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Should be months not weeks, at-least 6-8 months of "ALL" expenses before you look into being on your own. Trust me you will be glad you had that money in reserve!!!

Number 1, brokers are not what you want in the long term, companies that you haul for directly are the way to go. You can survive by hauling for brokers but I would not make it your bread and butter so to speak, lot of competition involved with brokers and they have to take there cut too...

On my old van I had lifetime from Firestone. Every where I went they told be it was in spec..asked for before and after print outs everything was green. I was still wearing tires incorrectly. I know how to fool the alignment machine and I am sure they do to. I went to autolab in Marshall...

Hit the nail on the head with that one!! I cross weekly and the CBSA agents are really not that bad. You gotta remember they are protecting there country, just like the CBP agents are protecting ours. I guess when you cross often it makes it easier, I usually cross with only 2 or 3...

Thanks for posting Turtle. I agree with you last sentence. Unfortunately most weigh stations say Commercial Vehicle, Trucks must enter. Not many say Commercial Motor Vehicle must enter. I don't know why so many people think the scale is operated by the DOT or FMCSA :rolleyes: For...

Nova Scotia, anything over 3000kg GVWR they want in there. Good thing is there are not many permanent scales in the Providence.

Yep, he rolled on about 10 mins. after I posted that. :D

Champlain, NY. waiting for the snow.... I see there is a BR unit here from the Fed. Hope he is under a load. I usually do well up here do to lack of units.

Sealed bulk head right where the side doors split. I used plywood for the wall and used a 24" pc of plywood about 18" from the floor bolted to the bulkhead and had the mattress custom made. It is a 66" x 24" x 6" and it has worked well. I also used 2x4's to support the bed plywood to the...

Most of them bids are turnable, so as long as he has 52" in between the wheel wells he should be good. Also notanewbie stated don't make automotive your primary!! He is correct!!! You will have a lot less headaches and you should make more. I gave up the big 3 over 3 years ago and have not...

Easy Target, Stopped in a rest area on I-81 north of Syracuse this a.m. and I saw about 18-20 easy targets in there getting worked over. If all those troopers where out on the interstate I am sure they could of made money off the speeders/wreck-less drivers, but why do that when you can make...

OK, I was going by what I was told Wed. and this morning, both by State troopers. Something in June of this year was changed in regards to units with a 7500 GVW or more having to cross. I was under the impression that the updated law was in direct relation to crossing when we were not required...

MOOSE you quoted my post, that generally (not always) means you are directing your answer to said poster. Had you not quoted my text I would of not quoted yours and answered the way I did.

Yep VA. has said a TRUCK is over 7500 GVW for a long time. In June of this year they lowered the requirement to cross scales to 7500 GVW, I was also reminded this morning in Portsmouth at the container yard/port that I MUST cross the scales, I asked and was told this TODAY as I crossed the...

I no longer have a DOT # since CSA went into effect, I only have a MC# as I do not meet the criteria to have a US DOT# any longer.

What move back into a real TRUCK with air horns and a big ol' shifter, LOL :D

Here is the definition for what VA. calls a truck from the CODE OF VA. site. 46.2-100 "Truck" means every motor vehicle designed to transport property on its own structure independent of any other vehicle and having a registered gross weight in excess of 7,500 pounds.

No warnings formally wrote :D Just advised.

Your last line what do you mean by that this is not true for vans?? Clear as day all TRUCKS above 7500 gvw must cross. In VA. you are a TRUCK if you carry property, there are a few other things that can make a van a TRUCK but the property carrying is the biggest because that is what expedite...

Sorry Greg I took you post the wrong way. Did not mean to shout. I am also going for the unit most pulled over and not ticketed in a years time, So far this year 8 times and no tickets. This is just this year: 4 times window tint 1 suspicious vehicle, runnig 60 in the 75 @ 3 a.m. in a...