Recent content by Panzer

RE: Need straight truck with liftgate and friendly One thing to remember about moving computer cabinets is that they are top heavy and unstable. At the data center where I used to work an impatient Sun tech attempted to unload one himself, and was killed when it fell over on him.

Securing the cargo, loading properly, and such are to me what I worry the most when I begin expediting. I can go to school or get a class B by myself. But proper and PROFESSIONAL cargo handling and securing is where I don't know where to get. I expect I will be teamed with someone who will...

I think that we can all agree on is that we produce too much crap.... Well, looks like that crap is useful for something other than fertilizer. They expect to produce 1,000,000 liters of Bio-Diesel each year, while at same time producing clean water. I think eventually, Diesel will stabilze...

>I 55 from St Louis to Chicago. Spot on! The biggest and about the only hill between the two is the that giant trash mound about a hundred miles out from Chicago!

As someone who has been researching changing careers from an employed IT professional to the uncertain world of expediting, the workshop help me make the decision to make the jump. I did learn some new things and had a lot of the info on this board confirmed. Also, meeting some of the people...

There have been some reports from the truckers roundtable forum that sometimes, LOE are more generous and fogiving to O/O with the OOIDA sticker. If true or not, cannot vouch for it, only reporting what I read.

What's interesting too is the way people change when driving. I had a buddy of mine who was an accountant and about as bookish, meek looking guy you ever saw. Never raised his voice, laid back, and all around nice guy. But.... Get him behind the wheel and he makes the late Dale Ernhart look...

All I can say is that I do hope the oil companies put their profits into research and exploration for new resourcces. Research into alternative fuels, like bio-diesel, Alcohol types, and Hydrogen. They have the network and distrubtion for this to work. And of course, keep finding new ways to...

FYI, Microtel hotel just across the interstate rooms are 1/3 the price at the Holiday Inn.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security has tapped the nation's truckers to help find a man who has been seen taking photographs of tanker equipment. On three separate occasions, the man also asked truck drivers several questions about deliveries and operations, according to the...

I don't understand how anyone can drive like that. I hate even having a postit note on my dash or anything else which reflects on the windshield!

Great tip!

Please keep us updated with your expierences every so often. Thanks

GM problems are self-inflected. By this I mean the unions and managment failed to adapt. The unions workers are overpaid (some make $65.00 an hour if you include benifits) and the managment failed to adapt and take chances. They relied too mucn on the SUV's for there profits, and when gas...

Still over $3.00 a gallon up in Elk Grove Village, IL. So fill up before heading there.