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Anyone ever seen the video of what happens in Europe when their drivers strike? It shuts everything down, they just stop wherever they are if they are in an intersection they just block it up etc...every street is impassable until someone says...Um....I cant get through!...etc. I would think...

There was a recent truck convoy to protest this very thing against the port of Miami I think I saw the number in excess of 500 trucks. The port/steamship lines charge 115 dollars fuel surcharge per container that the driver/owners never get, hence the reason for the protest....see OOIDAs web...

Hi, There arent many good truck driving jobs in Florida, I live in Jacksonville Fl. When I moved here last year I almost fell over from seeing how low the wages are to drive tractor trailers locally 9.00 -12.00 hr. You can go to an LTL carrier like Averitt express/ Estes/Saia and make if your...

Something to remember about getting freight from Florida North. There are very few manufacturing companies in the state as it is and the ones (78%) that do manufacture goods to be shipped employ less than 10 people each ( thats per an article recently with the Jax Biz Journal) There are 4...

I love this site mainly because its so comical. I get the magazine delivered to my house "Expediter something" which my wife says....hey that fictional reading has arrived. A few months back we kicked around the idea of buying another truck or actually myself buying a truck and trying...

I don't know what part of the country you live in but if you live near a major port you might want to try pulling containers (overseas cans) Imports to this country from abroad are supposed to quadruple over the next 2 years and Asian company Mansuoi just signed a 300 million dollar contract...

Anyone seen this article yet? GM wants to buy over 1 billion dollars worth of auto parts from India, says it currently buys 120 million worth per yr and wants to up its ante? do you think this will effect the business? duke.

Downtown Miami safe areas: 195 off of I 95 to the beaches which is exit 4 1st exit off of that and second exit ( Biscayne Blvd) have a very heavy FSP and local police presence due to Braham motorcars (Aston Martin/Rolls/ Bentley/BMW...which takes up 5 city blocks. There is a Denny's there at...

Most Mining operations use Nitrogen in their off road equipment tires, especially where its hot, like Florida etc. All of the Chaulk mining operations in Georgia use Nitrogen in their equipment tires. I know one thing, at 10 grand a tire for some of that equipment...you want them to last...

My wife and I both have Nextels and I would certainly be careful if you are signing a new Nextel contract. Alot of Nextel towers have been either removed or "powered down" to accomodate sprint customers and as mentioned in a previous post the "direct connect" wont be available in 2006...

I went up there to run for an owner who was hiding from someone that day, I never did get to see him so he sent a dispatcher outside to see me and told me this is as good as its going to get today. I took my 5 grand ( supposedly for a down payment on a new truck) and got out of dodge...( er I...

Those guys that are knocking shorts must not have had to unload a 22,000 lb household goods shipment in Belle Glades Florida in summer or do a 32 stop peddle run in 8 hours for companies where if you have time to stop and use the bathroom your already late to the next stop. Also you dont want...

Bring an Umbrella in case you stop in Longwood canyon for falling rocks, if you are driving during the day check out the mountain goats they are usually standing in the cliffs near the road. There is lots to see including the first railway tunnels and trailing piles of old mines etc. Enjoy...

Usually I break out the check book, they will always ask whats that? I will say its a check so I can have a record for a tax deduction..always results in a finger....Hey! I'm number 1 again! yay~!

Hard Hat, safety glasses, fire suit, steel toed boots with the titanium instep covers.. ..dont forget the grounding strap for the shoes, kevlar gloves, gel filled knee and elbow pads, cattle prod, spare batteries for that and hearing aid. light sticks, flashlight, belt for the ABC...

If you want to make really good money and be home most of the time try an LTL carrier like Roadway/Yellow, ABF (union carriers) their pay rate I think right now is about 22 bucks an hour...of course starting out its 16.50 but anything after 8 is time and a half, after the 5th day ( called 6th...

Until someone invents that "transporter" type device from Star-Trek for all your get it there in 2 seconds freight needs. dukesadog

I would report the owner to the SID division of the IRS as well as what I talked about earlier, It used to be that if you didnt get paid at all for a run it was 15% of whatever the face value of the check was per day for each day past the pay period ending was. As far as what you are owed as...

US department of labor can help if you can show you made less than minimum wage/hr.. through hours worked on your logs if you have copies..if he didnt get any money out of it at all they will look into it unless he took advances on his comdata card adding up to minimum wage. There is a special...

As far as P-2 not telling the O/O of the deal, I'm sure it was written into the contract that way to ward off any other investment companies from taking over the deal. If you want to buy something and its a great deal the last thing you want is 20 other people knowing about it. I'm sure P-2s...