Posted by cloud on
November 23, 2009
The Chevy Colorado is an excellent compact pickup truck. Technically speaking, though, the Colorado is more midsize, which is a good thing if you’re looking for a reasonably priced truck that is great for hauling, but if you’re looking for something really hardcore and industrial, you should probably stay away from the Chevy Colorado. It’s very easy to maneuver, but that doesn’t take away from its aggressive attitude. The Colorado’s handling is pretty sweet both on-road as well as off it. It’s not as powerful as some would like their truck to be, and that’s the fault of its engines which are four and five cylinders. Through the years, the engines have increased in power, and you can even get a V8 engine now. After the praise comes the criticism. The Chevy Colorado, many agree, could have done without the plethora of in-cabin hard plastics, build quality that’s anything but consistent, and style is not a word you can use in the same sentence as ‘Chevy Colorado’.
Presently, the Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck is available in standard cab, extended cab as well as in crew cab configurations. The cargo beds of the regular and extended cab models are 6-feet-long, and the one in the crew cab version is 5-feet long. The regular Colorado seats three persons, the extended cab ones seat five and the crew cabs seat six, although it’ll be quite a tight fit in the latter two models.
Another great thing about the Chevy Colorado is that you can get it in three different trim levels, which are ‘Work’, ‘VL’ and ‘LT’. With the first two, you get features like tilt steering, automatic headlights, air conditioning and cruise control. The more expensive LT gets you more options, materials that are upgraded and a stereo that’s nicer than the one in ‘Work’. You can get the LT trim only for the crew cab models, but ‘Work’ and ‘VL’ you can get in both, regular as well as extended cab models. The Colorado comes with your choice of drive system – two-wheel or four-wheel plus dual-range transfer case. You have multiple options for suspension – Z85 heavy-duty and Z71 off-road packages, both of which add a torsion-bar front suspension that has heavier duty shock absorbers. Another option is the ZQ8 which gets you a lowered, performance tunes suspension, performance tires, exterior mods and 18-inch wheels. We’re done with the antipasti, let’s get to the meat – the engine.
When it comes to engines in the Chevy Colorado, you get to choose between these three options: a 2.9-liter, 185-horsepower four-cylinder, a 242-hp, 3.7-liter five-cylinder and a 5.3-liter V8 that puts out 300 hp and 320 lb-ft of torque. Only with the 2.9-liter do you get to choose between five-speed manual or automatic transmission, while with the others, you get a standard four-speed transmission. The overall impression that the Colorado leaves you with isn’t all that great; this is not a truck you can’t do without. On the plus side, the Colorado has more room and handles better than the one that came before it, but alas, there are the negatives to consider too.
Posted by cloud on
August 25, 2009
If you are supposing to buy a truck or you are already in truck business, Insurance is most important area you have to cover while being in truck business. Insurance policy assured you coverage for vehicle and a driver from any kind of incident. Insurance help you to overcome from a loss in accident. Here are some tips for choosing perfect commercial truck insurance and offer you maximum benefits.
- Find out top insurance companies which are financially strong so you will be tension free and sure about insurance coverage for losses.
- Always go through high liability limits and inexpensive coverage.
- Non- trucking liability coverage will take care of you.
- Choose wide range of coverage protect you from non smashing losses like fire, theft, animals, or overloads.
- Follow accessories coverage which include antennas, custom paint, wheels etc. because many insurance company don’t cover customer elements in policy.
- Cost coverage policy should be replaced by you, which is applicable for personal property damaged and stolen.
- Be sure about physical damage.
- Replace cost coverage term because many companies provide cash money for your loss.
- Make you policy under third party coverage for you when you are loading another owner’s entity.
- Motor truck cargo legal liability protect from load of losses in specific conditions.
Some more insurance policies are available in market for different type of coverage. An occupational accidental coverage take responsibility of your medical bills in case of accidents happened at the time of working. Emergency Expenses Coverage protect you from the loss of staying or coming home from working but the condition is your home should be far at lease 50 miles from accident place, In this condition insurance company consider your claims. If you are in the business of container or trailer then you need Trailer interchange coverage policy. If in case trailer change agreements this interchange policy will help you by its coverage. Interchange coverage is a policy that helps to transfer trailer from one trucker to another trucker after completed the shipment order.
Posted by cloud on
August 15, 2009
Right Commercial truck insurance is very difficult to get because insurance policies take responsibility of any kind of event happen with truck and truck driver like damage, injury etc. One most important thing to keep your truck safe, you should take good commercial truck insurance policies Commercial insurance policies are deal with accident, damage, injury situations and more to be beneficial for truck owner and drivers. While commercial truck insurance doesn’t provide security for stolen or hijacked conditions. Every one expect for prefect commercial truck insurance as per the owner’s requirement and economic limit. So they have to search proper and suitable type of insurance for their trucks which will provide coverage to vehicle and driver.
Generally all kind of truck insurance policy provides standard terms and conditions. This standards offer coverage, cost or liability on terms which are stated in policy (generally terms means human, machine as truck and good or shipment in this case.) However the remote areas or difficult to reach that areas like Alaska, the insurance policies on truckers are varies according to area of traveling. So this is more important to search right insurance policy which will cover all possible areas and prevent truck owners from any type of risk. The truck owner should choose right insurance policy.
Trucks: a big machine. Truck spend most time on road to serve good all over world and truck drivers who spend their time to drive everywhere, at every risk, whether, in all condition so they deserve a good company of truck insurance policies and insurance companies are very important for transportation industry. Before finalize insurance company make sure that policy will cover real accidents or not and coverage for possible damage.
Find out right commercial truck insurance follow some tips and get maximum benefits. Firstly take an overview that which company is most popular in truck insurance field by other truckers and take their experience about those companies. Make sure that you choose company that operates faster than other in case of accidents and does quick coverage returns. Most important aspect of your policy is amount of insurance you are paying. Each policy is different from each other; find out detailed information about that policy through agent. Discuss every thing you have not understand and the premium might be decided by your previous record of driving because insurance company runs license. Once you finalize your policy you will be tensionless that you will covered by your insurance policy.
