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At least, in these older Chevies, you can get parts and if it has to go to a mechanic you just have to find an honest one. Most any mechanic will work on Chevies and Fords.

No more Sprinters. Ever. Everything on these machines costs three times more than it should, parts can be remarkably harder to get, and if you have to have it repaired instead of doing it yourself (some jobs really can't be done DIY) you quickly find there's few mechanics who will touch a Sprinter.

I have a feeling that most of the vans of this size are going to have fuel economy in about this range. My 3/4 ton Chevy, running the 5.8 engine, is getting anywhere between 13.5 and 15.8 depending on how I drive it and which way the wind is blowing.

I've used one of those self-repair kits. It worked well enough, just follow the instructions.

I've never known any other way, really, than having one good eye. My right eye is good, my left eye-- creates more problems than it solves. So, the depth perception problems are something I've always compensated for naturally. Mirrors come on all vehicles these days, some are reasonably good...

Sprinters do get good fuel mileage and the ride is nice. The newer ones are quiet, too-- none of that diesel "death rattle" idle noise. The problem could be when it breaks and you need to get it fixed. It's a Mercedes, and Mercedes seems to have a terrible problem with repair and service...

I have a question. How, exactly, is being one-eyed supposed to handicap you more in a cargo van than two eyes? How is driving a cargo significantly different than driving a car? I've driven both cars and vans, never noticed that my bad left eye made that big a difference. Again, unless your name...

I drive a standard Chevy cargo van. No windows at all back of the front doors. Before this one, I had a Sprinter, same thing-- no windows back of the front doors. The only tip I can offer is the same one I would offer to anyone driving a cargo van: Learn to love your outside mirrors, they're...

I haven't said much, but I've been one-eyed since shortly after birth. An operation nicked the optic nerve to the left eye, so I have no useful vision in that eye. Restrictions: The state makes me have left and right outside mirrors. Just about every vehicle now on the road comes with left and...

Of course, you know somebody was going to look this one up. I really hate getting stuff shoved into my email, and one lady I know has the chain-letter disease really bad. Every bit of flotsam gets sent along without checking. This one turns out to be true, according to Snopes, and it's based on...

I got delayed by it for a bit, fortunately I was empty and headed home at the time. Backups all the way down to Sibley when I got there, I got off at 127th Street. Southbound was backed up all the way to Interstate 55, they were forced off at 95th Street.

I don't even want to think about it. Blacked-out brake lights, probably a tinted cover over the license plate, white lights visible to the rear--- all violations. But it looks cool. OK, save it for the beach when you're girl chasing. Professionally, better stick with DOT regs. Why give them...

I've been having to learn to hold it down. I had a tendency to be a leadfoot, but it doesn't take long to figure that's expensive. Especially when I come on here and find guys who are driving vans similar to mine getting five miles more per gallon than I was getting. So, I'm holding it to 60...

It won't hit $7.00. The reason is that by the time it did that, it would crash the world economy-- not just us. Not even the Chinese economy could withstand such a price rise. People who don't have jobs don't drive as much and they don't burn much fuel. Companies that have had to close don't...

The plain white (or dark grey, in my case) Ford or Chevy van may have a distinct advantage. No markings to make it stand out, it can disappear in plain sight. So, it's harder for terrorists or common burglars to home in on it for sensitive cargo. The only problem now is training the driver to...

This makes the old-style sealed beams seem not too bad. They're large and that makes it hard to store spares, but on the flip side it seems glass lenses don't get the crazing that plastic lenses do, and it's not nearly as expensive when you have to replace one.

I found that settling down to 60 or below works well. I've had a tendency to be a leadfoot, and the gas-mileage numbers haven't been good ones. Now that I'm trying to hold it down, the mileage has come up noticeably. I'm getting 14.5 to 15.5 now on my Chevy, at high speeds (in excess of 70 mph)...

A few years back I made decent money as a courier. We had CDW, Staples, Quill and a couple of other customers, and I could expect a $2000 or better paycheck in my standard Ford van. Then we lost CDW to another outfit and my pay dropped precipitously. I was doing good to get 1200 on a good week...

I did local here in Chicago. Staples: Heavy work, low pay. In the hospitals, it's desk-top drop, which means you can spend an hour in the hospital. The routes I ran were geographic nightmares and desk-top drop didn't make it better.

Almost blind post: It depends. If the difference between the paid miles and the quick miles isn't unreasonable, I'll probably take the quick miles. Trying to recall-- I think in the example given in the OP it's a forty-mile difference. OK, how many miles overall? 500 miles? I'll take the quick...