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The Sprinter rear door lock is on the right hand side door, so I can unlock the door and then pull the handle to open it in one motion. :)

Don't make a post espousing your own intelligence on the heels of a post where you mucked it up with idiot grammar. I'm just sayin.' If I do, would you be able to come up with a better, perhaps more witty insult? In any case, I'm genuinely interested in improving myself, and you see me as...

The remote locks won't work if there is a key in the ignition. And if the key is in the ignition and you open and door, then lock it, it'll unlock as soon as you close the door. However, on the rear door, if you open that door, lock it, and close it, you're locked out just like that. If you do...

The Transits definitely engage the rear brakes before the front. The upside to that is, the front of the van will rarely dip on you when applying the brakes. The OEM pads are also very soft. Aftermarket pads are much harder and will last longer. At least the rotors are thick enough to last...

I keep my third spare on a hook in the kitchen at the house. I keep a key in the ignition whenever I'm in the van, and I take it with me when I leave the van to go into a store or something. I also have, always, a key in my right pocket, for no other reason than to be able to quickly unlock the...

Organised gangs fuel dramatic rise in transit van thefts in Leeds And from a year ago... Car-hackers driving off with top motors They now have little flash drives that plug into the DRB-III connector and will flash the vehicle's on-board computer to turn off the security features.

Horse hockey. Sarcasm is a form of wit. If you lack wit, it is virtually impossible to even engage in sarcasm, because without wit you cannot recognize irony, which is the basis for most sarcasm. I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. You can't be an idiot and get the irony in that sarcastic...

Or not. ".59 per mile or less" meaning... A Ballpark Figure, In the Neighborhood Of, In the Vicinity Of, Almost Generally, Roughly, Relatively, Olé! 96 DH + 294 Loaded Miles = 390 "all miles" Total revenue to the truck: $226.00 $226 / 390 miles = 57.95 cents per mile all miles. Got a...

You probably have heard it, but it's not pronounced like it's spelled. Hyperbole looks like it's pronounced as hyper-bowl. But it's high-perbolee

Different headline. But no, I'm not. Those pictures don't in and of themselves evoke guilt, anyway. Yes, what the Europeans and later Americans did to the American Indians is bad, and shameful, and despicable. But while I currently, as do most other Americans, and the country at large, benefit...

I love headlines like that. They're telling me that if I click the bait, that what I see, I will not even believe. I have my doubts that I won't actually believe it. It's like the headlines that tell me that my mind will be blown if I would just click the bait. I'm betting my mind won't be...

Of course not really. It's hyperbole, using the same exact phrasing in the post to which I was responding, that being the reference to what brokers and carriers think most of us are. Can you not recognize hyperbole when you see or hear it? It's the same non-harsh, exaggerated hyperbolic speech...

For every expediter who will not move below a certain rate, there are a dozen high functioning retards who will.

Up to date? Not a chance. The Space Shuttle looks at the Sprinter and goes, "Whew! I'm glad I'm not that complicated."

That's like a 4 hour drive.

That temperature control dial is the bane (plight, pest, nuisance) of many Sprinter owners. It's not so bad in the summer and winter, because you're most likely to just leave it set for coldest or hottest all the time. But in the fall and spring, it can be a real PITA. You start off during the...

You'll probably want the blower motor working in any case but I'd sure want to know why a nonfunctional blower motor is a Safety item. It may very well be in Canada, but it's not anywhere in the FMCSA regulations as a safety related function. The blower motor can fail for several reasons. The...

That's the right answer. Drivers leased to a single carrier are, generally speaking, getting better rates than are those who obtain their loads from brokers or the multi-carrier model, because of supply and demand. When contracted to a single carrier, the carrier has a moral, ethical and legal...

A few weeks before the event I'll be scoping out weather forecasts for where I might be (or will want to be). The Eclipse People will be all over the weather predictions, so it won't be hard to find out what's what and where.

That could be the carrier doesn't a competing carrier's lettering delivering their freight. If the customer expects, say, a Panther truck, and an XPO truck shows up, that could be bad. But if one with no lettering shows up, not a big deal.