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On the earlier Sprinters and probably on the newer ones we have a prob with it keeping temp in the cold weather in slow traffic and idling. I've found by setting the heater temp control to the top of the blue(cold) or in the middle of the white (basically half way) I could keep heat coming out...

It appears the Liberal government is about to introduce a law to restrict use of electronic devices by drivers. They have included, cell phones, computers, GPS units and blackberries and related devices, e-mailing and text messaging while driving will be an absolute nono. Probably the law will...

A couple of days ago I was driving my Sprinter and noticed the police were ticketing trucks on a short part of Tomken Rd in Mississauga south of Eglinton Av which is a No Truck zone (except deliveries to those businesses there). Anywho on my way back to the area (less than an hour later) I saw...

Tomorrow the 14th is the federal election day in Canada. There are 4 main parties of which only 3 have seats in parliament (green party has no elected members). So after 15:00 hrs in each time zone you may see an increase in traffic if voter turn out is good (probably not as cdns seem to be...

Tomorrow is cdn thangsgiving so nothing open of interest like beer stores or liquor stores or at least not in Ontario. So stock up today and enjoy the day off tomorrow. I know we are all losing a day of work but we have to think of those poor sods working hard in the factories and the...

So how many have been loaded on a friday nite long weekend with a delivery for a place that is supposed to be open after 1800hrs?? I got a load for a place in brampton ont and of course long weekend so it seems everyone took off early!! Yup no one there so keeping load 'till tuesday...

I was wondering how the canuck boys are doing now??? My outfit has been on a steady increase in business for the last 4 months. Although not a large or fast increase it has steadily been improving. The last two months are definitely up from earlier in the year with less and less sitting...

Well the Higbury Rd exit is open again so west bound has access to Highbury for the flying j. Wilton Grove is also reopened so accessing the business park south of the 401 is easier. Now the repaving on the 401 between Guelph and Milton is also almost finished (finally) so better traffic...

The last week I've noticed on almost all the highways that traffic in general has slowed down a bit. It is now possible to pass someone while only doing the speed limit (62mph) rather than the usual 110kph (close to 70mph). Except for the 427 on the west side of Toronto all the other major...

Thought I'd put this here for more to catch. Canada Day is July 1 but since that is a tuesday next week us expeditors will have a small prob delivering. Some companies are closed on the actual day (tues), some are closed on the monday and others are taking both days. My outfit has customers...

Today near noon 8 tractor trailers were involved along with a pickup truck in an accident on the 401 westbound near Mavis Rd exit in Mississauga. of course in this stretch the trucks are just getting upto speed so usually are following too close and this appears to be the case of them all...

Today is the 18th of Feb and the first Family Day. The Ont gov't when it was re-elected in Oct last year made this holiday (one of the few election promises kept). So we are supposed to be enjoying a day off. Quite afew businesses have closed for the day and others are just keeping things...

The Ontario Provincial Police are at it again against truckers. This time it's for the month (Feb) and they are after speeding, non signalling, following too close, unsafe loading, low trie pressures, you name the problem they are looking for you to get a ticket. Mostly though it is a move to...

I have been looking at trucks to buy for the last few months (becomig fleet owner). One thing that has bothered me has been some of the lighting systems on many of the trucks. They seem .... well sort of lacking. Now reason I say this is that in most trucks we sit higher and farther back...

Ok so some old foggies (fuddy duddies, which half of us are approaching) can do this thing. For most of us we do not have all day to spend figuring out which button does what.... Ok so some of us do as we wait for a call. However there are some who don't as we do not have access from the...

The price of diesel has hit around the 3.78/us gal here and in quebec it is even higher around 4.10 or so (depends on station of course). So for the near future word is that it'll get a little more expensive before getting cheaper. We'll have to wait and see. Rob

Anyone driving a load into Ontario and you go past Toronto, the highway 401 at the west end of Oshawa will be closed from 1201 Sunday morning to 0800 Sunday morning. They are building a new interchange there for Stevenson road which will make deliveries to the GM plants a lot faster. Closure...

What has been one of your strangest or odd deliveries you've done? Just reading some post and getting a laugh today, but was curious about others strange calls. I had one last fall where the unit was supposed to fit through the front door (I was at the back door). Unfortunately some one made...

I utilize a pencil case type thing with three pockets (closable). Then of course take them inside when ever and file them on my desk. But what I'm really interested in is what do you do to retain readable copies of those thermal receipts you get? I used to scan and copy these into files on my...

Well the fuel crisis in Southern Ontario seems to be over. At least the availability problem has been solved and the oil companies are suppling fine at this time. The pricing has started to come down from the high of 99.9 cents per litre (much higher in northern part of province). However the...