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Yeah, that's my understanding, too, that if you get into trouble down there, real or fabricated, your only option is to contact the American Embassy down there. Assuming, of course, they let you make the phone call in the first place.

Which president was it, again, that signed NAFTA into law? I forget. Anyways, as for an army to turn back an invasion, I'm right there with ya on that one. I honestly don't have anything at all against Mexicans, legal or otherwise, who live here. I like it here, too. I can certainly understand...

arkjarhead - yeah, that's how I took it. :) I thought it was funny, too. I can type, barely, I can't spell, mostly, and I refuse to proofread, like, totally.

Yeah, it can. Although you'd have to define what you mean by "convert". The exhaust hose must be vented to the outside through a 5.1" hole in the wall of the van. The exhaust hose puts out way more hot air than unit puts out in cold air. Way more. The internal water reservoir holds about 2...

Sure they are. They are trying to preserve what little they can. If they rejected this, it would be just a matter of time before every Daimler-related plant in the country closed up shop and moved to Mexico. The UAW no longer has the juice to threaten much of anything, really. A strike would...

First of all, arkjarhead, thanks very much for that information about Yellow. I have asked three different Yellow drivers why a company named Yellow has orange trucks, instead of yellow. I got, essentially, the same answer from all three, which was... Before they were a trucking company they...

Yeah, changing the name to jpg fixes it. Turns out, the ones she sends that magically get changed to the .bin file extension have EXIF data included in the file, and the ones that get sent as .jpg files don't. Weird.

FedEx is a case in particular where the background color is part of the logo and signature (UPS is another). When they first started out they chose specifically orange and purple on a white background. Orange and purple are a clashing combination and in rather unpleasing to the eye, especially...

Other than white being a cooler color insofar as keeping the interior of the vehicle cool versus a dark color, mainly it has to do with the lettering color schemes of the businesses that put their logos on the side of the vehicles. White is very neutral and is more easily adapted to the wide...

Whew. Don't get me started on a national language. I know that if I moved to France, they're not gonna give me a driver's license unless I can fluently speak and write French. Here, you can take your driver's license test in Chinese, for cryin' out lout. When you move to another country, and if...

It may be reality, or TV and movie induced paranoia, but if the Mexican authorities as so corrupt that they can rob you and throw you in jail at any time for no reason, and there's not a thing you can do about it, then there's zero chance that me or my truck will be going into Mexico.

I can tell you flat out that you will not make $1000 net per week in a van. You might some weeks, but as an average, it'll be more like $600 a week, $700 maybe. It depends on your costs, and how well you control your expenses. Expenses are more than 50%. Honestly, when you figure in insurance...

Expediting is very similar to OTR trucking, in that you will spend a lot of time away from home and in your truck. So make sure you outfit the front of your van for living in comfort. :) Read this thread: http://www.expeditersonline.com/dcforum/DCForumID1/5248.html

Not quite sure how I'm living proof that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. If yer gonna level a charge like that, the least you could do is back it up with specifics, particularly specifics that I've stated inaccurately. When someone falls into the category of a little knowledge being a...

I do think it will be interesting to see what happens with the difference in the controls and regulations. To see, for example, if countless Mexican trucks will be pot OOS at scales for log and HoS violations. And how they're gonna deal with things like fuel taxes. I do think that the same...

Oh, the pain, the paaaiiinnn. The pain of change. Too funny. The more things change, the more they stay the same. If you go back in history to the beginning of organized civilization you will find then, as now, the privileged few, and the masses. You had lands with kings and nobles, and then...

Not sure what brand they will be. I just ordered my first case the other day. I've talked with 2 people who have ordered from this lady off eBay, each have ordered two cases. One of them, the first case they got was Fram, I think, and the other three cases they got were the Mann Mopar filters...

I dunno. I have an idea. Send me a bin, and send me a jpg. Lemme see.

Well, if you listen to Chicken Little Radio or do most of your reading at www.theskyisfalling.net, you're gonna be upset over the SPP. But the fact is, no agreement was ever signed by anyone regarding the SPP. Not by Bush, not by Fox, and not by Martin. The only "agreement" that was made was...

Funny, tho :D