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Well the Higbury Rd exit is open again so west bound has access to Highbury for the flying j. Wilton Grove is also reopened so accessing the business park south of the 401 is easier. Now the repaving on the 401 between Guelph and Milton is also almost finished (finally) so better traffic...

Look for oils having the spec listed for MB. Even Amsoil has one for the new Sprinter. Shop around for the oil. I just go by mileage for my changes. Oil weight (5w-40 or 5w-30) is not overly important as I've changed mine a couple of times and even tried 15w-40 dino oil. Found it thickened...

All diesel fuel in Ontario is ULSD. Even the regular stuff from Sunoco is as well the gold is their big additive type like shells ultra diesel. Some motors run better on gold and ultra. My old truck sounded better running gold but made no difference to mileage. Current truck it makes no...

Re CVOR the office for processing is in St Catherines and it usually takes a few weeks for them to put it thru and get it to you. So on line type in a search CVOR and then go to the mto web site thru links and download a cvor application and send it off. Since you're operating under your...

So we all reroute to the EXPRENSIVE TOLL ROAD otherwise known as the 407. Oh yeah we all need transpoders.... Oh well so much for that idea. Guess you go around the bottom and up the don valley parking lot. Rob

As they ramp up production you'll see a lot more in the cities. These are the newest ideas on saving fuel. Paccar is one of the first out the door with such an animal and is hopefully ideal for city p&d. have to wait and see the results of using them in the real world but since the technology...

Good points. Makes me sort of happier I'm canadian as we have the gov't coverage. It's not the best necessarily but cost is reasonable. This does not mean I don't need better coverage for my US trips so extra is purchased for those thru companies like Blue Cross etc. Up here and I'm sure...

Biggest problem in this industry is attitude. The driver (or potential) really has to have the right attitude. I've hired many a driver and only those with the right attitude lasted and did rather well. I used to work in the office for a company that hired brokers and occasionally when they...

The few days after the closing of the ramp Wilton Grve was also closed to thru traffic due to construction. So had to reroute to the next road down which comes out on Highbury not far down. Other wise exit at essex and go north on first road and back follow roads to highbury and go over...

Well definitely going for a snow tire this coming winter. The Michelin m/s or a/s are not that great without a load. One sprinter driver here swears by the toyo winters as he never got stuck but I'm trying to find Nokian Winters as they do work. Got the nokian WRs on the cars and they are the...

I use a fold up bed along the drivers side of the cargo wall. I have it so it raises up to the ceiling when needed (which a lot of lately) so had less head room on drivers side but high skids I slide right in front of the wheel wells. The bed folds as well so actually takes up less space than...

The last week I've noticed on almost all the highways that traffic in general has slowed down a bit. It is now possible to pass someone while only doing the speed limit (62mph) rather than the usual 110kph (close to 70mph). Except for the 427 on the west side of Toronto all the other major...

One of our larger customers made a deal with a larger expedite outfit to do some of their route deliveries. One driver from there used his GPS to route the stops of the route and followed it. I asked what was taking so long and he complained about the miles he was doing. I couldn't figure out...

In answer to the original question... it is hard to make decent money in a van. in my case I'm doing over 2000/month clear after truck costs but the business is slow. Fortunately I'm with a smaller company which for me has worked out better than the larger ones. Less competition, more...

Common problem with causing cupping was of course shocks being shot. They then allowed the tire to bounce more causing cupping. But check all the aforementioned ideas as alignment, tire pressure, out of round (a definite possible) and such as well as weakened suspension. Unusual wear of any...

Well ovm that's why I got speed control. set it and just cruise along. Yeah new 07 and newer get about 10-15% lower fuel economy (using figures from a couple of guys with them) than the older ones. Keeping the speed down and the rpm in the hp range is important on them. Since mine revs so...

NOw fyi Quebec is also on the speed limiter thing for the same speed of 105km/h or 65mph. In fact Quebec actually proposed this before Ontario did but seem to be behind in making it legislation. So they won't be far behind and then of course we'll see who else does this. Some states are also...

Now for those of you wondering how the dot will know if your compliant the ministry or transport has already ordered (probably received) plugin units to download info from your onboard computer which will show limited speed and other such goodies. Although some dot officers had these readers...

Thought I'd put this here for more to catch. Canada Day is July 1 but since that is a tuesday next week us expeditors will have a small prob delivering. Some companies are closed on the actual day (tues), some are closed on the monday and others are taking both days. My outfit has customers...

Look around most of the larger cities or those with large industrial areas nearby. There should be a few companies that do rush or expedited deliveries with vans and straights (even tt) that do not require a sleeper as the loads don't go too far and there are usually several a day. I know a...