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At the moment a laptop even though it's a P2 that's about 15 years old. I've got a portable battery & fan. Also I have a rocking chair in there. The chair is small enough that I can put it upside down in the passenger seat if I'm fully loaded. I have a 12 volt cooler also. I've had that...

I drive a B unit, so that's some of the challenge. I work for Metro now, but even when I worked for 2 companies simultaneously before the challenge was the same. Metro has some pretty good dispatchers from what I can gather. From what I can tell they're pro-active. They're the ones who...

In this incarnation of expediting I've noticed on thing that hasn't happened when I was in this before. There's a lot more runs that leave the midwest. That part of things is good. I'm finding I like longer runs better than the 300 or so milers. The bad news in this is I'm finding that when...

It helped a lot. Your MPG is about the same as mine when ya factor in the speeds we drive. I'm usually in the 17-18 range, but usually keep it under 67. I only have a 3/4 ton though. Thanx for your response.

Blizzard, out of curiousity what type of milage do ya get w/ that vehicle? And what year is it? thanx.

I'm more of a spurt type workout person. Work out for awhile, then stop, then start up again, etc. Spring is def. time to start up again. I have a Bowflex. It's the real old one, basic version. I had wanted to get this in my van. Now I've seen some bands (rubber, not music :D) that...

We're sort of in the same boat here. Although I'm w/ a company I'm looking at getting a bigger vehicle than my 250. From what I've gathered from this site, it's height more than anything that you'll want to consider. 2 skids is pretty common. I wouldn't think a cube van will get ya that much...

If I'm not mistaken the ones who need the 2nd income (or spartan lifestyle) tend to be the cargo van drivers. Fleet owners tend to own straight trucks or bigger. There is not enough $$$ in a cargo van to support 2 entities generally. Husband/wife, father/son or something like that can do...

I have a little bit different opinion on the room. I'm not disagreeing w/ those who have the set up to be in their van for a few days. For those that don't though, getting a room in moderation is an ok thing to do. Then ya can save some $$ for a better vehicle along w/ getting a hotel. I...

Yes I set them. Sometimes I fall a bit short, but am still heading in the right direction. Or I make a detour by choice. An example is back in Jaunary I was hoping to have all credit cards paid off by April. That might have been a little ambitious. I've now got July as a target date. The...

Good Q. My first thought was also Memphis. I'd just head to Nashville. Ironic ya both mention Detroit, I'm in Flint & often have a tough time getting out. I'm not sure how I'll work it, but come summer I won't be to thrilled to sit around any place that gets over 100 degrees. I've never...

Thanx Greg, That was the angle I was looking for. There had to be a reason that they'd stick w/ QC if Nextel was so much cheaper. I just wasn't sure what it was. Hence the Q.

I think if they do it's got nothing to do w/ em being dispatchers & more just the general percentage of people who lie. I'm pretty happy w/ the one's I deal with now. I've generally been happy w/ the ones in the past also, except for one company. That had more to do w/ em waking me up every...

I had generally had a negative feeling towards Qualcom & such, mainly because of the cost. My current company uses satellite, though they use Nextel GPS. For the first month I didn't really see the big deal in it one way or the other. Yesterday though, I was driving thru Tenn. I was...

Oh, that's just our resident hypocrite KerNaL off pop-pOp-PoPPin his jaws off. If ya notice in his post below he wails on about the employee mentality, as if wanting to get paid makes one an employee. Other times he'll talk about how people should be running a business, & then reams the...

Turtle & Dynamite had some interesting responses. Not that others didn't but those 2 stuck out the most to me. Everyone has a different definition of successful. Some tried it & it didn't work out. There's a fair amount of reasons for that. I don't view those people as failures though...

There is no perfect company. I'm not the first or the last who's gonna say that though. A good company would be 1 who's honest w/ ya, gets ya enough loads to make a decent living, pays ya on time as agreed upon, seems to care about ya w/out babysitting ya. A fine line there I know...

Hey Greg, I've always had a tough time getting the exact cpm for any vehicle because the miles one may get during a particular month can vary. Ie, a $700 payment + 300 insurance on a van getting only 4000 miles/month is quite high. If that same van can get 10K miles/month it's obviously a...

Found the used trucks & also see that a lot of these vehicles are more than $7500. So my numbers were a bit off. Still a vehicle I'd consider though.

I came to this thread to ask this very Q, what kind of MPG does this thing get? Now that it's answered, do ya get a fair amount of C runs w/ this truck or is it mostly Bs? 12 MPG seems tough. At the same time if the vehicle is thousands less than a Sprinter, that's a lot of gas. I ran some...