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My Question!!! I have a 14ft box truck that is 41” from ground to box floor. I do have a 1600lb lift gate on the truck that will raise 15”above the floor of the truck calling the gate “powers beyond”, which is a big help. I carry a set of ramps that I made so when I need to be dock high I set...

OK!!! Here is what happened. The week we had the big snow, I was sinning the wheels 2 or 3 times because of poor traction. One of those times I spun the wheels I had a 1600lb load on but did come out of it. Since this I put another 3000 miles on the van. It is a Chevy 3500 Ext. cargo van with a...

This is your basic photo contest, "suggested by Weave". We are posting a picture of this junk heap located somewhere along one of our highways and byways in the good old US of A. and you have to guess where it rests. Sounds easy enough, eh? Here is truck #1: I am a White Freightliner cabover...

Attention!!! Attention!!! Attention!!! How many of you are sick of those pretty truck contests full of Peterbilt 359's that you or I can't afford and can't understand why anyone would want to make a truck look so nice and drive it down a salt covered highway...

I was and have been planning to build a new van. I want to design it so a driver or team can stay out for a longer period of time in a van. What I had in mind was to buy a cut a way van with an extended wheelbase or maybe even stretch it to accommodate the length needed. Be it a single or dully...

I was just introduced to a new (to me) way of having my tires balanced. It is called a static balance. MAGNUM Tire Balancing Compound. MAGNUM is a technologically advanced dry free-flowing compound designed principally for balancing medium truck tires, light truck and off-road tires, and...

One of the guys that works with me, drivers a van. It will down shift to third but will not up shift back to fourth. He has to pull off the road, and restart the van for it to go back into fourth. Tranny shop told him he needs to have tranny rebuilt. $2 grand is the estimate they gave him. Has...