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Mike never finished his thing at all. Never mind going overboard. He was right on with revamping health and education. Those two institutions needed a lot of reworking and cost controls. No OVM he was doing the right thing and stopped WAY too soon! I defiinitely liked the common sense...

Well as most politicians are lawyers it makes sense to start a campaign to get candidates who are normal working people rather than over paid lawyers. This will be a hard thing to do as the costs for campaigning are high and really outrageous. But with new methods of communications and such it...

With the Fed going more socialist one thing you might see over the next 4 years is a thing called downloading. This is where the Fed takes some of the things it is responsible for paying and instead downloads it to the states. Then it'll take a larger share of some social program (such as...

There are loads out there in Ontario going all over the province and into Quebec. The pay part is the rough one in that if you were the one billing or being paid the amounts the companies want to pay then ok they actually do pay alright. If billing through a company and only receiving a share...

It is protocol and etiquette to bow to royalty. If you follow ranking then a President is below a Royal Prince who is below a Queen and then a King. An Emperor is higher than a King. Hence it is protocol accepted around the world that you bow for respect of their position. Rob

FYI most units in europe are sold with standard transmissions. Few are sold with automatics unless MB has changed its vehicle offerings. Same for the Volkswagen LT (almost exact same van but uses TDI engine). Some of the RSN was cured or extremely reduced in several units by topping up the...

If they are drum brakes then adjustment is required every 20,000 miles (read the owners manual) as the auto adjusters just do not work fully or properly. I know this as I had to have my gm adjusted several times over 5 years. For some reason the auto adjusters just don't work as well as they...

Quite a few of us utilize spreadsheets. These can be purchased as either stand alones like MS Excel or part of an office package or even in programs like Works which includes wordpro, spreadsheet, and database (one program does lots). The OOIDA has a truckers spreadsheets available for those...

I totally agree with your last line there. Smaller diesels would be great. But alas the american mfrs think bigger is better especially in the motor dept. The Sprinter has shown a smaller engine can be used and do the job. But unfortunately we are stuck with the options they provide. Rob

CharlesD has it right especially with one outfit up here. They reset the software to calculate the shortest route never mind anything like truck routes, low over passes, low weight bridges or other things so the miles changed to less for runs. This is what they based the pricing on. So there...

Ooooh a ditchwitch!!! Handy little machine... Can make money with that thing! Some people can misplace just about anything. Rob

PJ illegals here do get free healthcare! Yup our courts have told the govt to give them coverage while the govt determines their status and also if they just show up at a hospital not a problem. Did you know that the hospitals don't care whose health card you present? Happens here in the GTA...

My cousin on his Int'l got into replacing all kinds of components himself. He had a buddy at a machine shop and he had them fabricate several parts. For the dash panels he utilized sheet metal and custom mounting points (the plastic ones as in your case - broken). This worked out better for...

I saw a box unit that had a sleeper built into the box but they incorporated a cutout in the back of the cab (looked like just the back window cutout) with a flex gasket connection. One other one I saw just this last week was a flatdeck straight with a bunk unit mounted onto the deck and again...

I can remember going thru NYC on July 4 and the kids chucking fireworks off the overpasses (as well as other things). I had a large charge go off under my buggie and thought I had broke something. They even fired roman candles at the trucks and cars. Rob

Well over all Oct was slower than Sept for us. We did less calls for the month and most of those that did come through were short runs so not a lot of miles. Seemed most of our customers were dealing with next door rather than down the highway. It was to the point I had the s/t doing 1 box...

It's been this way since dispatchers came into existence. One or two would always outshine the others. Whether it is attitude, treatment of the drivers or the best, remembering the deeds. I've had this many a time so what do we do? We work with it and learn how to work around it (not always)...

The heavy equipment builders should do well with the stimulus monies for parts and service of which some may filter down to expediters. All these road building projects means parts required for rock crushers, bulldozers, front end loaders, excavators etc. Euro banks like UK and CDN banks...

Well that's been a problem anyways as canadian shippers and importers especially have been doing that for awhile. Part of the reason is there is no GST charged on American cartage bills so a 5% (used to be 7%) savings. Yes they can claim it back but they have to pay it out and also the fact...

Not too sure about your dash but a couple of mine have tabs on the sides which after you remove the screws you have to pry (nicely) the sides back a little to release the tabs on one side and then out comes the cover or whatever. Rob