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One thing that sinks the battleship of newbies in vans/Sprinters is coming in underfunded. You don't realize that driving 80,000 to 100,000 miles a year exacts a heavy toll on your equipment and you can, sooner or later, expect stuff to break. Given "Murphy's Law", it'll be the most expensive...

I still think this has a way to go before you race right out to buy your driverless Hupmobile. Right now, my Garmin can be counted on to chart a cross-country path across cornfields, swamps, rivers and so on a good half mile from the actual Interstate I'm supposed to be on for any route over...

Oh boy. I have a BIG problem. I have solid-steel back there, you'd have to be Kal El to be able to see through them. Considerably less than 70% light-transparent, eh? But-- most vehicles these days come equipped with left and right outside mirrors, so I guess that gets us out of that bind...

You do, of course, realize that expedited driving-- delivery driving in general, for that matter-- is a little bit more involved than just pointing a 40-ton rig in the general direction you want it to go on the freeways, right? I wonder how the wonderful computers handle all the rest of it...

Somebody's gotta do it. Somehow I don't think there's going to be a long line of TTs waiting for their chance to haul two pallets at 1,500 lbs, or shippers willing to pay TT rates for that shipment. Sure, I can't take twenty pallets at 20,000 lbs-- but then, that's your part of the market. The...

The outfit I drive for is out-and-back. I'm expected to head back home after the delivery. Of course there's no money in empty miles, and if this outfit were set up so I could get runs by staying out I might do that. But, it's not. So I go home. The reason I stay with this outfit is because...

One concern I have about insurance is how much they'd actually cover if I had to have work done due to accident. My machine is 16 years old and approaching half a million miles. If insurance only covers up to "blue book value" on the van, I'm screwed just paying for comprehensive and collision...

OK, that answered my questions. Taking a wild guess, I'd say you got a slight hydraulic lock driving through all that heavy weather, and the bad problem got progressively worse until catastrophic failure happened a few days ago. There will possibly be a bent connecting rod on #2 cylinder and...

A giant, fire-breathing monster with lots of sharp teeth. I don't look under the bed much.

I'm just a little curious as to what tipped you off that the engine was blown and that it wasn't something simple-- like ignition failure or a bad fuel injector. Did you get any sort of "heads up" ahead of time or was the failure sudden. Just curious, so if/when it happens to me I have an idea...

Re: Forget I bothered Mental note: If I choose an avatar, I should be careful what I use. Considering the nature of this thread, an avatar that makes me look like an incurable Scrooge-- not a good idea. OVM, I'm looking at your avatar.

Re: Forget I bothered If you're that short of cash that you can't afford the tip, then don't go into the restaurant unless you work there. OK. Tips really shouldn't be part of the deal as a requirement. Restaurants should pay their people enough, but the reality is that they don't. They pay...

Re: Forget I bothered General note, attn: everybody. First impressions are everything. What you say and the way you act can be the deciding factor in what happens next. In the example in this thread, we have a waitress who has made such an impression on me that I would never knowingly set foot...

Is the IRS a corrupt federal agency? Is the Pope Catholic? Is this laptop powered by electricity? Is "Star Trek" a sci-fi show? Do bears--- well, you know.

Re: Forget I bothered Act, I said you have a bee in your bonnet and you most certainly do. This whole thread is about nothing else but the buzzing of that angry bee. Heck, even the chosen username is an attempt to shame us into behaving the way you want us to behave. You're not my mother. I...

Re: Forget I bothered I generally don't eat at truck-stop restaurants. For one thing, dollars aren't as common as you seem to think they are, and for another I'm generally trying to move when I'm on the road. At home, I don't go to restaurants period. I came here and just got another reason...

Is it easy to get FedEx shirts? Right now, you have to read the story to find that the man was wearing a company shirt. I gather this was a divorce situation, sounds like the man was trying to wipe out his ex-wife's entire family and it's just dumb luck that she's not dead too.

You wish. The problem is that wheel bearing and rear end oil isn't pressurized. You fill to the appropriate level, and then "splash lubrication" takes over from there. I suppose it might be possible to rig an electronic indicator that would tell you if rear-end oil is too low. There's room to...