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Down again today. 50 bucks a barrel. :D Keep going down baby!

How can a company tell you to license in another state? Better yet, How can you? If you live in florida is that not where you would have to be licensed? Also, if you get a SC license would you then be paying SC taxes insted of FL (No income take in FL right???) until you file your returns...

Not exactly. The tensioner is suppose to take the slack out of the seatbelt to help hold you in place. Sleeping in the bunk with it on the floor is not gonna do you any good. If your sleeping in the bunk and your co-driver is driving and has a wreck bad enough to deploy the bags by the time you...

The allison is the whole reason GM has not had a diesel van since they killed the 6.5. The allison is SO huge it would not fit with out a large tunnel in the floor or rasing the van floor. The GM transmission they are going to use has a smaller body and I think 1 fewer forward gears.

I've got a PC78Elite.. Good radio, you should be happy with it. You can get a echo mic if you want one I would think.

Oil went down more yesterday as well. 3% I think they said. down to roughly 53 bucks.. Hope it keeps going down :) Faster than Monica Lewinski would be nice :D

Your probably going to need a class A anyways. Remember, when pulling combinations it's the total GVW of all towed units and the power unit. Most class B license have a weight limit for the trailer towed. In Minnesota it is 10,000 pounds. Two horse or car trailers are going to be well over that...

The powerstroke, avid use of the newly installed cruise control (hey did you know all a stroker needs to have cruise is a new steering wheel with buttons???) and a superchips software update got this 6600 pound, 9 foot tall box on wheels in to the 20's :) Still wonder what that gm will cost. it...

I like the heater idea. But I remember not so fondly my 98 GMC 3500 cube van. Had a 6.5L Turbo diesel. Only held 8 quarts of oil, tiny little front spindles for a 12,000 lbs gross truck and man where they spendy. Also, the 4 speed hydromatic? I wonder if that is the same one they use behind the...

50K in a van seems kind of light to me. I've only been with panther for 3 weeks now, but last week I only ran 48 hours and still got in 1200 miles. I think 65-70K is more likely. Panther will gladly tell you of a few van drivers in the 95K range. I have had 1200-1700 loaded miles when out for a...

Beats me. and I am with Panther :) I just have a sprint phone. I know it can recive and send text messages. But when I put myself as "avaliable out of truck on pager" Dispatch just calls me with a load offer. Heck lately even if I am just marked "avaliable for load" they still call. As long as...

Not sure if this is a national trend but when I pulled in to KC on friday fuel was 2.39+ a gallon. When I pulled out I saw 2.15 to 2.09 a gallon. (of course I filled at 2.29 :/ ) I've also seen several signs where diesel was lower than gas. Perhaps things are starting to swing a bit like they...

RE: Safety Sups and "manditory sleep" in a cargo v Sounds like a good idea. I am 200 miles in to a 750 mile run right now. I'll probably run another 3 hours and try to get some sleep. See what happens. I have LOTS of time to deliver. I am not due in till 9:30 tomorrow morning. Just stopped to...

Earlier it was asked. why are people selling their trucks? lack of freight? High fuel costs? The awnser is both. And some just don't want to run anymore. The higher cost of fuel has cut in to profits as rates have not changed much. Can you still make money? you bet you can. But you have to know...

Hey.. Can we call it the Merkurfan Foundation?? By the way.. Those little studs Ford put in the floor to bolt the rear part of the seat to leave one heck of a mark! Perhaps we should also find us a lawyer to go after ford. I mean using a stud insted of a bolt through the floor? That is gross...

It's all up to you, however dual 70's might be a bit small. I know lots of guys running dual 100's or 125's.. Also sadly, a lot of drivers are looking to get out from under payments on a truck. Be sure you plan ahead to make sure you don't have that trouble. Also there are alot of used trucks...

Luckly I own both trucks out right. I bought them both off e-bay. Got the 94 Mack CS200 for 3700 and the 96 E350 Ext Diesel for 3000. The mack is just waiting on the state to process the title then it will find it's way back to ebay. I put a lot of work in to it but I'll bet it brings more than...

RE: Safety Sups and "manditory sleep" in a cargo v I understand everyones concerns. Of course, I don't want to get sued either. Just for the record. I do run for PII and a switch was never brought up by the safety department or dispatch.

RE: Safety Sups and "manditory sleep" in a cargo v It was not a message sent on the QC. The only message was to call them. No referance to what about. I did call contractor relations about this today since I was bored. I was told the run was given to me because I was the only van with in 300...

RE: Safety Sups and "manditory sleep" in a cargo v I woke up 2 hours after I stopped. Not be cause of a alarm clock or a noise. I rarely sleep more than 4 to 5 hours a night. I drove another 2 hours, I delivered drove to a place to get some sleep because my next pickup was a short distance away...