Recent content by plumcrazy8

Just secured a local driving job today. I will truly miss the expediting business but not as much as I have missed my family. You really do only go around once in life, so make it something you will be proud of. With the last of 7 children being 15 years old last week and my wife being...

Just a few comments of my own here. 1. It appears that our political attempts in the past 20 or 30 years to form a one-world govenment are coming to fruition. We are continually lowering our standard of living and pouring money into all other countries to raise their standards of living. This...

RE: New Guy with Class 8 Straight truck Please HEL Back to the tandem vs liftable tag, I've had them both in class 8 straight trucks. The tandem (hopefully you mean twin screw - don't mess with a non-drive second axle you can't lift!) is more expensive for tolls but not much, winter traction...

1983 Cabover Pete with an add-on sleeper, 903 Cummins "big power" V-8, 18 speed double o/d, 24 foot box, big lift gate. Towing, of course, a 1,000 gallon fuel tank (to get me ALL the way across 1 state) and an on-board chiropractor and brain surgeon! Oh, and I want my old HyGain 5 w/powermike back.

I can't help but remember the words at orientation "don't even think about unhooking the power to the QC unit". We all know that OUR companies wouldn't remove a safety feature like a fuse holder just to make it more hard-wired and tamper-resistant. Don't we?

I've done both the Owner/Operator and the 60/40 "driver" and much prefer the "driver" situation. The owner/operator (which is what you are if you are buying the truck in any manner) repair costs can, and usually do, put you out of business. Fuel TAXES shouldn't scare you if you pay attention to...

Appreciably higher torque figures are usually only realized when displacement is increased, especially in this day and age of electronic rather than mechanical fuel injection. A 330 hp 3126 cat (I think they are 7.4 litre) won't hold a candle to a 335 hp C-10 (10.0 litre) cat - I've had them...

I also read the article on fuel temps, but can't remember where (must have been here). It had to do with installing heat-sensing pumps to adjust pricing and the possibility of government mandating such a device. Anybody remember where this article came from?

Got a dead one here too. Anyone else here wondering if the ProHeat people are reading these posts? Just in case they are....H E L P !! Your SERVICE network has FAILED.

A lot of smaller lumber yards and no-name "farm & fleet" type centers carry Amzoil products. Since you're in the expediting business you should pass many of these on your travels. Being from northern Minnesota I have been studying the 0- products Amzoil has come up with and have been using them...

I've used Mobil 1 since the late 70's and Delvac 1 (diesel oil) in anything that has a piston or gears, wouldn't use anything other than a full synthetic. My Chev small block 406 at 675hp won't ever see anything but Mobil 1 20w50 racing oil. Check out motoroilbible.com for some good reading. For...

Anyone who develops an opinion based upon one side of the story is soon to be disapointed. Conservative? Liberal? Religious? Political? Newsprint? Television? Radio? Hear-Say? Left, right, middle, hillbilly or yank? Best consider all avenues before making a turn. And THANK WHOEVER IS...

I have a question, What is BMC?. And a comment, Kudos to all those of us who feel that way about the Visteon Sterling Heights plant. Now there's a bunch who needs a "real world" job to wake them up from their weekly bath of money.

Hey Muleteam1: W H A T L O A D B O A R D? So far all you've done is skirt around the issue by giving us the ConwayNow website and we all know there is no loadboard there. Come on now, you started this now finish it.....please?

RE: Is it not a requirement to be able to read Eng Hey Raceman. I wasn't going to reply to this post because it is so hard to discuss without the "correctness" junkies (otherwise known as the "Oh That's Not Nice" milk toasters) trying to make their arguments. Those guys probably worked for a...