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Da Plane Not-Plane! Da Plane Not-Plane! The Bell 430 Helicopter Fuel Capacity - 188 US Gallons Range - 372 Miles Top Speed - 140 knots (161 mph, 260 km/h) Cost Per Hour - $900.00 (incl. fuel and Maintenance) I've taken freight off a lot of aircraft, but this is the first helicopter. It...

Iowa to Elk Grove Village for Friday delivery, so it looks like I'll spend Thanksgiving here at either the TA or the Pilot/Road Ranger in lovely Hampshire, IL. On the way over here this afternoon, I drove through Waterloo on US 20 and a few miles east of there I pulled off at the Jesup exit to...

Yup. If your EGR or MAF is bad, you'll know it without an engine light. Some of the symptoms can mimic a bad fuel pump or a fe other things, but you'll get a light and a code for those. FlyingVan probably knows more details about all this. He's the one who clued me in.

If you take your Sprinter into a dealer to have the reprogramming done, make sure you have enough to pay for a new MAF, because the instant the ECU gets reprogrammed the engine light will illuminate and a MAF failure code will be there. The most common symptoms of a faulty Mass Airflow Sensor...

The palm trees look a little out of place for Detroit. Especially since that's a picture of Riverside, California.

Locomotive Drag Racing

Yeah, Yard Dog, that's the term I couldn't remember. Thanks. I've delivered up to the Ottawa plant a couple of times. Pretty neat.

Yup. I think electric vehicles are going to be über popular. <giggle> Things are coming full circle. In the early days of the horseless carriage electric power waa by far the most popular. But battery technology just wasn't there, and couldn't match up with gasoline powered internal combustion...

You know how when you deliver to a place where you know you won't get loaded out of, so you deadhead to a place where you are likely to get loaded, only to get there and immediately get a load right back to near where you just delivered? I luv it when that happens. :turtle:

Headed up to the Iron Range. Should be fun. Single digits and screaming winds. That's fun, right?

Meijer has put in reservations for 4 of them so far. I can see Meijer, Walmart, Target, etc., having charging stations at the distribution centers and the stores. Charging stations at LTL terminals. The crossdock warehouses for assembly plants would make great use of electric trucks.

Newsweek offers up scientific proof that Trump has tiny hands. This is even better than CNN's investigative reporting on Russian dressing.

I think it's the beez kneez. Git R Dun. I think electric is a great fit for most of trucking, other than long haul.

I did another one over night. Plus 5 hours earlier I ran down to Keokuk and brought a load back. Currently in Burlington, IA, Case New Holland wiring harnesses are like World Series T-shirts of wiring harnesses - can't get enough of them fast enough. They had a big recall because they were...

A beautiful Iowa morning.... Da plane! Da plane! Da plane up close!

There are two ways to impeach a president and remove him from office. Only one of them has ever worked. First way is to let evidence from investigations build a bipartisan and public consensus for impeachment. That’s how Nixon was pushed out of office in 1974. If he had not resigned, he would...

That ability is coming sooner than you might think. And it's awesome.

Liberals trust the government.

True, but I don't think it's half of them. But even if it was that many, it's hard to lie your way around the gun registration database.

This is really something more for the Classifieds. People looking for driving jobs look there. Here, not so much.