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Well I pay less than 2000 for vans, do all my own maintenance (trans went, switched out my spare in the driveway in t dark) and 500 miles costs me 35-45 in fuel...maintenance runs me another 1 or 2 thousand, then I scrap van after 2 years...don't get me wrong I do admire you guys sipping coffee...

How about anyone with a 5.4 ford in the standard cargo? I was on the Ford trucks website and found a lot of reports of 13 mpg hwy ouch!

Good advice, now that you mention it, in the last few years I've seen a lot of pulled over cubes, and pickup/trailers...felt immune to it in the normal cargo van

Good point. Just want something big enough I don't have to turn down a load after driving hours to pick it up...more worried about expenses, I know nothing about the single rear wheel cubes...anything over 2500 seems to go to the straights at my carrier...

BTW thanks for responses, I had a regular run for 9 years and I'm totally out of the loop for expediting...trying to build out a cheaper Sprinter size to match carriers requirements...

:) For why? The whole attraction of under 10000 is thumbing my nose at the scales on the way by...think DOT would assume it looks like a box van and I need to scale? Even if a gas van came to 6000 lbs it would leave me plenty to play with at the 9600 gvw...

Same as e350, but brochure states up to 700 lb lighter with fibreglass box...it's on standard 138" wheelbase

2010 E350 single rear wheel...vin translates to 5.4 gas, 4 speed auto with 4.59 gears...anyone know highway MPG?

Wait, you don't mean the Transit based, do you? I have no idea how you guys with big payments do it, tried that 10 years ago, drove a million miles on that van to make it worth it...

17 would be nice! Thanks, this is exactly what I need to know. Right now I'm practicing my restraint, i'm stuck in a natural gas van with very few options to refuel...

I know I'm the only weirdo. Cleaned up, I'm asking what the best type of gas large single rear wheel van is and what I can expect while deadheading for mpg...looking at a 2010 Ford Aerocell but 4.59 gear ratio scares me...

Ok no responses, so while searching I found the "sprinter wannabe" thread with some good info...I'm the type to fix stuff at the side of the road rather than wait for a tow or mechanic to have time for me, so "sprinter wannabe" is what I'll be. What I need to know: Ford or Chevy bubble van, and...

Ready to replace my 2003 Dodge Ram Van 3500 :) I've been spoiled paying 0.94 cents a gallon for CNG, but without going thru Buffalo every day I'm not saving anything at prices between 1.50 and 3.20 for natural gas. Carrier has no year rules on vans so I've been picking up CNG vans with less...

Second the fantastic fan and side window install. If it rains I reverse the flow (windows have rain guards) and a second portable fantastic fan for spot cooling...two 12v walmart hybrid deep cycles power both about 18 hours and charge off my starting battery. Good for 95+ degrees and humid

After a particularly drunken after work party I was apparently seen with a lady that was not my girlfriend...can't confirm this as I blacked out, sought to deliver my "package" as far out of harms way as possible, so I quit an hour into my next shift and signed the dotted line on an Alumi-Bunk...

So I get the feeling the answer to my original post would mostly be the lack of filling stations - that's fair, but personally I got so angry at the games at the pumps I swore I'd outsmart them or park it and sling fries at mcdonalds

It is nice, as far as the cng system goes I've put about 250,000 miles on with zero maintenance or problems

There's a station whether you cross at Buffalo or Lewiston, one in Westfield, one in Cleveland, and one in St Catharines but 0.75 a litre is too rich for my blood

Canada. No, and i can't even use carpool lane, its for electrics, US?? Anyone know?

That's why I run natural gas and not propane, I paid 1.01 a gallon all last year and it spiked up to 1.34 this year...tax in Rising_cow it came with wire wound fibreglas tanks, the large add on tank was steel out of a ford, and as for the switch, the only switch is off when you run out of...