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  1. Turtle

    Scaling

    Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used in commerce to transport passengers or property if the motor vehicle— (1) Has a gross combination weight rating or gross combination weight of 11,794 kilograms or more (26,001...
  2. Turtle

    Scaling

    Depends on where you are when checked. It depends. If you are pulled over in Illinois, where you vehicle is registered, and you are exceeding the plated weight but not the GVWR, they'll nail you for exceeding the plated weight, and will do so for tax revenue purposes. If you are pulled over in...
  3. Turtle

    Parrot battery

    The one I ordered off eBay on Wednesday arrived in the mail in Saturday. Couple of minutes to swap it out, works like a charm. I probably should have put it on the charger first, but I Talked for a couple of hours on it before I even put it on the charger. No problems.
  4. Turtle

    is it a christmas tree or a holiday tree??

    If ya ask me, it's over-reported. Every friggin' year somebody has to point out that Christmas used to ba a pagan holiday. Sheesh. Enough already. We know it! It's almost as bad as every year there's a slew of yahoos who get bent out of shape with, "Put Christ back in Christmas!" because they...
  5. Turtle

    Scaling

    You people need to learn the difference between a "commercial vehicle" and a "commercial motor vehicle". There is a difference, and it's a big one. It's the difference between being regulated by the DOT, and not. Some also need to learn the difference between their GVWR and what it means, and...
  6. Turtle

    heater & ac blower not working

    I don't know. But I do know that the average MTBF on those blower motors is 100,000 to 150,000 miles according to the Chrysler parts guy when he looked it up in the parts database today after I asked him to. 68% fail under warranty.
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    heater & ac blower not working

    Sprinter blower motors usually fail around the 100,000 to 150,000 mile mark. If you are in that ballpark, there ya go. Simple replacement. Not cheap, but simple. (And before some goober says they got seventy bazillionty miles on their motor, yes, some motors last longer than the average, and...
  8. Turtle

    Nitrogen and high mileage driving

    The moisture issue is a minimal one for us, since moisture damage to tires takes several more years than we will use them. The primary benefits of nitrogen in tires is that it keeps the tires properly inflated, and a properly inflated tire will have reduced wear and increased fuel mileage. If...
  9. Turtle

    November Banter and Location

    2 videos? Crap, I only did the first one. OK, did the second one. I'm from the South and I still couldn't understand that dood. Sheesh.
  10. Turtle

    starting to drive for fleet owner with cargo vans!

    I drive a Sprinter. Used to drive a cargo van. I'm a fan of the van. I'm just not delusional about it or my place in the industry. There are reasons why a cargo van will get dispatched around to put van freight on a straight truck, and it ain't because the van can do it faster, or cheaper. Think...
  11. Turtle

    Fast and Furious Records Sealed....

    The part about the Obama administration sealing the court records. It's untrue and you believed it (still do, probably). Here's a short part of the story linked above from the Washington Times, or is that a blog too?? No, it's not a Blog. The fact that the Washington Times mentions the...
  12. Turtle

    Fast and Furious Records Sealed....

    When a judge seals a case, he must write a decision giving his reasons, and for each reason he must list the details of the case which prompted his decision in order to justify his reasons. If he didn't seal his decision, and therefore his reasons along with it, then sealing the case would...
  13. Turtle

    Fast and Furious Records Sealed....

    I'm correct regardless. In a perfect, Obamaless world, you likely wouldn't blindly believe the words of a Bloggin' moron. I'm just sayin'...
  14. Turtle

    Fast and Furious Records Sealed....

    Ah, OK. I thought you meant the order to seal the records (since that's what the thread is about :D ). The orders for Fast and Furious might have come from the top, but it might not have. I'm sure you are aware of a man named Allen Dulles who often created his own orders, and rarely obeyed the...
  15. Turtle

    Fast and Furious Records Sealed....

    Yes, thank you. I'm well aware of how grand juries work, and who is in charge of them, and that once a grand jury issue an indictment the indictment is returned to a judge. I'm also aware that no one other than a judge can order court records to be sealed. "The now-sealed federal grand jury...
  16. Turtle

    starting to drive for fleet owner with cargo vans!

    There are 168 hours in a week, and a team in a truck can drive 140 of them. I know of no solo driver in a van who can do that.
  17. Turtle

    Fast and Furious Records Sealed....

    Are you really and truly suggesting that the president, Holder, and the prosecuting attorney's in the criminal court case release to the public any and all information regarding the case, even before the investigation is complete and the case goes to trial? Really? While I wouldn't call Obama...
  18. Turtle

    November Banter and Location

    Most of the time the Safety Training is for everyone running under the authority. I took the test, had to use MSIE because whoever coded the HTML for the training modules at Infinit-I is a retard. Watch a video, answer 11 question.
  19. Turtle

    US must stop jailing minors for life, says Amnesty

    Dr Pepper, milk, and juice.... And I thought Swamp Water was weird.
  20. Turtle

    starting to drive for fleet owner with cargo vans!

    Most expedited trucks are teams, and team trucks don't have to stop after 11 hours, and can drive circles around a cargo van. You're not worth as much as you think. :D
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