicle real easy, since it can be virtually stock.

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What trailer did you start with to build upon?

 

[wvjeeper]

I used to drive my Jeep to work every day. Then the commute exceeded 70 miles round trip and my gas mileage dropped under 16mpg. lol.

 

[SteveC-Pro4X]

So true about parking garages. I tried once, scraped the roof and thankfully was able to back out of there. The damage was minimal. Lesson learned.

 

[WAYAWAY]

I drove to work today with a bunch of camp stuff in the back of my 4Runner.. I use mine for both.

 

[WAYAWAY]

So true about parking garages. I tried once, scraped the roof and thankfully was able to back out of there. The damage was minimal. Lesson learned.

I felt like I'd won the lottery when I was moved to a new parking structure at work.. the one with the 7' clearance signs.

 

[USStrongman]

I didnt dig the article that much when I read it initially and then re-read it a few weeks ago. Case in point: Harley Riders. Many guys I know went to work in all their Harley regalia - boots, chaps, belt buckle, t-shirt, vest, jacket, beanie style helmet, gloves... all branded HD. THey took all of it off to put on scrubs wihle the bike sat in the lot with tons fo accessories. Stereos, bags, grip tassels, coffee cup holder, etc. Eventually many of them got stolen. Parts and whole bikes.

Why leave traction boards, shackles, propane bottles, ax, shovel, hi-lift, etc on when it can all easily be detached and walked away with? Minimize your DD, outfit your weekend rig!

 

[dr_r2r]

My daily....

 

[Boostpowered]

Weve messed up so many airport parking garage overhangs and drive through fast food overhangs with my contractors rack its almost funny apparently neither me nor my wife can comprehend what 8 ft looks like . We are not over cautious on the trails with our newish truck because weve got the disposable income and i have the know how to fix things if they break. Only thing we are remotely cautious with is when were on rocks to not mess up the body beyond all the trail pinstriping weve got, i hate doing bodywork and panels are riddiculously expensive for our truck.

 

[Submariner]

My"new" jeep cherokee is my daily driver. Of course my Comanche is my go to the woods driver and the honda element is my long distance travel rig. I just finished 7000 mile ride in it.

 

[Submariner]

My daily driver is a 01 jeep cherokee, but my get into the woods to bring home firewood is a jeep comanche. and my long distance run across country is my Honda element.

 

[indy the adventurer]

Awesome article and rig set up! Inspires thoughts of getting out of the city and having a grand adventure at a moment’s thought. I’m known to carry my gear always and be damn what others think. Beats unloading and reloading. Overland Bound!

 

[RoarinRow]

I normally drive my rig once a week to keep her fluids moving. I may drive her more depending on weather conditions, etc. But 10 vs 40 mpg is a no brainer for me lol.

 

[Outdoordog]

My daily driver. Drive about 3 miles a day for work.

 

[Motoboss]

Daily driver, work and camping rig. Decked drawer system in the bed, Yakamia roof rack for the Thule and ARB awning and room add on.

 

[R302]

This is why I've been having trouble justifying a 2020 Ram Power Wagon, or a 2020 Ram 3500 mega cab for overlanding and daily driver

 

[derekjhunt]

So true about parking garages. I tried once, scraped the roof and thankfully was able to back out of there. The damage was minimal. Lesson learned.

My garage at work has two clearances, the main which is 7' 4" and the other is a bit lower. I discovered this by having the crossbars on my leitner rack take out the electrical conduit. I stopped bringing the rotopax to work when there was a small leak which set off some sensor in the garage and the fire marshall was called. This happened twice and then he told me not to bring a gas can into a garage.

 

[XstremeLivn]

LawnDart submitted an Article on the main site!

When Your Daily Driver is Your Overland Rig

We recently connected with Overland Bound Member #0833, Isaac Marchionna about his mega loaded up overland rig that he uses every day as his daily driver in Downtown Portland. He gives us his...

Continue reading the Original Blog Post.

Thank you for sharing. I live across the river in Vancouver and have seen your rig around Portland.... Michael

 

[toolsforwar]

Yeap I drive my 93 montero everyday. It's not bad on gas cause of the small V6. I drive about 6 miles to work.