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Please don't open up that can of worms. Traveling 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Living in a 7x12 metal box on wheels. I've seen a few that have up to 3 large dogs living with them. Eating crappy food, taking showers in gas stations, looking forward to driving 1000 miles from the heat of...

Hope everything is okay with the van. We keep looking at the Sprinter and just can't pull the trigger because of photos like this one. Go down town to Arthur Bryants and get some good BBQ. You will be back on the road in no time.

Thank you for a place to learn, share and help us grow a successful business. We would be much less informed if not for EO. It's a blessing to know that we are not the only fools in a van, crossing the land, eating meals out of a can, not fit for woman or man. Sleeping in the car, traveling...

We went the other way and are in Ft. Worth. Taking a couple weeks off for medical reasons but it is much easier to get a load out of Texas. Would love to winter in Florida, but would have to DH to Atlanta to get a run. Enjoy the sun, get a tan, have a few drinks with umbrella's, then get ur...

The Forum is a great way to keep in touch with friends and learn/share information on the industry as a whole and information on each company within the industry. It helped us make the decision to join the vanner lifestyle and we have avoided some mistakes along the way partially because of the...

While we are talking about Sprinters. Do MB or Freightliner offer an extended warranty that cover repairs out to 300K miles? I looked on line and could not find one. I never take out an extended warranty cuz I believe they are not fiscally responsible in most cases, but the Sprinters have...

We went to a really good mexican restaurant on the north side of Laredo. I can't recall the name but it is in the parking lot with the La Quinta hotel. The waiters spoke very little english. Oh, and they had a blind mexican piano player that played broadway show tunes. (I know that this...

It sounds like the 3500 (9,990) might be a great expediter rig if you don't mind raising the floor a little. This would allow for a nice living quarters and still have 2500#s for freight. The maintenance and repairs cost is still a huge concern for us.

The plywood I used is taller than the E-track by about 1/4 inch so the skids don't usually come in contact with it. I have had a metal tote slide onto it and I just slid it out the back door with no damage to the E-track. It's tough stuff.

Plywood and E-track attached with self tapping screws has worked great for me. Make sure you pre drill the holes first and put a bit stop on the drill bit so you don't drill into something like a fuel line or wiring. Also, don't know how anyone lives without the board pockets that pop into...

We had a sensor go out on our van. We placed it in the shop over the weekend and got a room and rental car to get our stuff from the van to the hotel. Lucky for us the van was still barely under warranty and the repairs were covered. They even paid one day of the rental car. It still cost us...

Don't start as a fleet driver in a van unless you have some cash saved up for a slow start. You never know how quickly a fleet owner will pay you. We had to bail out a couple in a van week before last because they were cold and hungry with no $$$ and no fuel to run the engine for heat. The...

One successful van o/o I know with FedEx told me that in 21 years he had never paid more than $9000 for his van. He has done well and does not have any payments. Makes sense to me.

Oh, this cabin looks much better than the mobile homes I found at Stover, Missouri. Everything else looks the same. Cept ol Jed was such a good shot, how did he miss and hit the oil? Hollywood always forgets the details.

If you would like to live on a lake in Missouri, there is a mobile home for sale on Lake of the Ozarks for $5,000 and another for $9,000. The water is just a few feet away. It's just out side of Stover. Pay cash, live like no one else, so some day you can live like no one else. Not a...

Life is made up of dreams, hopes, disappointments, and a lot of water under the bridge that we can never get back. Somewhere along the journey, you end up in a van watching the world pass you by and every time you reach you destination, another one takes it's place. Thank God we are in this...

If you don't hear a good rumor by 09:00 then you have to start your own.

Do I know how to stir up trouble or what?

Can union members be bought? DUH!!! More important question, if a union member divorces his wife are they still cousins?

As a team we have done okay this week. It started Tues with a run from Atlanta to New Jersey, then to Decatur then another from Missouri back to New Jersey that delivers Mon am. About 2700 miles total, and hope to get one more run Monday to deliver Tues. So far we are the only team up here...