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Turtle, you're a smart and educated guy. But you're wrong. The carrier reserves the right to use both incentives and deterrence to cover freight. Trust me, simply put forced dispatch means that you are given the RIGHT of refusal. It does not mean the company cannot penalize you for refusing a...

Truce :) ...and all was well.

Honesty. That's all I ask for really. Everything else is incidental. If a carrier is honest with me and understands that I also am trying to run a business then I am happy. If I'm not making money with a carrier I always have other options. Good topic. Wish I could give some pos rep.

Again your negativity is enlightening. "Sub par loads". No, you do not get put on refusal for "sub par loads" You, quite frankly, do not know what you're talking about. Okay vanman, we understand how you feel. Move on.

You do not quite understand what you are talking about. Do you know what the definition of forced dispatch is? Nobody seems to. Forced dispatch means that you rcompany offers you a load. You take it or you're fired. Tri State offers me a load and I have the option to turn it down or accept it...

Isolationism isn't the answer to the country's problems. "Buy American" is an antiquated idea in this day and age because we live in a global economy. In the end that will be a good thing for all of us. Those of us in trucks aren't dependent only on what is produced in the U.S. The bottom...

Another great post by TeamCaffee. It's true, every carrier has it's advantages as well as disadvantages. Each one of them are doing their best to provide freight for their operators. If they can't do that then they don't make money. Not one of them is out to wrong any of us, but they may have...

I work for TS and they also let me broker my own freight when I can find it, if it is out of their normal truck lanes. They normally take 15% but there have been times that they have taken 0% to get me out of an especially bad area. I guess this benefits them as well because then they don't have...

Maybe I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack. What's the relevance of this thread? Panther charges it's van drivers to display their signs? Confused

Or maybe this will help spur a new round of industrial output as a modified product is presented to the consuming public. We can Monday morning quarterback all day, but there is the same chance that this could work (simple economics, industry and production are cyclical and the current cycle has...

Good luck convincing these guys that. If you're not firmly Republican then you're an OMG TEH LIBERALZ! Doesn't make them bad people, but it just means that they have chosen a side and shall staunchly never budge. I know many Democrats that are the same way. In their eyes Bush was evil incarnate...

Are you serious? You can be critical of the president without using racist slurs. Porch monkey? Come on now, you can't be serious. It's not racist because he's being critical of the president. It's racist because he called the president a porch monkey.

Give me a break. And congrats on wanting America to fail you patriotic American, you.

You can't say that there was no intent for using a known racial epithet. Your problem is that he's both black (ding ding) and a Democrat. If only he were gay he'd have the market cornered on your hate, huh? But pastor Dave is right, the topic at hand is Caterpillar. Thank you, sir...

Wow. I'm quoting this for the ignorant racism. I hope that the mods don't allow this type of behavior on the boards. I can deal with the political crap, but this is indefensible. Obama has been President for six days. We have to wait to see how his policies work. They can't be much worse than...

I wonder what this means for us. I've hauled quite a bit of Cat freight since I've been in this business. Caterpillar says to cut 20,000 jobs By James B. Kelleher CHICAGO (Reuters) – Caterpillar Inc said on Monday that quarterly earnings fell more than 32 percent and warned of a tough year...

I have always gotten NLM loads from TS. The only difference is that for the past two years TS did not cut our pay just because it was a cheaper NLM load while all of the other carriers did. That's no insult to the other companies, but TS has done their best to pay us a decent rate. I don't...

Here's hoping for the best. He is our President for good or ill and if it is ill, the best thing about this country is that we get another choice in four years. :)

They told me 15%, but that's not every load. I was told they will take less especially if it means they don't have to pay out bonus miles to get you off a dead board.