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RE: About idling!! How to keep down the cost of id A van, or a truck, gas or diesel, will use just about a gallon per hour when idling, some slightly more, some slightly less. That's the way the engines are built. Some of the more fuel efficient ones will use perhaps .8 gallons per hour. A...

So far, at only 62,000 miles though, I've not had to replace any bulbs. Where's that wood? Can you get the bulbs at most any auto parts place, like an Autozone, Advance, Pep Boys, etc., or is it a dealer thing still? I keep reading all over the net about how the headlights go out all the time...

Ive got one of those Microfridges where the microwave is secured to the top of the fridge with rails, with screws through the side rails into the microwave. You could probably rig up something similar, but I'd be very careful about drilling holes into the fridge, or the microwave, for screws...

#1 - Do the other Fn keys work? Like, Fn + whatever brightens or dims the screen, or raises and lowers the audio volume? If not, the Fn functionality has likely been disabled. Have you recently upgraded any of the Toshiba utilities from the Toshiba Web site? Run msconfig.exe to make sure that...

If you get a Microfridge, check out the models carefully. Some have separate freezer compartments (separate doors for fridge and for freezer), which will keep frozen foods frozen, and some do not. The ones that don't have a separate freezer just have the little "freezer area" for an ice tray...

http://www.microfridge.com/ Take a close look at your microwave. If it says it is a 1500 watt microwave, that's probably cooking power, not the power consumption, which will be more. A 900 watt microwave, for example, will draw 1200 watts of AC power. The electrical label on the back of the...

The chances of picture files actually being a CD Image bin file is very remote, unless Cheri took the time to use something like CDRWin to create a bin image. I'm gonna go with unlikely. Most likely is, whatever application Cheri is using for her pictures will save the pictures natively in the...

Espar heater. Live comfortably. Live cost effectively. Recently in -15F degree weather I was warm and toasty lounging in the van wearing less than a shirt and pants. No wasted money in fuel and engine wear to idling. Depending on the Espar model, it'll cost between $1500 and $2000, which is...

RE: landstar/7yrs/super Do people really and truly sit for 24 hours without getting a load, say, in Dayton, move up to #1 on the board, and then because 24 hours have gone by, they abandon their #1 position and move to Columbus or Cincinnati where they find themselves way down on the board...

It will depend the company you are leased to, definitely. Some carriers get more or less loads out of Houston. I'm with Panther. If it were me (and it has been) I'd stay put in Houston if I were #1 or #2 on the board. If I were #3 or lower, and there were no other vans at all in San Antonio, I'd...

RE: I need massive feedback from long-time cargo v They way I look at it is, which will cost more over the course of time, a car or truck payment, or the maintenance to keep it on the road? You can put $3000-$4000 a year in maintenance and that's still way less than the annual payments on a...

RE: I need massive feedback from long-time cargo v I bought a brand new 1987 Dodge Caravan Soccer Mommy Van that lasted 18 years, until 2005, when I slammed into an elk. You know the story, late at night on a narrow two lane road, through the woods by Kentucky Lake, in December, up the little...

I don't know what's funnier, this thread or the video. Vampires? That's an extraordinarily bad analogy. Doesn't even make sense. Vampires suck the blood of living mammals in order to survive. I don't see the connection. Even if someone here were to actually have joy, glee, experience giddiness...

The problem with Verizon is that their terms of service specifically states that I cannot do precisely what I want to use the Internet for, which is constant, sustained downloads of gigs and gigs of data, like movies and software DVD's, streaming video, stuff like that. The want you to check...

Yup. At Con-Way I was making $.80 per mile, plus the flat rate FSC, usually about $.13. I had the option of staying with my Con-Way contract, or signing on with the Panther contract. Con-Way paid better in some areas, like detention, hand unload, east coast pay, and Panther pays better in other...

RE: I need massive feedback from long-time cargo v Sounds good. $1500 is a very doable goal, provided you are willing to stay out several months at a time. Some weeks you will do $2500, some you will do $800, but over time you should be able to average out to your goal. Keep in mind how and...

I'm in a Sprinter with Panther, .77 per mile. I only have the one van. Been with them ever since the Con-Way Scratch-N-Dent sale. There are some long timers with Panther who are still on their old, original contracts, where they are making .85 (probably 3 or more years with Panther), and a very...

Simon Says... " Just curious? What five hour break are they talking about? Teams are not even supposed to run 5 & 5 now." It's a relatively arbitrary break that someone in the Safety Department comes up with as a tangible method of covering Panther's rear end in case a van driver gets into an...

With good insulation, the Airtronic 2 will probably keep that thing warm. But, the Airtronic 4 doesn't cost that much more, and it puts out twice the heat using essentially the same amount of amps and fuel, so regardless, it won't have to work as hard as the Airtronic 2. Whether you do it...

You know, you hear things on the CB, and come to find out that it's all nonsense. We kept hearing about how nasty it was between Effingham and Champaign, how all these big trucks and countless 4-wheelers were in the median and in the ditches, how there were white out conditions, the whole nine...