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No idea on a budget ballpark. Other than what you spend on batteries and cables, cable lugs, regulators, isolators, etc., it all comes down to labor. Someone who knows what they are doing should be able to do the entire thing in a day, so plan labor costs accordingly. Talk to truck dealers...

"...dodge dealer was to alt was to small not enough volts." Go back to that Dodge dealer and politely beat them about the head and shoulders with the old alternator. It's the voltage regulator that determines the volts. A fuse never blows because of volts, be they too low or too high. They...

Frequent Fueler Card at the Flying J, with their free showers that accumulate on the card, pretty much take care any cash discounts. I fill up at the RV or the car diesel pumps and pay with my debit card. Every couple of fillups I get a free shower and a free drink. I can use my Comdata card...

I've got 118,000 miles on my original Michelin tires. They're just about to the 4/32 tread depth mark. No, 120,000 is not normal. Neither is 118,000. Normal is about 80,000. Don't know if you're lucky, or if you maintain the tires properly. Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race...

The kid in the first video is good, but the master is Stanley Jordan. In a class all by himself, he's technically amazing and musically astounding. He certainly wasn't the first to play in this manner, but the way he developed and implemented it truly sets himself apart...

That's an easy one. You can do well as an expediter, as well as any expediter can do, but it might still not be enough money to meet your financial obligations. Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

And I've only scratched the surface. Things can get much more complicated, actually. Like, Greg brought up a question in that other thread that I neglected to address, which is why would they put a 30-60 amp alternator on an APU. Basically, it's because most starter batteries require a...

We have a cat at home who has us well trained. When he does his business in the litter box, he will not, absolutely, go into the litter box again until someone has scooped the poop and he has a poop-free space with which to work. If someone forgets, he uses the center of the bed, instead...

I'd recommend separating out the starting batteries from the house bank batteries. Use the starting batteries to start the thing, use the house bank to run everything else. I'd go with Dave on the Autozone batteries for the truck. That or some higher end Deka commercial batteries. And then I'd...

"Your complaint should be with the Michigan authorities who agreed to Republic's contract." My complaint? I wasn't complaining, I was commenting. There's a difference. I could care less either way. I don't even live in Michigan. Kentucky, where I live, has its own set of garbage follies...

Not a big deal. I can resize them here with all these tools already. But regardless of the size, I cannot get a picture to attach to this forum. I've probably got something in the system blocking the script that does it. Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

As I understand it, Michigan wanted to quit taking garbage from Canada and other states, but they were told that that would interfere with interstate commerce (waste is an article of interstate commerce, and it is Congress that regulates interstate commerce), so they had to keep on taking it...

"We cant walk into stores,dealerships,parts places or what ever and get a price on something then turn around and say nope thats to high but this is what i will pay and not a dime more....." Oh, you'd be surprised. Maybe not in the not a dime more mode, and not as often at the retail level, but...

Yeah, the cruise control can't anticipate, it doesn't know what's half a mile up the road. Adjustments aren't made until it's too late, so you wind up losing much of your inertial speed to gravity and then it requires a significant amount of fuel and horsepower to overcome just the gravity of...

Wet wipes? You mean like baby butt wipes? Oh, no. For general cleaning I use the disinfecting towelettes. But for my face, I use [/i]Pond's® Pond Clean Sweep Cleansing and Make-up Remover Towelettes[/i], because they deep clean my pores and leave my skin silky soft and smooth. Infused with...

Good question. My version of the answer involves a wienie with no backbone who was afraid of losing a customer at contract signing time so they said, "Yeah, sure, whatever you want." And they then decided to short the truck for the difference. That's why I actually keep track of the...

>Recruiting continues to recruit and the fleet size stays >about the same. That's good news, is it not? If you have x-number of trucks and are doing an average of 1150 shipments a day, and then you still have the same x-number of trucks when you're averaging 650 shipments a day, I'm gonna go...

Caterpillar - good example of a customer who has been contracted to figure miles on Rand McNally miles, which I swear uses dirt roads and farm service roads though corn fields to figure distances. When a customer who is contracted a certain way calls in with a load, they already know how many...

The "livetvforpc" thing isn't really a scam, but it's scummy just the same. All they do is collect links to Web sites and free software that allow you to watch live streaming video, some of it TV stations, and then, for a fee, present to you those links. You're paying for their hard work in...

Well, I've never had a speeding ticket, but I'm not a slow-moving hazard on the road, either. I'll drive as fast as conditions allow, up to the speed limit, once in a while cheating a few miles an hour here or there. It mostly depends on surrounding traffic and how fast they are going. If...