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I know I've thrown some negative ingredients into the pot lately, but here is how I really feel about FDCC. In the just shy of five years I have been with the Fed they were good to us for the most part. Afterall, I was able to get out of hauling grocery warehouse products and tractor parts in...

So how does it feel for all of you high dollar reefer units (like myself) to be informed by your carrier that they will no longer be paying the truck reefer relocation? We got our phone call today giving us the good news! Instead you just get the regular deadhead rate as I understand it. For...

Since Jan 1st,2008 through today we have averaged 1.6 temp controlled loads per month in our ER-unit. Granted, we've not taken our trailer to be recertified for T-val. But, in talking with several of our T-val friends we're told thats also been slow. Sounds as if we've not missed much there. We...

This thread is meant to simply ask those of us fortunate enough to have showers in our sleepers, when and where do you use your shower? Does your shower have a holding tank? Do you contain the wastewater until you can dump at an appropriate location (offsite), or do you just dump it where you...

I'm curious about this, so I'm gonna ask! How many owners (team) out there would (or do) give up the bed in their sleeper to accomadate a customer's ride along courier? How many fleet owners ask their drivers to "give up the bed" for the courier? Would you as a fleet driver drive for an owner...

You are dispatched to assist another truck load or unload their freight. In the course of assisting you are injured inside of their box. Say that you are not at fault for your injury or only have a partial responsibility for your injury. The injury causes you to loose time from being able to...

We receive a load offer today that left us both laughing! The run was a total of 38 miles paying a gross of $17.40. Yes, you heard me right! It was a B rate load being offered to an ER-unit. I'm sure it was just a typo, if not I really feel for the van rates! LOL

What is with the Pilot in North Fort Worth,TX lately? It is a major trash hole today!!! We used to prefer to stay at this loction when laid over in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. There is Cabelos across the street, Subway and Mc Donalds in the Pilot and IHOP right next door. This makes it a nice...

A while back I had this reeeally exquisite dish at a Casino restaurant the wife and I frequent. It consisted of angel hair pasta, portabello mushrooms, and vodka sauce. I knew I must have this dish again sometime soon. So, while recently purchasing food supplies for the truck's pantry I came...

It seems the trend in expedite trucks is to buy a big sleeper with all of the amenities on-board to be more comfortable and save on motel bills. Great idea until the "34 hour restart! Why buy these sleepers so that we don't have to go into the truckstop to eat,pee,and shower, only to be told...

How far will you go to accommadate a customer's Courier regardless of the length of the run? Do you have a single or double bunk sleeper? What if dispatch said the customer required that the drivers provide a bed for the courier to sleep in, regardless of the driver(s) having a bed availible for...

Here's a hypothetical (but potentually real) situation to ponder: You've picked up your sealed load at the shipper and part way into the run you (a T/T rig) break down or you (T/T or Straight truck) become extremely ill. Be you solo or team in a straight truck or T/T lets say circumstances keep...

We started our careers in expediting four years ago this month. We had driven 18 wheelers for years but chose the go into a DR-unit when we switched from common carrier to expediting. It wasn't long before I swore I'd never drive an 18 again. The ease of maneuvering a DR-unit around and finding...

Although the following situation is something any of us is faced with when we go into a facility that does vehicle searches, I'm going to pose this question as a hypothetical situation: Its a rainy day and the ground is muddy at the shipper/receiver's vehicle inspection point. You are told to...

I recently inquired about changing from our DR unit to an ER unit. We have over 20 accident and ticket free years tractor trailer experience between us. It has been less than four years since we down sized to a DR unit. We have kept our class A CDL just in case we ever wanted to go back to...

For six and one half years, work a month (or two), come home, park bobtail, then 40' DR-unit in driveway of home we own. No problems, no complaints from neighbors, never hear a word from "Code Enforcement". Leave home end of 1/07, go to work, come home beginning of 3/07. Find letter from "Code...

How many times while enroute to California on I-80 were you stopped at Verdi,NV because Donner Pass was closed or at the very least required you to chain up due to snow and ice conditions? Rather than take a chance did you pull into Boomtown and park to wait out the storm? Did you feel...

This was recently told to me by a friend that was offered the following and I would be interested in other's thoughts on this: While they were enroute deadheading to Dever,Co dispatch sent them an offer. It was a transfer load which required they meet another truck in the Dever area early the...

In reading A-Team's thread "Two kinds of out of service" something has been mentioned that disturbs me. A carrier asking that you allow another driver(s) to take your truck to complete a run. This also reminds me of a rumor I've heard that on some of the "High Security" freight the drivers are...

Recently I've been contacted by several team drivers that have had a bad experiance with a fleet owner out of Georgia. Some claim to have lost as much as tens of thousands of dollars to this fleet owner, which they feel has been wrongfully kept. These drivers are wanting to file a Class Action...