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Somebody mentioned the Avon Walk. That's a little different. Nobody is telling you that you have to donate or walk in the Avon thing. Even if there is a "sign up fee" to partake in the Avon Walk, by the time you get to the point of pulling out your wallet to pay the fee you've already decided...

On second thought, the item I had posted here seems to be somewhat less than reliable. Maybe other sources. In any case, drought in California makes doing an ice-bucket challenge there look like a really bad idea

Oh, man-- if I could get $2.00 a loaded mile I would be in hog heaven right now. Imagine having enough behind you that the next breakdown isn't a catastrophe! I might actually consider upgrading to a Sprinter or one of the Sprinter-like vehicles.

Gotta question, then I bug out of this thread. Every year, the church I go to has a fund raiser to help supply clean drinking water to people all over the world who don't necessarily have the benefits that we take for granted here in the States. I live in the Chicago area, and while we can...

I'm not against anybody giving money to ALS research. I just don't have any use for the grandstanding that the ice-bucket challenge seems to be about. Tell me that I either have to give 100 dollars, or get a bucket of icewater poured on my head--- and I will promptly tell you where you can go...

Put your van on the scales before you mount a generator to the front. You want to be sure you have enough capacity for it, some vehicles are already close to their front axle weight maximum. Sure, in a van you'll probably never be called to drive your vehicle across the DOT scales, but excess...

I won't take part in this rather silly challenge. If you want to contribute to charity, by all means do so. This ain't the way, though. All this "awareness raising" gives me a headache. From now on, I promise not to be aware even if you use a dog riding a unicycle while smoking a cigar...

I have a question, raised by the opening post. You're signed on as a driver, and therefore not responsible for the maintenance of the vehicle? Pardon me, but isn't one of the driver's responsibilities to be doing a pre-trip and post trip inspections of the vehicle? Maybe it's not your job to pay...

Y'all needs ta make up yer minds. Either we have (or will have) a driver shortage, OR we're all gonna be replaced by robot drivers. If we're getting canned so "Iron Mike" can take over, there won't be a driver shortage because there won't be any drivers such as we've known it. It would sure...

Considering how much time you spend in that seat--- open your wallet, take care when prying out that paper-- it's called "money"-- and spend some of it on a decent seat.

When it breaks--- it's a Mercedes Benz, and it'll cost like one. The newer ones are more complicated-- a combination of EPA mandated hardware and the German tendency to over-engineer everything-- and that adds to the cost.

I keep wanting to make this joke, might as well. You can make money in a van. The problem is, the government frowns on you printing money in your van, so--- maybe not. Prison sentences for counterfeiting being what they are. Note on the implication that only Sprinter vans make any money-- only...

I want somebody else to be the guinea pig on the Transit before I race out and buy one. I want to see what these things are like when you have to get parts and maintenance, what the costs are when something breaks and so on. Sprinters are great until they break, then you find out it's a Mercedes...

I have a small clip-on fan. It runs off of "The Gang of Four" which is a bank of four small gel-cell batteries. Before Turtle has a cow--- that fan is the "Gang of Four"s only job, I recharge it regularly at home and it seems the fan never draws much power while in use. It does keep the fan from...

One thing about these older vans, it's not hard to spend 10K. But, if it's strictly about improvements-- a high roof, better insulation, air conditioning and a decent generator would go a long way. Add an Espar for heat in the winter-- my Big Buddy does the job but it's not the best, as we all...

I'm an old-fashioned coot, I'd go with the manual in half a heartbeat.

I should probably say "Thank you". Y'all just saved me a bundle on faulty Internet service which, now, I won't buy. I'll look at other alternatives now.

The first question-- I'm inclined to keep my tater trap shut for the moment, what I'm actually in is "hotshot" anyway and doesn't make the same thing true expedited does. Those empty, unpaid miles coming back home really eat into your profits! About what you can make-- there are so many...

I'm running a 1998 Chevy 2500. The heavy one, 8600 gross. It'll do 2,500 lbs payload legally. I left courier work because of a number of factors, not least of which was the dirt-cheap pay. The company I worked with ran everything out of their warehouse, you loaded up your route first thing in...

I've been in situations before-- when I was working for a courier-- when dispatch would send two vehicles to pick the same load. First guy gets the freight, second guy gets to go on the list in that location. Reading this stuff reminded me of that- and reminded me that I made up my mind back...