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Yea the longer it sits, the harder it will become to sell. I'd actually recommend doing a bit of everything. Post some ads looking for a driver and if you find a good one, then spend the money to fix it. At the same time, post some ads to sell it. Better to be proactive than sit there and...

Welcome aboard. It looks like you've been researching this site for 4 years. Good luck.

Or grammar tangents :p

You make some excellent points dynamite. I usually stand outside the doors and watch through the crack or the odd time from the driver seat. When I own my own van, I will definitely now be proactive and let all forklift drivers know I own the van and it's my baby.

I have only ever worn my once but for the potential of losing a $1000 load, I'll keep them in the van. More importantly, you shouldn't be putting yourself in that type of risk where pallets can fallon your feet imo. But maybe I'm just a noob but I don't go in those factory lanes and I stay...

I work for a small company and I wish I was told what to bring. I left my hard hat, glasses and steel toe boots in my car trunk, my 2nd run was at a yard that required all 3. I bought some boots at wal mart and returned them after the drop. I would bring all 4 inc vest.

Carrier B is the unnamed best expediting company?

400k miles They do regular oil changes but they have let a lot of minor things slide, it's obvious it's a company van. My pre trip sheet has a full paragraph of minor compliance issues like "part of plastic mirror broken", "licence plate holder light cracked", "transmission light on" I...

Just an idea, you might want to draw up a blank schedule and break it into 2 hr timeblocks and let people volunteer for a timeslot. If someone can only do 1 hr, then they can specify that when volunteering. But for scheduling purposes, this might be easiest to coordinate publicly. People...

Its an 07. There are like 2 engine lights on all the time that are written up on my pre trip inspection sheet. I can't remember off hand, what they are. But thx regardless, if I can narrow it down to 2 things for maintenance, that'll be a big help for them.

I opened this for like the 3rd time and I just realized that I think I have a related problem with the company sprinter I have been driving. Let me explain my situation and tell me if its the same. When I was given the van, I was told that they think the floor matt moves and gets stuck and...

In this case I had fueled uo but it was up front in the auto diesel section. The lady had no clue if I fueled up or not, I walked to the back islands and asked for a cash advance and there was no fee. I don't even have a Petro points card, I only stopped there cuz it was the only place open...

cherri, I don't disagree with you, I just wanted to give him a fair warning so I don't come across as so pompous as to me it appears he hasn't researched as much as he should at this point. ps I remember waking up at 3 am because I didn't want my parents to know I got in trouble and did my...

Also, I can't stress how valuable this website it, but imo all the value is in the old threads. I find the search function will net you way more results than asking. This is a bit of a close nit community and they tend to go off on joke tangents in threads. But if you take the time to read...

Corey, Welcome to the forum. I think you need to do considerable more research before you consider leasing a van. From your original post, it sounds like you have a rosier impression of the industry than reality. The reality is the market is saturated but that doesn't mean you can't make...

I've only stopped at 1 Petro before, I ended up going back to the fuel Islands, they didn't charge me a cash advance fee for <$100. Is this standard for Petro's or did I fluke out?

I guess I'll go read the rest of the thread now for lols

There is only one expediting company in the whole wide world that treats it's contractors properly? What makes that company better than the company that I am working for that you never heard of? Why don't you just make a thread called I found an awesome company to work for but I don't want...

Unfortunate that bad things that happen to good people. I am only new here but Jack helped me with some of my research and fact finding via PM so I am grateful. My thoughts and prayers to both of you.

Bill, I think your going to need to sit down before you read the rest of my post. Collecting foodstamps doesn't mean you have to agree to be destitue first. In my state, I went on FS last winter cuz things were slow. But guess what, when I got a 2 week job through a temp agency, they didn't...