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  1. OntarioVanMan

    American Built....

    Isn't it wierd I heard on TV Fox from Darrel Waltrip that TOYOTA is the ONLY American built car in the Daytona 500 to-day. The Ford Fusion is built in Mexico and the Dodge Challenger and GM Pontiac are both built in Canada.
  2. OntarioVanMan

    Bad start for Toyota

    Jayman...you said BUY American??? Isn't it wierd I heard on TV Fox from Darrel Waltrip that TOYOTA is the ONLY American built car (Camry) built in Georgtown KY by more then 7,000 Americans) in the Daytona 500 to-day. The Ford Fusion is built in Mexico and the Dodge Challenger and GM Pontiac...
  3. OntarioVanMan

    Expediting is a Business

    quoting Terry If we can each agree that expediting as an Owner/Operator is a business, then why can't we each agree that success in this business is best reached by being adequately capitalized. That is having sufficient reserve funds to pay all operating expenses to accomplish the work for...
  4. OntarioVanMan

    slow

    Slow???? 10 trips in 8 days! and we just got a room here in Terra Haute and they called with an offer! Turned it down. from Ill. to Ct. and into Canada and out again maybe 100 DH if that....grossed about 3800 so far. In a Sprinter.
  5. OntarioVanMan

    WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID :

    Things that make you think a little: There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq . When some claim that President Bush...
  6. OntarioVanMan

    2006 SPRINTER

    I went beyond 90,000 with mine BUT I wouldn't recommend it! It could've been a BIG mistake on my part! On fuel filters at $60-70 a pop I did mine @ 25,000= Clean as a whistle. Then again at 40,000 mile and again you could eat off it. The manual says 20,000. So where's reality check in? The...
  7. OntarioVanMan

    2006 SPRINTER

    I have a 2005 sprinter. Do BOTH tranny and rear end service at about 80,000. Tranny service is around $300 and rear end is about $75 bucks. DO NOT skip the service on these vans. it WILL cost you dearly. I've heard $5,000 to replace rear end alone!!!! I've also had to front wheel bearing...
  8. OntarioVanMan

    Ford Transit

    There is word now 2008 it will debut here in the U.S. http://www.newfordtransit.com/
  9. OntarioVanMan

    Canada Recommendation for a new company

    As much as I promote Dynamex, they have went and put on about 20 new vans in the last 2 months. Not good for the existing drivers.I have yet to see any NEW customers to justify this increase. DX does not do alot of automotive maybe 15%. More aerospace... Maybe try to get a greencard and work...
  10. OntarioVanMan

    Ticket for in cab control

    I believe I heard Arkansa mentioned awhile back as well.
  11. OntarioVanMan

    401 crash

    >I drive the 401 nightly from London to Toronto. The >Woodstock to Kitchener stretch is the worst, since it is >still 2 lanes each way with just a narrow ditch median. They >are working on widening to 3 lanes each side with a wall in >between, and this should be done late 2008, so the...
  12. OntarioVanMan

    dynamax

    E-mail? I can't tell you much more but ask away here at [email protected]
  13. OntarioVanMan

    WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON SKID SIZE?

    In response to Terrys post we have the 158" hightop Sprinter with 2 people and all our gear we weigh out between 6000-6200 empty with a gvrw of 8550= 2300-2500lbs payload safely. My wife also packs like a rock star...i figure an extra 200 lbs just for her gear!!!!! I'll let you know when I fly...
  14. OntarioVanMan

    dynamax

    >Well nitecreacher that would be good if there was some to >choose from but I'm trying to put a cargo van on and not >many are doing that right now. But as you like to say the >bottom line is what counts and OVM is working for them and >doing okay, just would like to know how. Thanks for...
  15. OntarioVanMan

    Canada Whats on your computer?

    redytrk...feeling like a crimnal? how does that work? North Portal Sask/North Dakota I am a Canadian and Canada Customs asked me to fire up my laptop and asked to see my pics of grandchildren. I did not feel criminal at all but on my way back into the U.S. they confiscated two sticks of beef...
  16. OntarioVanMan

    Cash Stops the World

    >Good thing OVM wants to get his green card. He can then pay >taxes. :o Jan 29th bud...I'll be aa taxpayer....
  17. OntarioVanMan

    Cash Stops the World

    While watching a TV the other night, this writer was shocked to see a Visa commercial that shows how paying in cash disrupts the flow of life. Though the commercial was fun and humorous to watch, the deeper implications of it are no laughing matter! Americans are becoming more and more in...
  18. OntarioVanMan

    US State Department Succumbs to Homosexual Pressur

    RE: US State Department Succumbs toI Homosexual P >Gay is legal in Canada, Oh I see it is a crime now here in >the US? :+ greg...your kidding???? Did I mis-spoke? Actually gay/lesbian doesn't bother me at all. I've met some very nice gays/les in my lifetime. They don't bother me, I don't...
  19. OntarioVanMan

    US State Department Succumbs to Homosexual Pressur

    RE: US State Department Succumbs toI Homosexual P >Ontariovanman, > >Does this mean you will be moving back to Canada? LOL Just >kidding. :+ Jayman: Gay is legal in Canada! So I'll not be moving back...(not the only reason)
  20. OntarioVanMan

    New Ohio Ban on Smoking

    Terry...got it.:)
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