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That was the whole works McBride. I can run other numbers for ya and see what we come up with, you pay a bit more for a Onan, and I can get others. but the Onan is very comon in the RV field and thus, much easier to get fixed. I know of some RV shops that will work on nothing but Onan. 5500...

a LOT of lea's have their own trucks. The company I am singed with is a LEA and we have 5 of our own trucks. That is kind of the way it works. I know of 2 others that have their own trucks as well. We kind of work as a team, sharing loads the we can't cover with them and vice versa. Of course...

Not sure bright lights are a wise idea. They would blind someone at night. Slowing reducing speed sounds MUCH safer to me to get some one off your butt. I've also noticed since our new truck got rear ended that a beat up ICC bar does the same for you. Guess they figure if someone else hit you...

Having run a cargo van for PII I would should suggest aginst it. It is very hard to spilt .77 a mile. A driver does not really want to run for .46 a mile and spend half, if not more on fuel for the van. The FSC panther collects is sometimes really good (.25 or better) but they do have some...

It's not a monthly cost to use idle air, I think it is by the hour or the night. So you only pay for it when you use it.

They will.. but it'll cost ya 15,000 bucks, of that the mechanic might see 85 dollars :( I'm working on my own now. if I did it, it's roughly half that, or around 8,500.

RE: is there a good backhaul website for expeditor expediteloads.com is a joke. A company I was with subsribed to it for 6 months. never got a good paying expedite load off of it. The one load we did paid 1.35 a mile for a cargo van. All the others where offering less than a buck a mile for a...

Heres what can go wrong with them. They have to many parts in to small of an area. In the box you have a diesel engine (2 cylinders in most) a a/c compressor, a a/c condenser, radiator, fan and a generator. All driven by a belt. In the sleeper of the truck you have the controls, the a/c and heat...

I remember hitting one with my old 54 Ford Skyliner.. Deer looked like a mack truck had hit it (ground beef) Total damage to the car, broken head light.. Got pulled over later that night for no head light. Cop didn't believe the deer story until he saw the fur hanging under the car. I had a...

Teams can't run out of hours unless they hit their restart. It's nice to know panther will pickup the tow bill. I am pretty should if your truck broke down you'd be paying it though. He was probably detained at the shipper, panther is sticklers about that, you must log it as on duty time (some...

Like when you accept a load because dispatch says Omaha NE is a hot bed of freight.. And Contractor support says "If they consider 3 loads a month a hot bed" or "well, I know you just came from Chicago and are in Omaha, but I suggest Chicago to move to" (I didn't by the way, accepted the empty...

You can't strech the hours with Panther. The QC knows and the saftey supervisor will win the fight with you. Always.. Panther will also tow your butt to the revciver if they can't switch out the load (IE a full D unit) They of course will present you with a bill for the tow and the amount will...

The rep? he is there to awnser our questions. And when it comes to what dispatch says. He tells me the truth. When I asked about loads in NE he said we see 5 a month. I doubt there was any sugar coating there. Dispatch said 3-4 a day. He's also corrected payroll problems (I had a pro that did...

When I went through orentation they said that Panther would soon over take Fedex as number one. Perhaps now they have.

Deer are everywhere. They need to extend the season. To give you an idea of how bad they are I'll give you this story. My parents live walking distance from Downtown Minneapolis on 394 (the penn ave exit if you know the area) there is a city owned park near their house that is several 1000...

Companies are starting to want a truck in every express area. Even if it is a area that *might* generate 1 load a day. As a driver we have to be VERY careful about where we are told to move to. And ask LOTS of questions. How many loads a day, how many loads past 3 weeks, how many trucks are...

i am sure the ven ex guys will chime in soon, but the bulk of them are sitting waiting for loads.

I know a parking lot full of fex-ex van in Toledo that will kill someone when they find out about this. Some had been sitting there for days and where ready to take what ever came across the QC.. However, for you, GREAT LOAD. I thought my WI to NE was a good one.

Some do.. Some don't.. Panther requires a 96 or newer when you start. Heres the kicker, as long as you don't have many failures due to break down, you can keep driving it. I ran in to a guy the other day driving a 92 Ford. Some of the older vans in the fleet are starting to look really sad and...

They where not local runs worth a darn. Most where 30-50 miles away from where I was, and 40-50 miles away from a express center. Basically, during my stay in the fine state of MI I paid .30 more a gallon than OH or IN for fuel. I clicked off 825 miles on my van and got paid for 532. I finely...