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What happened to safety?

What's your contract say?

I would get it into a carrier dealer and have them look at the HP sensor and one of the temp sensors, both of these were problems for me at one time with an EOR error. You do have your little service manual and the large operators manual, I think they both have the errors listed in them.

Bearcat, That's interesting. I may be wrong so I'm wrong. What's the emissions sticker say? Is it an exempt engine?

Wow I didn't see where it says i have to get my windows changed to go into California.

I will repeat this advice - TAKE NOTE. Get the largest van that can carry the most weight. It will not limit you in any way and may only cost you pennies in the long run in comparison to a smaller lighter van.

What do you mean follow in Henry Ford's tracks? I don't remember in reading Ford's history that he raised $300M and got $465M to build a car and then went to a foreign country to build it so it can be imported into the US market. I think Tesla is the example of a lack of a need driving an...

Here is what I have to have EVERY YEAR. I have to have a record of my blood sugar, A1c test results if I had one recently and a letter from my GP/IN saying I am under treatment for type 2. I get a lecture every year about controlling it and the song and dance about what happens if I don't...

Rob, The law is still on the books but the enforcement is dependent on the roving patrols and the officer doing the spot checks. They seem not to care until someone complains about it in Lansing. The other part is, you better have signs on the van if you do get pulled over by one of these...

Actually OVM there may be a bunch of people who agree with me. I am not really just talking about a regulatory thing but a common sense thing and makes the difference between a professional driver and a fricken yahoo cowboy. By the way the common sense thing works both ways, vans or trucks, so...

You know the real problem is that no one knows why Michigan is 'broke'. It is not just a governor, it is not just the state, it has to do with the people themselves and the idea that we have to be a union state or that there are invisible forces not allowing people to find jobs. I listened to...

Chef, No offense but I would like to see more about other issues, we already know about Obama and all the stuff. I know you have a passion for it, not a problem but we lack balance here in this forum. We can't change a thing about him, he is president like it or not but we can cut off his...

Leo, You hit it on the head. The problem is that many of the people driving vans feel that 'dispatch' is in control. Some even go so far as to think that if they refuse the load, the company may not give them another. This mind set seems to be as much of a problem as the idea that vans...

Guido, I am not trying to argue with you, I am poking fun at the people who are my source. They test these engines and run them in different configuration but there is something they always miss. There were a number of E450 chassis' that were produce one year that had van bodies put on them...

That's fine Guido. I am listening too much to the people who work at Ford, got to stop doing that. What do they know? On my 3500 dodge, I got the thing with a 5 inch and it was ok but when I hit something in the road and the muffler kind of gotten messed up, I ended up with a 4 inch system...

OK so how would you like $65,000 for a new truck? His idea is to create a real cash for tractors program where the government gives you $65,000 for a new truck while scrapping your older one. The new truck will run on Natural Gas and will help the environment and make Pickens richer. There...

You know that every company seems to have some limits but they are applied differently. Here is something that I have had happen a few times. I was offered a load for 850 miles for my van after sitting for a day and a half, the dispatcher said "we have to cross dock the load because you are...

There is a point that the modifications become a trade off. Exhaust for example becomes useless unless the cat is removed, the turbo changed out and the ecm reprogrammed. All three of those things matter, the cat is the biggest restriction in line but the the turbo is another.

5" is an overkill, all you need is a 3.5" because you have a turbo in line which most likely you won't be changing that out and because you have a cat in between you are further restricted but it will make a big difference compared to your 2.5-3" setup. I have found several place to bent 3.5"...

Lawrence, It seems that many are making a big deal about it but those same truckers complain about the speed limiter law and other Canadian issues without understanding that it is indeed a foreign country. Yes I think it will hit our shores, nope... stop....make that already hit our shores...