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I got curious so I looked it up. Nope, those of us who drive vans don't play with IFTA. According to the lies I read, IFTA applies to vehicles having two axles that weigh more than 26,000 lbs(!) or any commercial vehicle having three axles or more regardless of weight, or combination vehicles in...

Thinking about what Moot had to say about the top of the doors: I got curious so I measured mine. Depending on where exactly you make the cut-- this is a custom job so where the cut is made is up to you-- you will get at least a 48" opening at the top of the doors. I measured past the curve to...

I'm not sure about the newer GMs, I don't think they changed much. My '98 would certainly have the room "if" it weren't already so long in the tooth that just keeping it maintained is a project. A newer GM-- I'd do it.

You want the doors raised if it can be done, though. Think of it: You have clearance once inside for 72", but your rear doors will only allow 48" height-- you're losing 24" capacity for loading skids without having to break them down. It doesn't take too many loads that you have to refuse...

Guido is right, look under "mobility". They make these vans for handicapped people, making high doors to clear the wheelchair lift is a common thing. All you're doing is re-purposing the van.

That may not be possible. Try as I might, I can't locate "Nutty conspiracy theories" on these forums. Soapbox comes closest, but still not quite.

Right now, there's not a lot of good Sprinter advice. The only really good years seem to be '05, '06 and '07. Before then they had "teething troubles", after that EPA pollution equipment and a larger engine which needs more fuel have conspired to kill it. About the "good years"-- Turtle and OVM...

I had a chance to see one of these the other day. It was an Enterprise van, the tall version. My impression: It was short. Too short for two skids. If you load the freight loose, though, it may be that the cubic capacity is similar to a standard CV. Hard to tell. The height of the van I saw...

I had to buy a door switch for my Sprinter. The new switch had a VW emblem on it. That's not surprising, I have a suspicion most of those German cars share a lot of similar parts, only the name changes to protect the guilty.

I was listening to this on the radio last night. It struck me that a trailer boat is a bad place to hide when the shooting starts, those boats aren't designed to resist bullets.

I've lived in Chicago-- in a couple of bad neighborhoods-- and I'm still alive. Gee, I wonder how that happened since I was-- and am-- unarmed? To read some of you, it should be impossible to exist without an AR-15 just to walk from my house to the 7-11 which is half a block away, and I should...

Following this thread, I'm not sure which is more bizarre. The story that's unfolding even as we try to follow it, or the cockamamie conspiracy theories about secret government agencies trying to control the masses. Special note for the gun-ho types: If a criminal already has the drop on you...

Maybe a combination. If the rebates weren't paid but were reported to the IRS as a business expense, that's fraud and would bring in the IRS because of the taxes on falsely reported income. The FBI gets involved because it involves interstate dealings.

Dragging this thread up to the light of day so others can see it didn't hurt anything. Unless I'm mistaken, we have some newbies floating around who could use a set-up tip or two, and this thread is one of those set-up threads.

I live here. If you don't have to go through the city, don't. 294 is usually fairly quick. It's toll, but not unreasonable as Illinois tollways go. When I pick up at a Northern suburb and have a run to Battle Creek, Michigan, Garmin will invariably try to route through the Loop and down...

Jogging?? Pffft. If you see me running, you'd better start running too because something really large is chasing me.

The first week of the month, what else? It'll pick up as the month progresses, probably a bit crazy towards the end as everybody tries to close out the month. Then, dead again the first week of the next month.

I have an AM/FM radio. When I bother with it at all, I'm choosing between country music and Christian contemporary music. I avoid Coast to Coast like the plague, it's pretty solid conspiracy and space alien stuff. If you believe your wife is a space alien who is spying on you for the CIA and the...

I stand by my original statement. At 12,300 they have capacity. At under 10,000 the capacity is near zip. Problem is, once you go over that magic 10K they lose the under 10K advantages and start having to follow all the DOT regs that they're undoubtedly skipping now. So, you have a heavy box...

The thing that bothers me about these things is that they seem to have low weight limits. A box truck with a less-than-10,000 GVWR has almost no payload capacity, drinks fuel-- usually gasoline-- at an alarming rate and because it is what it is, will attract the attention of the DOT cops sooner...