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You mean, members of the public trying to pull fast ones on the public? Business owners are members of the public. Part of the reason it's so difficult for the average joe to start his own business is because of those regulations. But anyhow, we're getting pretty far off topic here.

I don't know what you mean by that.

If you really want to promote free enterprise and an environment conducive to thriving business and entrepreneurism, vote Libertarian.

Have you used the trailer yet? I had this idea previously, but I've got experience running a company that specialized in hauling cars, and normally single vehicles don't pay well enough to be worth the hassle of adding a trailer to a van. And other than cars, I don't see much use for the...

I 3rd the "good riddance" of the Detroiter BS. They didn't put price tags on any of their items for sale, and sometimes charged double what PFJ would charge for the exact same purchases. Then you're left with the option to either look like a cheapskate and be a pain to people behind you by...

Thanks for the reply! I don't blame you. I'd have wanted to know that first too.

I didn't read this whole thread, but I'd imagine the reason they're doing this is has to do with taxes. There were probably some states that had relatively lax identification requirements to get a CDL previously, and there were foreigners getting CDLs under false or assumed identities, then...

I know that for many of us, this doesn't sound like the "right" thing to do, but if you're an owner/operator, I don't suggest giving 2 weeks notice before leaving unless you're with a large, established carrier like panther or load1 or some company that you KNOW isn't going to try something like...

Where did you get your transmission flush done? That seems cheap. Those prices include tax?

Yeah, well, I have absolute respect for the job that police officers do out there every day. That said, there are plenty who have proven that they really don't know the law half the time.

Once for a DUI checkpoint, several times by those commercial truck checks near border towns, once for speeding where the speed limit abruptly changed and I didn't see the sign, and another time for an expired plate that wasn't supposed to be expired.(I paid to renew my plates, and had a receipt...

Welcome to EO. I'm sorry to hear about your father.

That's awesome that you've found a good one. I've heard nothing but good things about crossroads express. They were actually my first choice for carriers when I initially got into this business, but they weren't bringing any cargo vans on at the time. As for the factoring fees, there are...

It's not a change that happened in the industry, it's just about who is responding in this thread. The people you see talking about bids are likely either: #1: Running under their own authority, and are both the driver and the dispatcher for their own company. -or- #2: Working with an extremely...

I'm proactive dispatching because I'm dispatching myself too, but thanks all the same. ;) I actually think a smart driver should experience dispatching, and vice versa with a dispatcher, so that both sides understand the plight of the other. It's easy to undervalue the work of, or underestimate...

You should check my edit up there vanman. Added a fun story. :D But you're right, in a place with a bunch of vans, that might not work. But in a place with 500 vans, you're probably not winning the bid anyhow, so it doesn't matter. I add the line every time and it has always worked well for me...

I just put the onus of losing a standing bid on them by utilizing the "notes" section when I place bids. Whenever I place a bid, I subtract however long it will take me to get there from the pickup time, subtract an additional 30 minutes for life happens, and put in the notes that the remaining...

And then what? I'm running a cargo van with no external decals for DOT or MC #'s, no ifta, under 10k GVW, and I've been stopped for various things several times now. I've shown them my BOLs, license, and insurance information, and I've been let go without a citation every time. I have the...

I don't like running cheap freight, but I do what I have to do sometimes. I ended up averaging about 70 cpm this past week because I took a cheap load from Texas to Chicago to get back to the midwest shipping lanes. But that was 4200 miles at 70cpm average. Would definitely rather do that than...

Haha, when I first saw the headline, I was like "Oh no!" Every industry that gets a TV show or movie ends up being garbage afterward. Like Uship with shipping wars, or storage auctions with storage wars. I got to see both of these before those TV shows were on the air, and can say that these...