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    Foreign Tires

    This is something that might help the cargo van drivers, a while back we had a E350 ford that had a shake in it from the day it was new and eventually it turned out to be the wheels that werent straight. So we ordered new wheels and put them on a balancer without tires, they were also bent and...
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    auto chain

    OOIDA just did an article maybe last month about which states dont like the auto chains, I want to say one of them was on the east coast like Vermont? or Taxachussets. They're just mad cause they want to see you guys slinging that iron up in Baker Oregon. Look at that driver!..Auto chains? Back...
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    SUPPORT CHINA ..JOIN A UNION

    Okay but what about US companies that have gone to China and set up shop like Yale locks, Rockwell Delta and others, The Fancy door sets that used to cost 700 bucks cost 900 now but they have a plant there where the workers live at the factory in a clean apt instead of a shack on stilts in the...
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    Question about issues

    15 minutes seems long to me First fire everyone in the senate and house since it always seems they are only in it for whats good for them and not their people or state and then find replacements.....or just dont vote for incumbents and or place limits on their existing tenior. Then maybe they...
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    FEMA deliveries

    There are currently 500 fema travel trailers sitting here in a fenced city yard in Jacksonville beach that have been sitting here for a month...there have been many articles about them as in there isnt anyone to haul them to location. There was also an article in the paper investigating US...
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    GM layoffs

    Okay, I know this is off track but I figured I would let the US folks in on this. My mom has been an RN for 30 yrs and now lives in Michigan, she bought a big house for retirement in Canada, specifically Prince Edward Island and while up there she cut her thumb doing yardwork. She went to the...
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    Grocries

    If you are looking for a fun place to shop when in Atlanta you might try Harry's Farmers market. Its a huge place like a super walmart full of fresh fruit with lots of free samples ( like 20 differnt types of pineapple). Plus alot of weird looking fruit/Veggies I never saw before. Breads,soups...
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    GM layoffs

    I wanted to respond to the comment regarding the asian auto makers. Last year when my GM brand car was in for 7,000.00 worth of warranty work which by the way was a 2003 model and already needed a new gas tank,brake lines,fuel lines, a rear axle replacement(stress cracks at the mold lines) and...
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    leather or cloth interior

    Leather is supposed to maintain a fairly constant temp, when we lived up north we got heated seats in our Camry and they felt great on a sore back . Now we are in Florida and have a Lexus with A/C in the seats but the leather is always cool when we get in the car....maybe that guy was talking...
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    Expediting in the West

    HK firearms has a huge plant in AZ. you might be able to lock down some loads into or out of that plant. dukesadog
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    Legal Issues

    Kaiser Aluminum? Isnt that the place where for the first 2 miles leaving the plant there are thousands of urine filled milk jugs lining both sides of the road? LMAO! dukesadog
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    I need another company in Ga.

    This is probably not what you are looking for but you can make great $$$ pulling overseas containers. If you lived near Savannah GA. Jacksonville Fl. Charlestown SC, you could drive 4 days a week and be home every night. ( you'll need a tractor, age un-important ours is a 79 CL9000 which cost...
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    UShip

    That truck on their ad is an old ryder rental truck dukesadog
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    What is our legal obligation

    Be very careful if you deliver any home-depot loads...they like to put stuff away or right on the floor when it gets delivered and they will sign your paperwork as short knowing they got the freight. I went to court a few years ago after I was told a skid of Honda Mowers 10 each didnt get to...
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    Why are people so negative

    Alot of people say my posts are kind of negative and if I offended anyone by writing them then come on down here and I'll buy lunch to make up for it. I am usually very direct. I had a problem with a carrier ( just for you Lawrence I wont say who) I was told everything was in order after...
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    UShip

    I sell alot of ebay stuff including cars etc. What I have noticed is the extreme difference in price for shipping the larger things...I just sold an old 1920s goodyear sign that UPS wanted 90.00 to ship to CA. The same package going via Fed-Ex ground was 29.00 and weighed 26 lbs...thats a huge...
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    What do you do?

    So telling them you have a container of Plutonium in your sleeper would be bad? right?? dukesadog
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    No Post--4 months

    I read alot of these posts and see what you expediter guys make. Anytime you want me to post a copy of an old settlment sheet 1995-00 from North American HVP let me know. I made 137k my first year there in the crane fleet...I was never home (356 days logged out in 98) and got divorced but I...
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    Commercial Activity Tax {CAT}

    There used to be a company in Georgia ( Underwood Trucking) that hauled exclusively for Lithonia Lighting and old man Underwood would give out gift cards if you didn't buy anything in the state of Lousianna. He also had a strict never buy fuel there ever rule. Seems he had some run in's over...
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    Governor

    What about Jeb Bush? he's not running for governer next year...you might get a deal on him Ha! dukesadog
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