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This is one of those deals where you can get by with it for a short time, and that's what tricks you into thinking you can get away with it indefinitely. Sure, you can run the Espar off of the starting battery--- for a short time. But, each time you do it you shorten the life of the starting...

That must be a FedEx thing. I picked up at JAL, at O'Hare, on Tuesday and didn't go through anything like Moot is describing. Pickups I've done at the American and United cargo buildings haven't been like that, either. Standard thing at JAL: Give your paperwork to the person behind the counter...

I've been considering whether to get a generator, but even a reasonably small unit "big enough for the job" is a couple of thousand just for the unit itself. Then it has to be mounted, and you have to figure out power distribution. That doesn't even count getting a unit big enough to run an air...

I would hesitate buying new anything anyway. You're going to be putting 40K plus interest into a van that you can easily put 100K miles a year on. The possibility of running the van into the ground before the payment book is kaput is very real, and now you have a 4 year old van with half a...

I claim advantage. My van is too low to scramble under easily (it can be done, but you really have to want to) and besides, my basic operating principle concerning truck stops-- any of them-- is "get in fast, do what you have to do, get out fast". It's very rare indeed that I'll spend much time...

Part-time while doing this full-time is the nature of the beast. Even during "busy" time it's rare for me to fill out more than four days in any given week, and during quiet times it's not unheard of to do only one three-hundred mile run all week. Whether you can make that work with any other...

Absolutely ANYTHING near that Pilot in Ft. Wayne is gonna be chancy at best. I've had my CB on from time to time, and-- if you have to do any business near there, get in and get out.

Four Ways Inn, Muscle Shoals AL gets my vote as the worst so far. The bed wasn't bad, but-- the bathroom was the size of a small closet, and when I took a shower before leaving I found that the bathtub was mounted considerably higher than normal. I fell when I exited the tub since the floor was...

I'd hate to tell you how many times I've had "1 piece at 1 lb", and when you get there it's several pieces, the lightest piece takes two men and a boy to lift one edge of it. The gal in the front office who placed the order had no idea of pieces and weight. Oh, yeah, about those dimensions: 48"...

And you just proved to all that you have no concept of common courtesy. Congratulations. Now.. back on thread. There's a Honda dealership not far from my place, so I took a trip there just to see what's what. As stated, you can't get a locking gas cap for this generator. The reason is that...

Tony, in truth I have no idea. I know my photos have uploaded, whether I was doing it from my computer or using photos from another website. One of the mods might know, and the site administrator should be able to help.

OK. In my experience, the starter frame is grounded to the engine block by simply mounting the starter to the engine/transmission bell housing. Can't screw that up. After that, there's two or three screws on the starter solenoid, and here it IS possible to get something wrong. The first screw...

Somewhere in all the blather about "real truckers" vs CVers, we lost a thread about locking gas caps. Maybe we can find it again. In the meantime, if you want to make ME think you're a "professional trucker" regardless of vehicle size and number of wheels, you might try a little common courtesy...

Illinois is a bit weird, you have to obey "truck speed limit" if you're over 8,000 lbs--- but you don't have to scale until you're over 16,000 lbs. I don't know---- seems to me 33,000 is pushing the limit for a two-axle straight any way you want to slice it. You're asking an awful lot of mere...

Invent something. It's already been suggested, but since in this case there doesn't appear to be a store-bought answer to the question that's what you'll have to do. Head to the hardware store, buy some strapping material, a few nuts and bolts-- I have an idea that castellated nuts and cotter...

Earlier in this thread, there is some mention of running the inverter from the main starting battery. Whatever you do, don't do this. It's tempting, but if you do, you'll kill the starting battery way before its time. It was never designed for that type of load, and even if you somehow manage to...

I'm sitting here thinking of generators, inverters, secondary batteries---- and a switch-panel that looks like it came out of a B-17. Which it probably did. So, how do you keep your electricals down to a wild party in there???

For what it's worth: Figure a standard Chevy or Ford CV to be 10 feet from the back of the seats to the rear doors. An extended CV will add 18" to that. Not quite enough for 3 48" skids, but it IS 18" longer and that can be "enough" to load loose when you might otherwise not have been able to...

Quickie update: That temperature-sensitive load went to another driver. One skid, it couldn't be easily kept in a container (if it had been possible, I would have done it). It delivered to a farmhouse that lacked refrigeration, so I guess that worked out. Instead, I got three small boxes of...