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  1. chefdennis

    OH Crap!

    No damagge here, but i did find a small (dime size) hole from a blister in the gel-coat that has "popped"...have to make a call and see how to get that fixed...
  2. chefdennis

    It's About Time.....(Oil Prices)

    The way to control the speculators and traders is as easy as letting the oil companies increase their ability to drill and recover more oil...when the supply isn't in question and they can't run up the price on the world market based on fear of one group controlling produvtion, then you wouldn't...
  3. chefdennis

    OH Crap!

    Sorry to hear about the damage Joe...I haven't stopped to look and the windshield is ok...I was on I-40 in AR at the 214 mm when all h8ll broke loose...while the hail that fell for the next 7 mile wasn't as big as what you encountered, it was dime to quarter size...Ill be stopping for gas in a...
  4. chefdennis

    Nissan NV3500

    I delivered to the plant in Canton Ms yesterday where they are built...I was able to see them in several stages of prodution as well as finished..they are put together real good...alot of internal structural supports for the hightop....the console would be a deal breaker along with no long load...
  5. chefdennis

    May locations with banter

    mmmmm...meatloaf..:D...one of my fav's and I have to say mine is darn good, ain't it Xiggi ?!? Xiggi has had my meatloaf taters and gravy....:D...Think Ill put that on the menu the next time i am home and package it up for the truck frig...:D
  6. chefdennis

    Pre-newbie

    Blair has a BUNCH (not sure of the numbers, but i have heard they have more company units then O/O) of THEIR OWN Sprinters, as in Company owned trucks...I believe those thay driver them a straight $.30 a mile...and the company payes for everything....
  7. chefdennis

    Comng to YOUR Kids School Soon??

    Hey whats "good" for the "west coast" is good for the whole country...isn't that how the old saying goes??...Glad my kids are all out if grade school and the youngest only has 1 yr of high school (although she is only there 2 hrs a day, the rest of her classes are at the local university)...and...
  8. chefdennis

    Thanks A Team, sure hope you were right!

    I can say that when I get those small ST loads in my CargoMax that a sprinter can't take. I am gettin those kind of numbers without the expense or any of the "other" stuff of running a ST...and we get tolls paid on every load that requires them..thats not a big deal with Load 1 at all...
  9. chefdennis

    May locations with banter

    LOL...yes you did Scott...:D And speaking of the dispatch crew we have...I got into Olive Branch last night and there were 4 CV's, sprinters and cubes already there...I wnt to bed and woke up with 2 more CV's there...So i figure I'll be there a while....no big deal... 1330 dipatch calls...
  10. chefdennis

    May locations with banter

    Great rants Jenny, Mr. Snappy and Guido!! You are both right on!! While I live close enough to run home and don't spend much time in the lounge or yard, the fact is John went over the top to make sure he provided a great place for the complete staff of Load 1 to relax and that needs to be...
  11. chefdennis

    Do I Have An E150 Or An E250???

    I have no idea when ford changed it or even if they have, but they use to offer a gvw option on the e-150 that was listed as "under 8600 gvw"....thats all you got..there was no set gvwr until the unit was built and shipped, then the door stick told the story...that sounds what you have...
  12. chefdennis

    Synthetic oil/What is the correct weight oil to use?

    I used amsoil and the filter in my carco van...started using it at 80,000 and when I gave the key to the new driver it had 368.000 miles on it and the oil was changed at 15,000 mile intervals and the filter every 10,000 for the last 100,000 miles..they came out with a new fikter for gas motors...
  13. chefdennis

    May locations with banter

    Hmmmm...ok "Larry The Bat" are you just stopping into "grace" us with your "location" (which is always wellcome. especially when it is about a good place to eat) or more of a "new addition" to the Load 1 ranks!?!? :) I vaguely remember a rumor a few months back....;)
  14. chefdennis

    Pre-newbie

    in your situation, contact these guys: a. blair enterprises
  15. chefdennis

    May locations with banter

    Cleveland Ms to "The Yard"...:D opp....run cancelled...45 miles into the dh up there...dry run pay...soooo...i am heading to Olive Branch..
  16. chefdennis

    Synthetic oil/What is the correct weight oil to use?

    Use the same weight as the manufacturer sayes with dino oil...if it is 5-30 use it....
  17. chefdennis

    May locations with banter

    /dropped at the Nissan plant in Canton Miss where they build the new Nissan vans...see probably 5-600 of them...95% of them WHITE....and they have a window pass van in production also..I stopped and looked at both...not bad other then too short for us... Anyhow...at the "J" down in Jackson...
  18. chefdennis

    OTR Laptops?

    Toshiba Satellite here also, for just over 3.5 yrs...no problems at all...that being said, it sitson a logitech dual fan pad and they both are mounted on a adjustable "Ram Stand" that absorbs ALOTon motion and vibration...and I'd bet this thing has been powered up 90%0f the time the truck is...
  19. chefdennis

    May locations with banter

    Well got some sleep. Chrissey called, got a shorty late this evening for a 0100 pu here in McCalla goin to Canton MS...so, dinner is done, goin back to bed in a few to get a few more hours of sleep, then head to the pu and go straight through...Might head up to Olive Branch after the drop..got...
  20. chefdennis

    Jon Huntsman Jr

    I am sure this isn't the name Joe has in mind, but i heard John Boltons name the other day...seems like a long reach for him to go there after the way his UN confirmation went...but he is a "tell you to F--well stick where the sun don't shine" kind of guy...while that is appealing..well you...
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