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I guess that shot down my "conspiracy" theory. haha If I were not in the truck and they called they would only have told me the location and fuel surcharge. Apparently hey have plenty time to screw over everyone. Why try to screw a cargo van out of 5 cents when they can screw a straight...

They gave us the login name and password to use during orientation so you wouldn't have to pay to use the site. You can easily look for LTL loads posted within any range of a city or zip code. HOWEVER, the only ones I found for a van (I can't haul flatbed, gooseneck refrer freight, etc)...

Mistakes out the Yazoo is the ordinary... not the exception. Here are some examples I've dealt with the past month. Promised $150 fuel bonus to get me to take the load. Then it was changed to $38. I got that back (I think) after a lot of time and effort. They knew I wouldn't have taken...

Good questions.... here are the answers. It's 600 miles from El Paso to anywhere there is a possibility of freight... like Lorado, Dallas, or California. With 3 avg loads a day I thought it was better to stay put since there were times I was the only truck there. They didn't want to put...

What I like about Panther is they gave me a job. I had applied to dozens of other expedite companies / trucking companies and even though I had driven commercially for many years, since my experience wasn't current, I only heard back from Panther. Now it seems that everyone wants me to come...

I'm getting so frustrated with this 14 hour rule. If your driving time and 14 hr clock gets in sync, even though you have plenty driving time to make the delivery, it can't be made on time if you stop to rest for a couple hours. Before the 2007 ruling you could put the 14 hr clock on hold if...

I have been considering getting a co driver also. I have had to pass on so many loads because they were too long and they didn't want to have to set up a swap. I was going to offer 50 cents per mile that they drive and automatically give them half the loaded miles. They could make over...

Let me know if you figure it out. I just spent 8 days sitting waiting in El Paso. I got about 3 loads in the last 3 weeks. Going to have some terrible paychecks. I don't know how much longer I can pay the company $160 a week and sit and wait in the hot sun the entire week and not get a load.

That is exactly right. I don't think Panther recognizes that. They act to me like I only have to pay for fuel while loaded. You can do it easier using the free Google spreadsheet online and share your numbers with anyone you want. If you want to check mine out at pantherdrivers dot com...

Well, like they say, the devil is in the details. Probably the reason so many truckers go out of business. They keep taking cheap loads and eventually the truck depreciation and maintenance catches up with them. The way I look at it, if I haul freight for only enough profit to buy food...

I guess I don't understand why they expect us to pay for fuel to haul their customer's freight. I've paid over $1,000 for fuel this month. My spreadsheet says I'm not making $ 1.20 per mile as my contract says. ...I'm making about $1 per mile. . In my opinion that is like hiring you to...

I wish I could say that. I only had 2 loads the last 13 days. At this rate I'll have only 4 loads a month. I had 3 offers the last 5 days and they were all canceled, usually because a solo driver couldn't make the delivery within 11 hrs. I had an offer today with low fuel surcharge and...

It's deceptive since you have to drive to the location to get the load. You are no longer making $1.20 per mile. You are making less than $ 1 per mile. Also, they sent a message over qualcomm saying they calculate fuel mileage for the fixed rate at 8 mpg. The current average is about 54.60...

They can't make much profit but most owners have drivers that take the loads and pay no attention to the fuel surcharge since it's not part of their pay.

Let me weigh in since I finally got access to post here. I've only been with Panther 3 months so perhaps I'm misguided when I look at it this way... It seems to me the whole concept of "boards" and positions is a system that applies to traditional trucking where freight goes through hubs and...

Perhaps I'm a poor writer. I was pointing out that when a company tells prospective owner/operators their total average revenue is $70,000 ....the driver had better NOT think they were being told they would be taking home that kind of money... the Devil is in the details.. from that $70,000 the...

No, I owend a moving company for 6 years but I only had a freight load about once a month and that was usually between ships and trucking terminals. I sold my airplane a while back and was considering purchasing a truck and getting back into driving. I'm 56 and construction work is more...

Ok... I don't know what I'm talking about. I was told that an Econoline 350 cargo van was a class C vehicle . Apparently it is not. Since the E350 only has about 8 ft of cargo space and can carry ony 3,000 lbs it would be class A. This page finally cleared it up for me: Expedited Freight...

The number of hours you work has nothing to do with the choice of C or D truck. You work almost the same number of hours in either truck... except the larger truck probably takes a little longer to get from point A to B and probably takes longer to load and unload. But the higher freight rates...