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If you think the speed limiter is bad they are also adding in the no using electronic devices law as well. It'll be tabled this coming week and if everyone who said they'll back it does it could pass in two weeks. So not only do you get to drive slower, you'll have to have a handsfree system...

The stupid thing about this particular part of roadway is there is a large sign after you exit the highway going east that says no trucks allowed on Tomken from Eastage to Eglinton. Now eastgate is the road going straight from the highway exit ramp. So not only did this guy not read the large...

How else is the US gov't going to pay for all those projects if it doesn't have somewhere to make a profit?? Let's be nice as they really do need the money. All those golden retirment plans the gov't has cost a lot to maintain. I could see having a canadian firm do the work as they are...

Layout just a point here. The birds egg is quite different from the human develpoment in so far as the birds egg develops entirely outside the mothers body and only utilizes heat from the mother sitting on it. A human embryo, zygot etc depends entirely on the mothers body for nutrients and...

I know a few guys running the 6.0 doing hotshot runs and they like it. They are getting better fuel economy than the previous engine in the gm vans. Couple have over 300,000 miles on their motors with few problems (belt, alternator). Personally I prefer a diesel but then I put 500,000 on a...

You guys got D2s! I have a D5 unit. Have to look at the D2 or is that a gas version? Mine is diesel and uses little fuel. Rob

We have a customer that gets in small amounts of hazmat goods but the loads are one small skid or smaller (under 500lbs) but we get the load because their own driver refuses to pickup the goods. No placards required. Another customer has us pickup compressed gas and around here upto 5 cyl can...

Overall my runs are not so many long hauls. I'm doing more shorties but also getting a few with backhauls as the company has definitely gotten into the diversified customer base. Now we haul almost anything. Moulds are good as one skid, expedited delivery and a lot of times a return load...

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...

Well layout we could do that but unfortunately it's only the brokers who are fighting it and not the trucking industry. The Ontario Trucking Assoc and the Quebec version and the Maritimes ones are all behind this regulation. The larger corps want the rule to help them be competitive although I...

While we all can agree running at 65 or lower is better for fuel economy it is the bigger companies who are pushing for these limitations. The public is as well because of the sensational crashes involving trucks. Now we know what's going to happen is the line of slower trucks and the...

Since everyone is so unhappy with the two current political parties, why not start a third national party? Since this takes time and effort (creative money management) why not this time utilize the write in vote but organize, e-mails, faxes, tel calls etc to create that message of real change...

Still high up here at 3.93/US gal in Ontario. That's the cheapest I've found so far (1.039/L). Rob

Last January I delivered a locomotive engine to a train yard in New Brunswick. Minus 17f out but they had the thing apart to accept the new engine. Rob

You would not need a heavy sleeping bag with a big newfie for a riding partner. Rob

Amazing how a thread goes awry. But re the newfie and costs to feed somewhere around $100 or so per week. I used to work for a pool company and the one they had was massive. Near 300lbs and they used to put a saddle on it for the younger kids to ride (not kidding). The dog could run even at...

I say check them out some more. ONe of the larger hot shot out fits I know does not do its interviews in their office but where ever they can agree on. The brokers cheques used to be left with a gas station for them to pickup and drop off paperwork. A few guys worked there for two years and...

Yeah size matters as a miniature poodle takes up the space of a big hat and a full grown Newfoundland takes the space of a skid. Although I pity the thief in the truck with the newfie.

That's close to the spelling for a european.

A shame really. I was past the St. Thomas plant back over a month ago and they had a load of buggies just sitting in the yard. Rob