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A while ago in another topic, I forget which one, some drivers including myself talked about the mess that is made when changing oil on our Onan generators. Tight space and a shield near the horizontally-mounted oil filter makes it difficult to remove the filter without spilling oil. DaveKC...

In May, 2003, two months before Diane and I drove an expediting truck for the first time, I started a thread about hybrid trucks and wondered how long it would be before heavy-duty hybrid trucks would hit the market. "Not in our lifetime" was the collective answer of the voices of experience...

Spotted this Class 7, single-rear-axle, 84" sleeper, CR unit at a pickup today. Interesting truck.

Questions and comments about popular computer and handheld navigation programs are ongoing in the Open Forum. It occured to me to gather together a handful of expediters with their products of choice to put these products to the test. An ExpeditersOnline and/or Expedite NOW article about real...

Spotted this truck at TA in Ontario today when we went there for showers and then left to set up for tomorrow's pick up. The truck was buttoned up so I was unable to talk to the driver(s). The graphics and chrome on this SST-100 are the nicest I've seen on one of those "Jeff Jones specials."

It has been a while since the new rules went into effect regarding HAZMAT endorsements (fingerprinting, background check, fee increases to cover the costs of both). Soon after the new rules were in place, a number of driver complaints were heard about the process. Some industry publications...

Just a test post to see if my Avatar image works. For info about the program I used to make it, see: http://www.expeditersonline.com/dcforum/DCForumID1/5572.html

Some of you may have noticed that I am sharing more photos on EO than I used to. That is because I stumbled across a neat little program that makes it a breeze to resize digital photos for easy posting here. The program is called Resizer. You can download it free at...

Truck photos are always fun to look at. This is an invitation to those who have them to post photos of big-sleeper expediting trucks they have seen. It can be your own truck or others, straight truck or tractor. There are a bunch of big-sleeper trucks out there. Let's see and hear more about...

On our way to Toronto in the middle of the night last week, we spotted this truck at a Fifth Wheel truck stop. If the drivers were inside, they were asleep so we did not bother them. It would have been fun to visit about the truck. Does anyone know who built this truck and how it is working out...

Got the truck washed and hand waxed today. They washed it and then hand waxed it from front to back, top to bottom, including the cab and sleeper roofs. Total cost: $145. The truck wash is located on U.S. 52 and State Highway 58 in Zumbrota, Minnesota, north of Rochester, south of Saint Paul.

This is a question for the Four Star award winners. FedEx Custom Critical Four Star Award winners will be selected based on their performance from June 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007. With May 31 about a month away, I am wondering what, in ball park terms, run count number will qualify this year's top...

From time to time, people talk about building cabover expediter trucks. Custom built cabovers have been done. This is a photo of a custom-built cabover truck Glen Rice built in 1985. It is a 1985 Kenworth K100E. He bought the cab new for $81,000. The sleeper conversion cost $19,900. It is a...

Need a Truck Wash? The National Biosecurity Resource Center for Animal Health Emergencies is here to help. Your homeland security tax dollars at work. We have used this database a few times to find truck washes in areas where we used to believe truck washes could not be found...

A recent Land Line article talks about how Kansas troopers are riding in trucks and using a camera system to nail four-wheelers that commit violations around trucks. http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2007/Apr07/041607.htm/041607-02.htm The system used is designed and installed by...

Tyson Foods Turning Fat Into Fuel http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/04/16/business/041707apriltysonconoco.txt

People researching a career move into expediting have a lot to think about; trucks, business practices, home time, carrier choice, etc. Something not often mentioned here in the Open Forum is illness. It is something to think about. You are a thousand miles from home and become too ill to...

Put in tinyurl. LDB As the Rice thread was getting long, Lawrence asked me to post this in a new thread that he will lock. The longer thread can be read at: http://tinyurl.com/2bvef3 Cherri said: > I hope that Glen & Janice know that they can count on a >lot of EO members, if there's...

This can't be real, can it? I saw this link on Google's home page for the first time on April 1st (April Fool's Day). They're kidding, aren't they? http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

Bummer today, sort of. With 108,000 miles on our truck, we replaced our first set of steer tires. While the treads had 8/32" remaining, cupping had begun. Knowing the tires had only more cupping to look forward to, and being serious about keeping our truck in tip-top condition, we replaced old...