Housekeeping: Happy Labor Day 2025!

by Tim Healey

Published: August 29th, 2025

It's Labor Day weekend in the States, and you know what that means -- we're off on Monday.

Some of us will be watching football and NASCAR -- raises hand -- while the rest of us will do whatever it is that we do to relax.

Back at it Tuesday -- and UCOTD, which took a short break due to travel, will return, too.

Look for a first drive of a new old engine next week, as well as the usual tomfoolery. News, views, and reviews -- that's us.

Until then, stay safe. Don't drink and drive. Enjoy your holiday.

We'll see you Tuesday.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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MaintenanceCosts on Sep 01, 2025

I spent a car-optimized Labor Day weekend.

We got in the car on Friday, and drove comfortably over about 200 highway miles to a nearby large city that has an extraordinary wealth of attractions. Then we parked the car in a garage spot belonging to our AirBNB host, and left it there until this morning as we walked and biked around the city while seeing, doing, and eating lots of great stuff. This morning, we got back in the car and drove home on the highway..

The car did the thing that cars are great at and was not asked to do things it's terrible at.

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- Normie on Sep 02, 2025
  
  Cars are great when you don't need them.
  
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Lou_BC on Sep 02, 2025

I had to work on Labour day. Makes for a nice boost to the paycheque. I did have a chance to go to a local lake for a while. The hords of RV campers were heading home to get ready to send the kids to school.

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- MaintenanceCosts on Sep 02, 2025
  
  I hope you at least got a premium. When I was in a union, I also had to work Labor Day (unless approved for time off via normal procedures) but the contract called for time and a half for all work on Labor Day and 2.25 time for any work on Labor Day that was overtime.
  
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- Lou_BC on Sep 03, 2025
  
  The collective agreement I'm under calls for 2.5x pay plus day off in lieu(or payout) on "super stats" which are Christmas day, Good Friday, and Labour Day.
  
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