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Ice Road Truckers

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I have discovered a new show that I love to watch, The Ice Road Truckers comes on the History Channel and I love it we caught the marathon for last years shows before the new season started and we are hooked. It is a great show with enough color to keep my interest for an hour. The characters are very feisty and rough it makes for a really fun show to watch, it is the only show that we set in stone to watch. I am going to order the first season and watch all of it again while I am watching the second season.

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Floods

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Now it is floods devastating mid America, it seems like it has been one thing after another this year. Mother Nature has had a very bad year. There are also fires raging in California again, the cycle continues. Japan just had a 7.2 earthquake, this has been a horrible year for natural disasters. Here the drought is over so it seems and we made it through another tornado season so far and gas is under $4.00 a gallon so all is not bad so it seems.

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Van Insurance

Friday, June 13th, 2008

With our business being a delivery service we use vans to do most of the hauling of the newspapers. Using vans can be a bit expensive including the cost of the vans and the fact that they use more gas than the smaller vehicles, but vans save us a lot in the fact that they haul more and for the most part vans are very dependable.

One variable that is common with all the vehicles we use is car insurance, no matter if it is a van or a car you need to have good insurance and finding good van insurance is not as easy as it sounds. Van Insurance can be very expensive if you do not find a good insurance carrier.

The Insurance company I use is the Auto Net Insurance Group, they have fantastic rates for work vans and their service is fantastic. We have had no problems since we began using them to insure our work vans and that is one huge relief off our minds.

One of the things that I love about this Insurance that if within forty eight hours if you find cheaper Insurance they will refund your money, a guarantee like that gives me peace of mind that I have the very best van insurance rates when I use Auto Net Insurance Group, and as high as prices are getting now every penny that we can save is so very important to our small company.

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New lights

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

In our delivery business we have one very significant problem, we deliver newspapers at night, so finding addresses that are not well marked is a huge problem. In some of the neighborhoods we deliver into this problem haunts us nightly.

After doing a bit of searching we have found a solution to our problem. Golight has a very nice spotlight. This great light is perfect for our business, and Larson Electronics has a huge selection from which to choose, including the “Go Light” that I want to purchase.

Check out the Larson Electronics web site at http://www.magnalight.com to see their complete selection of Magna Lights they have on hand, including the “Go Light” I have selected. They have everything from spot lights to flash lights and everything in between. The remote control spot lights are also very nice, and I am thinking about purchasing one of them in the near future.

In our business the inability to locate an address in the darkness of night can be very frustrating and this great light will help us to combat that. I love the fact that the black case color matches my Tahoe and will look very nice mounted on my truck. I think if you are looking to purchase spot lights for your fleet of vehicles, this web site can put you “into the light,” so to speak.

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