Can a Detailer Own a Black Truck?

[Mr. Clean]

...I recently bought shingles for one of my garages 1650 lbs I have a bad back so instead of loading them in my pickup and then unloading them at home I had Lowe's deliver them.
They brought them on a pallet and ask where I wanted it, I had him put the skid load at the corner of the garage.

That is how I get by without using mine.
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Truck or not, bad back or not, that (IMO) was the logical choice for delivery.

Most people don't order roofing materials that often. I'm more often hauling landscaping plants and materials at least once each Spring and Fall. Hauling mowers to and from the shop or to other locations for mowing. etc. etc.

 

[TLMitchell]

I recently bought shingles for one of my garages 1650 lbs I have a bad back so instead of loading them in my pickup and then unloading them at home I had Lowe's deliver them.
They brought them on a pallet and ask where I wanted it, I had him put the skid load at the corner of the garage.

The correct answer is "On the roof!" Last roofing materials I had delivered the jobber had a conveyer on top of the truck. All the materials were already up there when the roofers got to the job. Just had to move stuff around for the tear off.

TL

 

[black bart]

The correct answer is "On the roof!" Last roofing materials I had delivered the jobber had a conveyer on top of the truck. All the materials were already up there when the roofers got to the job. Just had to move stuff around for the tear off.

TL

We used a hydraulic lift to raise them up to the roof.

 

[groebuck]

I own 3 Black vehicles and keep them looking good. you should be able to keep one looking good.

I bought a new Focus in Black and it has soft clear and it is much harder to keep from marring it, The other 2 are not bad to maintain.

I seen on the news this morning oil is over $81.00 and expected to go up.

The V8 Tundra is a gas hog you may want to think about that, I know I sure would not want to buy the fuel for it when fuel hits 5 buck per gallon and it will in the next couple years.

When that happens those who own those vehicles will not be able to give them away.

I see all these big Tahoe's and things like that people are buying they are in a state of denial but when gas hit 5 to 7 bucks a gallon they will wake up.

actually oil will not hit 5-7. If you remember the last time they upped prices to (for americans) unheard of rates it was due to such reasons as

katrina
the war in the gulf
i have a boo boo

- opec nations and greedy oil companies used fabricated reasons to inflate oil prices. You notice how BP has spilled millions of barrels into the GoM and lost an drilling platform but it has not affected the price of oil as much as losing ONE refinery.....funny that. Oil is reliant on auto and vice versa (see who killed the electric car..). Look at e85. We can run cars on corn but in my city there is 1 count it 1 gas station that sells e85. And I live in a top 20 city...Cleveland. ( I mention this because I drive an avalance which i a big v8 truck that has some pretty smart tech like it turns off 4 cylinders while crusing to improve mileage and can run on e85).

High oil costs only drive the demand for alternative fuel...and don't forget there is a very large chunk of that 2.85 a gal you pay right now that is taxes...fed, state and local. What will really drive the price of oil is China. They are fast becoming the largest consumers of petrolium as they become a nation of drivers. China is a communist country so there in lies driving factor. How much is the government willing to pay for oil..keeping in mind the average person in china makes A LOT less than the average american worker.

 

[JaredPointer]

Look at e85. We can run cars on corn but in my city there is 1 count it 1 gas station that sells e85. And I live in a top 20 city...Cleveland. ( I mention this because I drive an avalance which i a big v8 truck that has some pretty smart tech like it turns off 4 cylinders while crusing to improve mileage and can run on e85).

E85 & 10% ethanol blend is not only more costs more to produce than it's worth (factor in subsidies the Us government pays farmers to NOT grow corn as well as refining and blending costs), but it's a nightmare on all types of motors that aren't designed to run ethanol. Boats, lawn equipment, and various types of other small engines are destroyed in short time frames due to 10% ethanol fuel. I, along with many other people in the US, hope that ethanol will go away. Highly unlikely, I know, but there's a whole lot more people that dislike it than there are that do. I also believe that you get worse gas mileage running ethanol fuel than you would on the same gasoline without ethanol.

I know that's sort of a rabbit trail from the original post, but like fully electric cars, I don't think ethanol blended fuel is a viable "alternative energy" source for the long run. I wish my city only had a few places that sold ethanol blended fuel.

