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  1. ftp000

    A little help from the experts please

    I'm trying to sell my Sprinter, I won't hit the details as I know I'm already dangerously close to soliciting on this thread and I don't want to do that. I just need to know if you know of some other places to advertise a specialty van like this, and (if you've seen my add 06 w/sleeper) what I...
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    Good Auto Auction?

    Anybody know of a good auto auction in or around North or South Carolina? Preferably one that allows the general public to buy and sells repo's and the like. I need to make the money I'm getting from totaling my Ram go a long way and all the auctions I'm finding are loaded with cars brought by...
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    How far up 75 could one get tonight ?

    Remember when I said I was gonna get back on the horse and ride? I shoulda grabbed a snowmobile. I accepted a load without checking the weather, going from N. Charleston to Saginaw, I'm pretty sure its gonna be late. I'm only going as far as I feel safe going, anybody know where the line might...
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    So I nearly killed us

    Last Thurs here in Myrtle Beach, we decided we needed a few days off and came home, we went to the bank and planned to pick up my Mother in-law and head to Sam's Club, When leaving the bank I needed to turn left onto bus 17, I had to cross 2 lanes to a middle area then go left. To our left about...
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    I'm no mechanic

    My 06 sprinter has been acting like the EGR valve either needs cleaned or replaced, its coughing black smoke when accelerating (sometimes, mostly after idling) and at times putting itself in protect mode until I stop and turn it off and back on. So I decided, after reading on the interwebs how...
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    St Paul MN truck stops

    I was talking to a driver recently about favorite truck stops, this driver said there was a really good one in the St Paul, Minni area. Well I've forgotten the name and other particulars of this place and since it was a passing conversation with somebody I don't know, there's no way to contact...
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    Just got our first load of 2011

    picks up tomorrow heading down to Laredo, anybody know if the vans are stacking up down there? Nice to start off with an 1100 miler but I really need to get one more run on this weeks pay, gotta cover 2 weeks of settlements.
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    Broke down in St. Marys, PA.

    Our alternator died while we were sitting at a shipper waiting to be loaded, that's the first load we've ever had to pull off of, not a good feeling. This is the second alternator in a month, that's what I get for buying an alternator at Auto Zone., yet the one going on today is also from the...
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    Riverdale Ill

    Making a delivery mon morning to CSX there in a Sprinter, since this is a railroad outside of Chicago I have some concerns with where to park,we want to get there Sunday night so we won't have to fight any traffic on Mon morning, there's no Walmart. Anybody been to Riverdale? Got any idea's?
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    How are teams dividing the hours?

    We've been out of the expediting business for a few years, the the last 2 years the we did do expediting was in a Sprinter. When we first started we were in a straight truck and we ussually would go 6/4 splits, as in I drive 6 she drives 6 then I drive 4..... But after a DOT HOS change we were...
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    Conway SC. Expeditor?

    a few months ago my father inlaw met a driver who claimed to drive for a small expeditor company out of Conway SC. I've searched but can find no info on this alleged company. Does anybody have any info about this company?
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    Is this normal?

    I've been an owner/operater (sprinter) with Nations for almost 3 years, back is March I hired somebody to run my sprinter and took some time off the road. Last week , due to my financial needs, I let Nations know that I was going to go back into my van. The compliance guy there told me that...
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    07 Sprinter floor

    I just got a nice new 2007 Sprinter, it already has a factory installed load rail system and some pretty solid hard floors, my question is, are those floors gonna hold up with skids slidding in and out? or should I still do the old ply wood deal? What are others with 07's doing?
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    Sample driver contracts

    We are about to become a 2 van operation and will be hiring a driver. Would anybody care to share a sample drivers contract? pm it or email it or post a link.
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    Just to vent a little

    I am kind of a hobby writter, this little piece I wrote recently after a couple of especially agravating days on the road. Maybe somebody will get a chuckle from it, I'm sure most of you have felt this way. As a professional driver I have noticed that some people are complete and total idiots...
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    need a PM from a Nations Express driver

    I need a question answered by a nations express driver. pm or email me [email protected]
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    Sleeper seatbelt

    OK, call me a whimp but the one thing I really miss, since moving to a Sprinter from the Century class straight truck, is the security of that net style 3 way belt thingy they had on the bed. The Sprinter has a smaller version of the sleeper installed by midway, but no belt on the bed of any...
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    The Blackberry

    I don't know how many of you have tried them out, but these Blackberry's are an awsome tool for this business. I've saved enough money in fuel,just by using the addictive little crackberry to check prices,to justify the price. Plus I can keep up wit EO, sports scores, e-mails, do my banking, and...
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    idle stick?

    In several past posts I've read concerning idling sprinters people said they got an "idle stick" at the J rather than pay for the high idle upgrade. What is this idle stick really? no one at the 2 J's I've checked has any clue so I'm guessing its a product meant to do something else but being...
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    Idle question on new Sprinter

    I'm waiting impatiently for my spanking new Sprinter to return to the dealer from midway with the sleeper installed. I've been wrestleing with whether or not I am going to have the dealer slap the high idle feature on or not. The dealer (who stands to profit from me having it done) says that the...
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