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When the subject of Lease/Purchasing a truck from a fleet owner comes up on this forum its usually full of horror stories about how the deals went bad.How often have you seen a positve post about this subject.Furthermore,why would anyone want to give someone else part of their hard earned money...

I was recently asked this question: Does a company that one is leased to have the right to dictate which clinic a driver must go to when selected for a random? The example that was used; the driver is sitting at Jubitz in Portland,OR. Jubitz has a clinic certified by the governing agencies...

New drivers beware, you may be penalized just for being a "New Driver". Yep,thats right! Why not give your new boss a few hundred dollars of your wages per month to drive their truck. Never mind the revenue they're going to make on the freight you haul in their truck. Recently a driver told me...

Anybody out there had any experiance owning or driving A Sterling 9500 Reefer (or dry unit) built by Knoxville Freightliner? We are seriously looking to purchase a new 2006 from them. We've looked at them but were not able to drive that day. Unit is do-able for our needs and affordable...

Ok folks,please help educate me here. Been expediting for just over three years now, and for the most part loving it. We own a DR- unit and prefer running the temp-controlled freight. No ammo or explosives for us thankyou, but we do our share of military bases. Until recently our base visits...

This post may be more appropriate placed in the Newbies section but I feel we all need to read this one. Seasoned drivers have also made this mistake in the past. When a driver accepts and signs for a load at the shipper or even in a transfer of trailers (if you're an e-unit) you, the driver...

For those of you that either read or posted your excellent advice on the thread "owner lease purchase" I'm happy to say the truck which was the center of the topic has been bought by a deserving couple we know. They plan to drive it themselves. Our congrats go out to them and we wish then much...

What I hope to get out of this post is some insight as to why this is so commonplace amoungst expediters. We're checking in at the guardshack of a "high security" customer when another driver (wearing the same company logo) ask, "where is your load going?" Just because your shirt matches mine...

How many of you "D" units have a Maxon liftgate, you know the one with the deck extension on the back of the box. How many times have you dumped a customer's product trying to get your pallet jack over that supid lip between the box floor and the deck surface ( about 3/4"-1' difference).Those...

Have you had a problem with this? We have a 22' reefer box. Our evaporator measures 32" back from the bulkhead and 18" down from the ceiling.Then because we carry the required WG equipment we have 3 shelves 24" wide (width dictated by our tripod dolly,etc) across the front of the box. Fine so...

We need to hear from other expediters that have done what we are considering doing. As we search for a future replacement of our current DR unit we are seriously thinking of keeping our Kidron Ultra reefer box,Thermoking UTS, and Maxon liftgate and transfer them onto a new Cab. We've seen some...

Well its Saturday night and here we sit bored to death in Bordentown [Boredom Town],NJ.When this story popped into my brain I just had to share it and hope you'll get a laugh out of it! A while back we were in the San Diego area and decided to stop out at DeAnza Springs Resort in Jacumba,Ca for...

When we first decided to get into expediting three years ago we wanted to try it out first in someone elses truck before we invested in our own. We were given a few names of fleet owners in our area by the recruiter to contact.We narrowed it down to one that seemed to be a christian based...

Back when we started Expediting some freinds said they were going to put in a good word for us and get us on the Art Team. We really didn't want to be, but they wouldn't listen. Next thing you know, we're on the Art Team. It didn't take long to realize they weren't bad paying loads. Just pick up...

We delivered once to the San Onofre Nuclear Plant on a Saturday. Our next load was'nt picking up until the following Monday about 60 miles away. We really did'nt want to sit at the TA in Ontario,Ca so we seached for a motel around the plant area. There were'nt any available.Since I had never...

For the more adventurist free spirits amoungst us have I got the layover place for you. Next time you find yourself stressed out and laid over in the San Diego,Ca area try this: Head on out to Jacumba,Ca on I-8 to the Jacumba exit. Go west on Carrizo Gorge Rd (gravel). Look for gate to Deanza...