Is the multi-carrier business model worth it?
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No one is talking about giving Anything away. Talking about having the flexibility to get out of a tough spot and still make And acceptable profit
purgoose10
Veteran Expediter
Yeh that's a good point. Flexible is good, cheap is not. When I talk of GM or Ford I'm talking Ultra, Cargo, Terra etc. They are also flexible and cheap to run. I want one that's half RV and half freight hauler. Mine will be differant, it will have a fold out awning and an easy access grill. Pull into camper land, plug up and party. When done haul freight.
Yeh that's a good point. Flexible is good, cheap is not. When I talk of GM or Ford I'm talking Ultra, Cargo, Terra etc. They are also flexible and cheap to run. I want one that's half RV and half freight hauler. Mine will be differant, it will have a fold out awning and an easy access grill. Pull into camper land, plug up and party. When done haul freight.
Them Maxxs seem to need some work
purgoose10
Veteran Expediter
What kind of work??
I am hearing a rumbling of blown shocks and front ends....maybe just some taking on too heavy loads....
Rocketman however doesn't appear to have a problem, but then again putting a load into it once and awhile would help too....LOL
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You can take my nickel, you can take my dime, but I'll still deliver that load on time.
That is a good poem.
purgoose10
Veteran Expediter
I haven't heard anything about that. If you heard those things about the Maxx's your hearing them about regular C/V's as well. Besides why on earth would you want to put a load in one??? Isn't that how you haul Less for More??
That would be my opinion, but I don't have enough miles on mine to say much about it. My guess is that if you chase that rumor to the source, you'll find somebody maxing out the original 12,300 gvwr a few times a year.
I'm not going to say that I have never fudged the gvwr a bit, but I don't get too crazy with it. I've turned down a few loads that would have paid good money...and at least one that I really needed to get me moving, but the potential damage to the equipment + the liabilities involved are just too much for me.
This is not the first heavy duty GM chasis that I've owned. The others were not expedite vehicles, but expedite is child's play compared to what I've seen some of these chasis put through. I could easily be proven wrong I guess, but until then, I'm more concerned about lightening strikes than I am the front end components of a HD GM chasis.
That's where the word comes from, mostly. In poems that have rhyme and meter, a rhythm to them (prosody), where each section comes to a natural resting place before the next section, each section of the poem (the completed rhythm) is called a stanza. The term was applied to music for the same reasons. Stanza is Italian for stand, or stopping or halting place, loosely from the Latin stantia, to stand temporarily.
The literal translation to Italian for stand, as in the context of to stand up, is piedi, because you're standing on your feet, your peds (pedestrian, pedal, pedicure, pedometer), but in the context of standing there for a period of time, like those signs that say "no standing, stopping or parking", it means to stop and be still for a short period of time.
These are the kinds of things you learn in music college.
A great many musical terms are Italian. The reason is, many of the most important early composers from the Renaissance to the Baroque period were Italian, and it was during that period when numerous musical indications (loud, soft, slow, fast, etc.) were used extensively for the first time. A capella, concerto, coda, concerto grosso, cadenza, intermezzo, opera, sonata, even musical instruments like viola, tuba, piccolo, cornetto, timpani, orchestra, voices like soprano, also, basso, and tempo with largo, adagio, allegro, dynamics like, crescendo, fortissimo, diminuendo, pianissimo, and directions and moods such as con brio, con moto, con amore, the list goes on and on.
So, to sum up, the multi-carrier model is really nothing more than the musical equivalent of a scordatura.
A scorda..WHAAA?
Thanks to Wikipedia and Youtube, I was able to figure it out:
Scordatura Violin Improvisation - YouTube
Don't know how well it would fly at Juilliard, but it looks plenty useful for down-home fiddlin'
Exactly. It's fun, it works, has a cult following, but has great limitations in the range of applications where it can be used.A scorda..WHAAA?
Thanks to Wikipedia and Youtube, I was able to figure it out:
Scordatura Violin Improvisation - YouTube
Don't know how well it would fly at Juilliard, but it looks plenty useful for down-home fiddlin'
zorry
Veteran Expediter
I'm lost. Are you talking about OVM ?
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