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Interesting... One of the first pieces of advice a newbie will get from a veteran is to drive for a fleet owner for 6 months or a year before investing in a truck of their own. Which, of course, is just a fancy way of saying, "Try it out for a while and see if you like it and can do it...

Ah, but that's the beauty of a forum where new people are constantly coming in here and reading things for the first time. Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

My FSC year to date at Panther is 17.65 cents per mile. The fuel cost in this Sprinter is about 13.5 cents per mile at $3 a gallon. Since the FSC is supposed to help defray the cost of fuel, not pay for all of it, there are very few absolutes with my van. In other words, I'm not very likely to...

No deductible in KY, either. The Panther insurance gives you two windshield replacements per year. With a Sprinter you'll rarely find that they can replace it the same day, as most auto glass places will not carry a Sprinter shield in stock, but will have to get it overnighted in. The two that...

The other day I had my mechanic do my DOT inspection. Not the Sprinter tech guy, but my regular mechanic. I had him do it because he's extraordinarily thorough. He said the lower ball joints were a little loose, nothing major, but to keep a close eye on them. I had him replace them. He repacked...

RE: geez!!!! A couple of points. One, I read this site for a long, long time before I became a registered member. There are others who visit regularly and will never register, so someone who hasn't been registered for very long could very well have been reading the site for years. Two...

One thing to keep in mind about this Transportation bill (and its budget) is that it is a combined budget for the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (the Transportation-HUD appropriations budget). Many people believe that HUD's responsibilities are...

RE: Question on Personal/buisiness Laptop Computer I don't do Dell anymore because of their Customer Service. I used to have a really nice, high end Toshiba laptop, widescreen, the whole bit. It was over three grand new. In one year on the road I beat it up to the point where even Greg would...

I was with on a plane that departed from LaGuardia that morning, bound for Los Angeles. We were put down in St Louis. The night before we had dinner at the restaurant atop the World Trade Center. I try not to think about it much. Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

I actually laughed out loud at that one. :D Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

OK, but I give you all fair warning. This is gonna be off topic now, because I have to qualify this by referencing the now-missing posts, which, apparently, are off-topic, even though they weren't. And, because the referencing posts are not there to be referenced, this might maybe quite possibly...

The Panther ad clearly states no CDL is required for cargo vans, but the specific cargo van requirements regarding the CDL isn't mentioned on the Web site. The official stance seems to be that you need a HAZMAT endorsement on your Class C CDL, but they won't kick you out of bed if you don't...

Dreamer, you claim, "No offense meant, no patronizing, no favoritism..." yet the very post that initially took things off track was left untouched. Is that selective moderating? favoritism? patronizing? ... or just plain bad moderating? Let 'em go until things get WOFC is right, and this comes...

I use an ad blocker. Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

Speaking of blankets, if you are short on storage space, at the truck stops you'll find those fleece blankets. They aren't nearly as thick as moving blankets, but they'll do nicely when folded once or twice. It's a good idea to carry a couple of those, anyway, in case you get stranded with no...

It's hard to play by the rules when they are arbitrarily selective and enforced without explanation. I cannot for the life of me figure out why my post was deleted without so much as a PM out of courtesy. That's a slap in the face telling me that not only what I have to say is irrelevant, that I...

Actually, my x-number is 100,000 total miles driven, with 70,000 miles being paid, loaded miles, and 30,000 miles being unpaid, deadhead miles. Rather than my trying to use the engine warranty as a lifespan guide, with is pointless with this Sprinter's engine warranty, and then average it out, I...

Wow. Just a few of the things that go into my CPM include my pay, fuel costs, fuel additives, truck payment, taxes, tolls, oil, filters and other maintenance, tires, meals, lodging, phone, QC, tolls, health insurance, truck insurance, permits and licenses, truck washes, windshield washer fluid...

Many people report success in simply tossing the antenna onto the dash. I know this works in a Sprinter, just not positive of how well it works in the other vans or trucks. Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

For a Sprinter, all you'll probably need (certainly all you'll need to get you started) is a couple of yellow and a couple of gray e-track ratchet straps, a pair of e-track 2x4 brackets (for each pair of e-track you have, i.e., one pair on the floor and one pair on the walls), a 2x4 or a 2x6 for...