Everyone seems to want to bicker about high gas prices, but the simple solution is that if you have to worry about money because of the MPG's your car gets, you shouldn't have bought that car. Don't buy something you can't afford. Seems like Americans have a problem with that, no matter what the good happens to be.

 

[shuddleston]

I am a part time mobile auto detailer and keeping up the apperance of a full size quad cab black truck was a nightmare. I traded it the other day and will probably not buy another black vehicle anytime soon.

 

[groebuck]

E85 & 10% ethanol blend is not only more costs more to produce than it's worth (factor in subsidies the Us government pays farmers to NOT grow corn as well as refining and blending costs), but it's a nightmare on all types of motors that aren't designed to run ethanol. Boats, lawn equipment, and various types of other small engines are destroyed in short time frames due to 10% ethanol fuel. I, along with many other people in the US, hope that ethanol will go away. Highly unlikely, I know, but there's a whole lot more people that dislike it than there are that do. I also believe that you get worse gas mileage running ethanol fuel than you would on the same gasoline without ethanol.

I know that's sort of a rabbit trail from the original post, but like fully electric cars, I don't think ethanol blended fuel is a viable "alternative energy" source for the long run. I wish my city only had a few places that sold ethanol blended fuel.

Everyone seems to want to bicker about high gas prices, but the simple solution is that if you have to worry about money because of the MPG's your car gets, you shouldn't have bought that car. Don't buy something you can't afford. Seems like Americans have a problem with that, no matter what the good happens to be.

yeah there is a big difference between e85 and 10% ethanol gas. Mine was designed for flex fuel (e85) and yes e85 nets lower mileage but also costs less (it needs to be 30% less than the current price of regular gas to offset the mileage difference). The mileage is actually because the flexfuel car is still using compression for petrolium rather than ethanol - which when done right well...the second most powerful super car Koenigsegg CCXR runs on 100% E...1040hp.

Saab makes a car that gets the same mileage on e85 ad regular gas but it's not sold here. I'm no engineer but it seems to me the chevy volt, an electric car that is re-powered by a gas engine sould run e85 since the engine is not technically pushing the car it can burn what ever fuel it wants..and I still don't understand why they can't make an electric car for places like arizona, texas, nevada etc that has solar recharging panels...

 

[black bart]

It takes more energy to produce a gallon of E85 than what it has in it.
If the goal is to save energy E85 is a terrible idea.

If they find a more efficient way of making it and make it from switch grass then it could save energy but we do not have that technology yet.
If you had a tiny car with a 20 foot solar panel on it you could go 10-15 mph max as long as the sun was shining if it clouds over your walking.

Here in the midwest we get our electricity from coal powered power plants plug in electric cars will cause MORE pollution than a gas engine car.

I live in a rural area most popular vehicles are Ford F350 Super Duty and 3500 Chevy Duramax

You see them hauling cattle feed pulling grain wagons out of Fields all sort of things that a lessor vehicle could never do.

I read on one forum in particular NOT DC that everyone should have a small vehicle these people are idiots and when I read their complaints I think of the old saying NEVER xxxxx ABOUT A FARMER WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL

 

[Reddwarf]

so what will you do for the railroad? Which one? Out of college I went to work for Southern Pacific in their real estate department. Sadly when they tried to merge with Santa Fe (long time ago) I was laid off. I learned a lot there and wish the job would have lasted longer. I liked working for the railroad and it was cool to drive my territory and see the rail yards.

 

[OCDinPDX]

Conductor and hopefully engineer (eventually).

 

[Reddwarf]

Conductor and hopefully engineer (eventually).

That's very cool!

 

[tmacsad]

Like I said - I really like the F-150. I think it just needs some work in the power department, which I believe Ford is addressing. If there is a domestic company out there right now showing folks how to do it, it's definitely Ford.

I like the F-150 as well JP :bigups

I think you can be a detailer and own a black truck...

I bought my project truck of of a guy for $3700. It had 105K on it...I replaced the side views, tail gate, nurf bars, heater core, fog lamps, and the back glass. It's a work in progress but its starting to come around.

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