Is it because you also regularly spend your evenings drinking too much wine and flipping through your 1993 and 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee brochures, lamenting the fact that Jeep only ever built 1,500 of these magnificent SUVs?

I suspect that after deducting the costs of using your own car, especially if you use commercial insurance like you should(pretty sure normal insurance won’t pay out if they find out the accident happened while you are delivering) that the job isn’t much of a loss.

I feel bad for the driver who got a “did not follow instructions” review from me but at the same time half of the drivers just leave packages on the sidewalk on a busy street?

1. make cities too expensive to live in

This should not be cross posted to Jalopnik.

As someone living in Chicago, I can confirm that terrible traffic, limited parking, and high parking costs can definitely discourage you from owning a car. I think banning cars outright is not a feasible solution, but making it even worse to actually use a car in the city while making big improvements to bike access…

The real complaint from most people really is “why should my tax dollars be used for something I don’t care about?”

I agree with your points, just want to chime in to say that the other way to look at it is that you’re making the other modes easier, which can be useful in convincing people that this is the best way forward.

Congrats on quitting! 

Ozone in the stratosphere = good

Interesting. A buddy of mine acquired a pickup that had been smoked in religiously. In a previous lift, it was another friend’s work truck for a tile company, and was used as the office/smoking lounge.  Anyway, a good cleaning and some time with the ozone machine, and the truck doesn’t smell like cigs at all now. …

We never had much luck with Ozone machines either, when I was in car sales. For us, the better option was steam cleaning/alcohol wipes, followed by Fabreze.

We used to use these when I was in sales. Never found them particularly effective, myself, especially when dealing with smoked-in vehicles. At best, they’d simply hide the scent for 24 hours or so, and then it would come back with a vengeance.

A little over a year ago I bought a car that had been smoked in, probably quite a bit, which the seller managed to hide really well. It was spotless, and I didn’t start to smell it until a week or so after I got it home. Might have been suffering from allergies when I test drove it.  I scrubbed the interior from top…

no idea how much ozone this thing produces vs other polluting machines but what are the concerns for the environment? from what i remember Ozone down low contributes to smog etc. 

My client Mark runs an ozone truck that cleans hockey and football equipment out of Western Pennsylvania. I can say that ozone, without a doubt, will remove the sweat and stank odors that tend to come from the gym or hard workouts.

I think I need to get my hands on one of these soon for some of my detailing clients. I used the store bought Ozium aerosol spray in my last car when I quit smoking and it worked pretty well. After cleaning every square inch of the interior and changing the cabin filter, I ran the car with the ac on full blast with…

We haven’t seemed to have good  luck with the Ozone machines here at my work. What we’ve been using is Biocide Systems. It’s pricey but seems to work well. We don’t do many vehicles but if we had to do a lot often, then the ozone would probably be the best way to go.