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We were on hometime (hadn't been home for over 4 mths) and sitting in Hudson, Wi. We called backhaul and they told us about a load about 70 miles away going within 150 miles of our home. After giving us the shippers phone, and going over the procedure to backhaul, we were told that you have to...

We delivered a load 80 miles from Las Vegas awhile back and were 9th on LA board. We got a reposition suggestion to LA but decided to hang out at a nearby trkstop for a bit. Within 30 minutes we got a load offer to pick up a load out of Las Vegas going even further from a board, below rate...

What $$ have been offered by computer generated EM"s?....we were told with the new VT when you deliver a load to say, Mt or Wy, that the system would quote give you "Good Money" to EM to say SLC. I am not sure what the "system" considers "Good Money" but our experience has been like 7 cpm, for...

Easier to get them corrected on weekdays!

Scuba, I guess better wording would have been for me to say maybe a suggestion by the driver's council for Panther to put it out to everyone, either via email or the Panther website or even a QC msg to tell everyone to check their email for info regarding this or anything else may have...

Turtle, I believe in a previous post, Bernieh said she was able to reach dispatch but not get through to driver relations. I totally understood her to mean "driver relations" after reading the other posts. Just because she did not re-iterate that does not mean there is more or less to the...

termite289 you're right about the frt slowing and we are happy to hear the QC go off and to get a load!! sometimes it's not exactly what we dreamed of but things could be worse!! One trucking friend said to me recently.. "I'd haul a bucket of *^#* to Bug Tussel if it pays me a dollar", I...

well, even if it wasn't the driver's council's idea, i think you should have said "let us present this to the ENTIRE FLEET for their opinion rather than taking it upon yourselves to answer for the rest of us. We do have a 100% acceptance and sometimes it may drop a bit into the 90's so we are...

Well I have sent a message to you under send driver council a message about this and you still have not responded and i sent it the 1st day they sent out the msg on QC about this.

Law of the Sea Treaty, according to talk shows (Quinn and Rose, Glenn Beck, etc) is back in the picture again...supposedly a senate committee passed it and it is going to possible passed in the Senate. I heard on the talk show that this treaty, if passed would give the United Nations the say so...

Amen to that!! where did this article come from? I'd like to have it. At least he's got the nerve to tell it like it "should be"!!!

RE: An Economic and Trucking Slowdown is Happening The original post is a quote from a magazine!! Perhaps ATEAM believes the article, perhaps they are just passing along information. Accusing them of trying to scare the newbies by posting a quote...I don't think of it as a scare tactic, just...

I don't see how this can possible NOT affect the expedite industry to an extent. Many companies do quite a bit of NLM loads which originate or deliver at forwarding companies in border cities. Why keep the middle man if a load can be taken all the way by mexican trucks. Only time will tell...

Dave, you're right about not losing board position or getting refusals for reduced rate loads...at least that is the way it is supposed to be....however...in the past week, we have ran into numerous people telling us that they have had to call to have refusal corrected for reduced-rate loads...

100% on-time p/u and delivery for 33 months in expediting and 4 yrs OTR. Planning ahead for fuel stops and staying ahead of schedule is the key. We like to p/u early if possible and that gives us more time on the load for any problems such as traffic back-ups. Also we use Co-pilot 9 GPS which...