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You might not see a van that heavy. By the time the payload reaches 3,000 lbs, the shippers/dispatchers start getting away from the vans and looking towards straight rigs. The weight/volume tends to exclude vans past about 3500 lbs or so.

I note in the article you've linked to that some brain-donor had the idea of tearing down the bridge, which might require CSX to install a grade crossing instead. That's even worse. Sooner or later a train will hit a vehicle at a grade crossing. It happens all the time. Does anybody really think...

So many of these guys approached the bridge at speed, never even thought to slow down as they approached a bridge that had to look "close". I will grant that the ones driving rental trucks and the ones pulling a camper trailer might not have realized just how close. But many of the others are--...

Way back in '87 I learned how to drive a rig. One thing I learned is never go under a bridge that has a close clearance at highway speed. You slow to a crawl and "walk" the trailer under the bridge. If it touches, you know it before you destroy the trailer. Any tall truck-- and some rental...

There's a raccoon in the "Over the hedge" cartoon that is going to be in big trouble. He's addicted to Hostess treats, even sold his soul for a warehouse full of them (which he's eaten since). So, hearing they may go out of business entirely-- at last report talks with the union have stalled yet...

You're right, it doesn't make sense. Once upon a time, we the people had rights, if you can imagine that. Over a period of time we gave up those rights for imagined security. Today, you can't get on a plane without being subject to search techniques that would have touched off a riot just a...

Set the wayback machine, Sherman. Just before the fall of communism in the USSR. Gorbachev has the reins of government firmly in hand. Soviet power is held in check, or so it seems, only by their own relative poverty and the combined strength of NATO, most of which is in the form of US military...

During the days when I had the Sprinter, Power Service was the stuff I used in the winter. Had to, you can't always be sure the fuel you're buying around here is winter-grade fuel and I've been caught a couple of times, so-- Power Service was the stuff for anti-gelling purpose. I understand the...

I'm surprised Amonger hasn't shown up yet. He's usually on this subject like white on rice.

Somebody dug up a 3.5 year old thread. Anybody got an oak stake?

About the 5-hour energy drinks--- Forget about it. It may give you a boost, but it's fake. If you're tired, pull over and nap for a bit. All the 5-hour energy drink will do is make a wide-awake tired person think he can do something he can't do.

When it gets to the point that Tinkerbelle is riding shotgun and giving directions to the next turn, it's way past time to stop and I don't care what you're driving. No load is going to do anybody any good if you're upside down and in flames in a ditch. When I get tired, I stop. Period...

I tried one of those energy drinks a few years back. It tasted awful and to be quite honest I don't think it did much. Nasty tasting stuff, can't imagine wanting another one.

"Asphyxiation" is a tip-off. If he had died of carbon monoxide poisoning, they would have said that instead. Either way, the prevention is to have ventilation. A propane heater like the Buddy uses quite a bit of oxygen, and while most modern heaters have safeties that shut them off when the...

I can't understand how anybody could look at the tonka* trucks in the OP photo and not know that they're over 10K. They have to be. You have that big box sitting on that long wheelbase, and--- in order to carry any freight at all, it's over 10K. *At the courier service I used to drive for, we...

Many of us are already on the thin edge as it is, this would suffice to put a number of businesses-- not just expediting-- under. You could not jack prices up fast enough to save the businesses without crashing the economy. Just in trucking alone, the rates we charge would have to skyrocket, and...

I'm trying to imagine an expediter hauling that kind of weight. Outside of the steel industry or mining-- hard to imagine. In my mind, I've already ruled out straight rig, so that leaves a Michigan Train or something very similar.

Never claim conspiracy when incompetence will serve. Rough paraphrase on something Napoleon is supposed to have said.

I wonder, now, if the "E" spaces just might be for expediters. After the last session here where the CEO was asking why we don't use them more, they may have gotten the idea that giving us dedicated space to park is the way to go. A little clarification on this would go a long way.