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RE: Is there a >I take you don’t have much of a hankering for dispatchers. Who would? I think we all have had examples of the clash that exist between those who merely talk about the load and those who actually move it. My favorite dispatchers are the night shift rookies who send messages at...

Several times recently I've been laid over in various locations and seen E units be last in and first out. They don't seem to sit idle for too long.

>I believe if yod did a study of 100 new drivers who enter >enter the trade this year, you'll find that well over half >of them will be out of the business five years later. I also >belive the same holds true for most other professions. If >you know of a place where guaranteed success and...

RE%253A FEDEX CC New Dispatch Crap *sigh*

>One case on EO we had a guy loosing a lot of oil in his engine, >but couldn't figure out where it was going. No visible >smoke or external leaks, but loosing quarts by the hour. It >was spraying into the fuel injector returns, and ending up >in the fuel tanks due to bad injector seals...

>They won!t give that info out over the phone so you must use the VRU. The one piece of information missing from the VRU options is where you are in the dispatch order. The c-link status info is updated every 3 hours. You could arrive at 1pm for layover with 2 other trucks showing as checked...

>HI, YOU SAID THAT EVANSVILLE ISN'T A LARGE ENOUGH AREA TO >PRODUCE ALOT OF HOT- FREIGHT. At that particular time, that was the situation. Too many trucks in the area, not enough moving to get anybody out. This was not just speculation based on the looks of the place. The judgement call I...

I encountered a situation I thought I'd pass along at Toyota in Evansville, Indiana. I picked up a load bound for there last Friday night, due for delivery at 6:30 local time Monday morning. I arrived and parked at a local Flying J Sunday night. Noticed several other expedite rigs of various...

>Absolute perfect legal interpretation from someone who has >never been through a DOT inspection before, and has not >delivered a load from a truck yet as far as anyone on EO >knows. Hmmm, makes me wonder?? >-Weave- One has to observe that this person has not encountered all the infinite...

> They took all their savings and bought this van, (it was nice) to >pursue their dream and get >paid doing it. She told me some recruiter gave them false >hopes, She went on, and on, and on. Lets just say when I >left her, I was fit to be tied. That recruiter is a lucky >guy, Who ever he...

>I really do have to disagree with the idea you and RichM >seem to share; that older or semi-retired folks are taking >work away from good hard-working folks who need it. > First, that concept could also be easily applied to >anyone out there working that gets the load you wish you had...

>Too often recruiters will build up their fleets with Semi Retired >folks that only take the easy >daytime runs that have no hassle. They then refuse the >middle of the night offers, Soooo true. The owners of my truck purchased a B unit last August. They kept the driver on who was with the...

I've talked to a few Sprinter owners. The claimed mileage at 22-24 mpg seems to hold up pretty well with what these guys tell me. One who is leased to Tri-State told me he had a 2700 lb skid for his heaviest load at that time. He says there was no difference in the way the van drove...

E track is a metal rail with slots spaced about 1 1/2 inches apart. The slots are used to lock ends of cargo straps into. A typical 1 ton van will have 2 e tracks running full length on the floor of the cargo area and 1 rail attached to each sidewall of the box area. Normally 4 cargo straps...

>Weren't they profiled on Americas most wanted You meaning FedEx ??

^bump^ C'mon guys.... any of you who have to comply on paper regardless of what reality is have an opinion about this...

What do you guys think? http://www.sierratimes.com/03/03/27/critic.htm Excerpts below: "Most drivers are only paid while driving, not for time spent cleaning the trailers or other required chores. That hour that you spent trying to get five miles through the traffic jam this morning? The truck...

Prices are changing quick. Passing through Spiceland, IN I-70, Flying J diesel on 3/30 was $1.31. Two days earlier it had been $1.29. !!??

>not a lot of deadhead(about 10-15%). Looking back over the last 5 trips, 1322 paid miles - 541 deadhead miles. 40.9 % deadhead. These miles were not empty trips home, but were the actual distances driven to layover locations or the mileage to the first layover choice in instances where I...

I've recently been running a B unit for a couple who own 4 trucks. Runs have been slow coming and not very good ones either. Yesterday was typical. 88 mile deadhead to pick up - 150 paid mile trip. That call at 4 pm on Wed was my first run offer all week. Layover options are just plain goofy...