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Can anyone tell me why the smoke/co detector in our sleeper is malfuntioning? It is located 6-8" above the floor. Its fine when we are driving down the road. Don't hear a peep out of it when I'm cooking. Does'nt seem to matter if the gen-set is running or not. Backup battery is fine. Since we...

Many members on this forum are trucking pet owners. Some have had on-board pets for years, others like myself have only recently brought a full-time pet on the truck. They bring joy to the truck in many ways. I have approached the administrator of this site with the concept of adding a forum...

Any recommendations on campgrounds or rv resorts in the Seattle, Everette, North Bend, WA area from the rv'n expediters in this community? Need commercial vehicle friendly and accessible for a T/T rig where I can store my trailer safely on site in their storage area.

When you've walked in my shoes, then you can justifiably critique my driving abilities driver! Is'nt it amazing how many drivers out here want to drive your truck for you, or think they can. God forbid you delay them even a few seconds as you manuver your rig into a space, be it a dock or a...

They claim they became lawers because of their passion for law. When in fact the passion is really for the all mighty dollar! They claim they have your best interest at heart and will do everything to see that you get your just reward. Reality is they could care less if they win or loose because...

Be honest with your answer to the following question: When you log on and show your PTI for each day, do you truely check the brake shoes, drums, etc and the hub oil levels? Or do you assume that you will be fine if you do a visual inspection say once every other day? Now we all know what...

Being a small business owner myself, I prefer to take my hard earned money to other small business owners and spend it rather than giving it to the large corporate owned businesses. We (small businesses) are what built this country, and we need to support each other. But not take advantage of...

In another thread I started, I stated that we would be working during the Forth of July holiday. Altough we wished to service a customer in need and we were the only truck in there area with space availible on our deck, the forth is our wedding anniversary. We were in hopes of celebrating it not...

We will be working over the holiday. Not by choice. But out of desire to serve our Air Force. Today we picked up two thrust reversers for one of their C-17 Globemasters. They are going back to be redone and then placed back in service on the waiting aircraft The reverser acts as a braking...

We will be working over the holiday. Not by choice. But out of desire to serve our Air Force. Today we picked up two thrust reversers for one of their C-17 Globemasters. They are going back to be redone and then placed back in service on the waiting aircraft. The reverser acts as a braking...

Yesterday afternoon Jasmine J. Jordan (Jazzy), a seventeen year old girl from Dalton, MN completed her cross-country run from Los Angeles to NYC at Times Square www.runwithjazzy.com. This 3100 + mile run began back in Sept, 2009. Why? In memory of Sheila Kay Grothe, and to draw attention to the...

Well we've finally done it. We've put a pet back on our truck after being told by FECC that we could not have our pet onboard. Being the pet lovers that we are, we really missed not being allowed to have our poodle with us. For my wife's birthday we got her (us) a Mini Boston Terrier pup that...

In the name of safety, I think its time to take back the construction zones along our highways from those whom choose to ignore the law by speeding and driving carelessly through them. Not only are they endangering the workers, they also are putting themselves and those driving around them at...

Mind you, not that I make it a habit of reading Phil's blog page (LOL), I did read his entries for 5/20-5/22. I did so to see how the closing on their Florida home had gone. According to his blog, it did not go for reasons stated in his blog. Being born and raised in Florida and living there...

Correct me if I'm wrong but based on what we have been seeing lately, is the Fed dropping its standards regarding the trucks its willing to lease on? Now first let me say that it is now two years since we left the Fed for greener pastures. During the five years we were leased on to the Fed...

In another thread on EO, Jamimjim states "Some of you claim to be business people, professionals, and a number of names" and then proceeds to post quotes by myself and others to make his point. Let Jamimjim be the catalyst for the following, as I originally had not planned to post this. Maybe...

Because our carrier has been keeping us quite busy since the beginning of the year, we've not paid attention to the world news in the past few days. No time to watch the tube! But the events of today's loads have given us good cause to fire up the satilite and watch the news! We sit here at...

For a few days I was beginning to believe that our Kenworth had Toyota parts instead of Paccar in it. Especially when it started acting like a "run away Toyota!" Now I'm sure some will think this thread needs to be in truck talk, and thats fine if the moderators want to move it. I just want...

In my almost thirty years out here on the road hauling freight in one capacity or another, I've never had finer customers to serve than now. That is the men and women in the aviation industry. The freight we haul typically is bound for a jet waiting on a repair part so it can get airbound...

Saturday (2/6/10) mid-morning we pulled into the Vicksburg, MS rest area on I-20. This was to be a ten minute (or less) stop to use the rest room, update my log book, and continue on our way. No sooner than I had parked the truck in a legal truck parking space and stepped to the rear to use our...