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I've done airfreight, I still do out-and-back stuff to this day. I can tell you the straight scoop from personal experience: Having half of your miles being unpaid deadhead miles ain't no way to earn a living. It DOES have the advantage that you spend your downtime at home rather than waiting at...

S'OK, you want "honest"? Here it is: It's doggone hard to make any money when half of your miles are unpaid "deadhead" miles. In the example given, we have a guy who makes 1.25 per loaded mile. That's really great, and many EO vanners wish they could touch that. Now for the problem: After...

Thinking about it some more, I'd rather run for one company that wants me to have their signs on my vehicle as long as they keep me reasonably working. It's simpler all the way around. One set of paperwork (I've been running for old-fashioned outfits, no computer stuff), one set of signs, one...

Been there, done that, got the Tee-shirt: One company that keeps you moving beats the pants off of five companies that don't. Also, since as a general rule you can only run one company's freight at any one time, keeping all those plates in the air gets tiring after awhile and there just isn't...

It's nearly impossible to get a dashboard odometer to be spot-on, we just live with the variance. Even if you could get it exact, say with brand-new tires, over time your tires will wear and there will be a variable. We haven't had speedometer cables since the mid 1990s, no help there. Today...

Now we come to the place of bargaining. What are you willing to sell for, and what is the purchaser willing to pay. I see a 7 year old van with nearly half a million miles on the original engine and transmission. I expect to have to replace both of these soon enough, regardless of how well they...

If they want to get PO'd because I'm disapproving, then so be it. I take my religion seriously, and nowhere in the book does it say I'm supposed to "write a blank check" for everything the LGBT community puts on its wish-list.

If it has to be financed: The banks aren't going to like this, Yogi. Once again, that odometer bites you in the posterior-- and the advanced age of the van doesn't help it either. Shoot, if you can afford to do it I would side with those who say "keep it". You know the condition of this...

You'll find out--- that odometer is a killer. When people see that number, they start thinking "scrap" regardless of how well the vehicle has been kept. Hearing that the tranny and engine are original with that number of miles increases the thoughts of scrap. I have a '98 Chevy right now with...

These things give me headaches. I've stayed out of TA/Petro since the "Reward Yourself" thread, where I got the idea that since I drive a gasoline-powered van I'm not exactly welcome in the TA/Petro Truck Stop. Now this thread says Pilot/Flying J is ripping off customers on rebates (I never did...

Now you have my curiousity. I have one of those fans, never used it much and always on its own battery. I have old-fashioned door locks and window cranks so it can't mess that up, it probably makes so much noise that playing the radio with it on is impossible anyway, no TV, the only question...

If they didn't do it, who did? I don't hire drivers, but if I did I think a standard walk-around inspection before turning the truck over to the new driver would be standard. Photos are a big help too, that way you have documented proof that "those marks weren't there when we gave the truck...

I installed a vent on a Ford like that. I never was able to get a good, leakproof seal, and since at the time I delivered paper products that was a bit of a problem. I always carried plastic drop-cloth material for the purpose of protecting the freight in case of rain. These days, the...

Er-- ahhhh--- about that--: When I traded in my Ford for the Sprinter, my wife had a fit. See, the Ford was paid off and all, and she just couldn't see that the Sprinter (a) made more money and (b) had dramatically lower fuel costs. She just didn't see that I needed the larger vehicle, though at...

OK, I'll admit that bothers me. A cut-away van with a box, single rear wheels-- how do you manage any meaningful payload at only 9,900 GVWR? I'll have to agree with asjssl that the fuel mileage has to be the pits too. Your box truck has a nearly identical payload rating to my standard van, and...

Just the other day while taking a rest break, I walked past a rig and heard the unmistakable sound of a single-cylinder engine on the truck. It wasn't a refrigerated rig, besides those make a different noise anyway. Sure enough, the guy had an auxiliary power unit on the other side of the...

You don't need more regulation. Enforce the laws already on the books,that will be a big help. Example: The doofus in Bob Wolfe's example. Overweight vehicle, probably bad maintenance and way overtired, this guy was undoubtedly giving probable cause for being stopped long before he had the...

The Memorial Day Holiday is the traditional start of the Summer driving season. Usually, we've had a march upwards since January in gas prices, this year has been a bit unusual that way in that nationwide gas prices have actually dropped most of that time. We're in the last couple of weeks...

Half that payload weight was over his limit. Problem with those Penske trucks is that they're not set up for much. Move my furniture from one house to another-- great! It'll do that no problem. Try to move a lot of stuff that's heavy-- big problem. That truck has something like a 7,500 empty...

I have a question. Just giving this thread the quick once-over, I have to ask how much of the desire to regulate light trucks/CVs has anything to do with safety-- which, some folk DO push the envelop to the braking point, you know good and well that those "Tonka Trucks" are way over 10K...