Let's compare a car like the Chevy Camaro, with its big V-8 engine, to our hybrid car with its small gas engine and electric motor. The engine in the Camaro has more than enough power to handle any driving situation. The engine in the hybrid car is powerful enough to move the car ...
Some measurements and limits have specifically to do with towing. Towing Capacity is the maximum weight of a trailer that a vehicle can tow, and tongue weight is the pressure put on the hitch of the vehicle. The balance of a trailer’s load has a big effect on the tongue weight, and t...
For years I discussed the importance of checking and adjusting the inflation pressure in your RV tires. This needs to be done when an RV is taken out of storage, before leaving on an RV trip, and while you are traveling. One problem is, finding a portable air compressor capable of inflat...
The Lloyd Expressway is one of the most heavily-traveled roads in Evansville, despite how much residents complain about it. While it's not without its faults, if you've lived in Evansville your whole life like me, or at least long enough to remember a time when "The Lloyd" didn't exis...
While we’ve never traveled with a toilet in our campervan (first theChevy Astro, now the Sprinter), we know a toilet is a must for many people. We might end up trying out the newCuddy composting toilet,which is small enough to fit in a van. ...
The long and short of it is that there are more jobs than workers at the moment and that means better pay for potential employees
Two key specs to look for here are a truck’s payload, which is a measurement of how much weight a truck can carry including both passengers and cargo and the weight of fuel in the gas tank, and its maximum towing capacity, which is how much weight a vehicle can safely tow. Both var...
Let's compare a car like the Chevy Camaro, with its big V-8 engine, to our hybrid car with its small gas engine and electric motor. The engine in the Camaro has more than enough power to handle any driving situation. The engine in the hybrid car is powerful enough to move the car ...