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You will need commercial insurance (CIS is highly recommended on this site). 90 is a fair enough rate to get started imo considering you aren't investing any capital. However, there is a tonne of info on this site. It's not an easy job or lifestyle to get use to. But if you don't have a good...

Reading the Vans 101 is cancelled thread, I got a good chuckle. Being a bit of a noob around here, I've found that most of you try and discourage the other noobs, I've seen come to the site and scare them away with "the market is saturated", "you can't make money" and just generally joking...

wat? Chevy > Ford ainec

Laredo here too, just emailed dispatch and asked him if it would be better if I moved to Dallas or something and he said it's pretty togh there too. He told me to give it 2-3 more hours but I'm sure I'll deadhead out tonight before they pay for another room.

You are right, it does nothing for the american worker but neither does the $25 inverter in your van/ truck that lets you power your laptop / fridge or chinese made rice steamer. If someone can do something for pennies, do you want to pay 20 times as much for it to be american made? Lets...

There are more important things than just revenue, like profits. It would be equally as ludacris to ban the efficient use of 53' vans and demand all cargo be delivered on straight trucks and cargo vans to increase the revenue, jobs and taxes created in one industry. As long as we compete in...

The reality is those brokerage offices in Laredo are inefficient and unnecessar. They only serve as beauracracy and drive up costs. Sorry but I am phone posting so I can only respond to a small section at a time.

My point was that if Mexicans are allowed to drive freight, they will certainly do it for considerably less than what an American would. So my ooint was to hire one of them and let them run for a peanuts and make money off their back. Assuming they could do intrastate.

Sitting here in Laredo, I was thinking about this last night. Why pay some coyote hundred or even thousands to try sneak you in through some river / bushes. Why not just fly in legally to NYC with a return ticket for probsbly $300 and just not take the return flight. Then get a new I'd...

When I talked to my boss, I told him one of the options I was looking at was an 04 and he said that they had suspension issues back then, which were resolved in later years. Does anyone know anything about that? He said it caused them to be more susceptible to being tioped over.

It didn't move in the 4 hrs I was there. I am not propely set up in this van so I need to do what I can to escape the elements. It made a huge difference, I could tell it was a few degrees cooler there than when I was driving, when I was driving all day,it didn't seem like my a/c was making an...

If a mexican is willing to work for 20 cents a mile, why fight him? Adapt, get out of the driver seat and let him run for you. Buy another used van and hire another willing Mexican who will undercut the next guy and work for 15c, Meanwhile you are making probably 20-30c doing nothing but...

I had a drop last Monday in Chicago, got an immediate pickup to go to Des Moines, Ia, dropped Monday night, sat till Wednesday around supper and decided to head towards Chicago and on myway to Chicago got a load for Thursday pickup.

I swear some of you guys either [a] try to hard to be funny [b] are scared to think outside the box [c] are too cheap to spend $1 on fuel to explore 3-4 miles past the truck parking lot [d] All of the above Yea I ended up finding some good shade in the Subway parking lot, had a good...

Can someone recommend a good shady spot to parrk a Sprinter in Laredo? My first time here, should be unloaded in 2 hrs.

This is basically what I was getting at with my post. Its obvious that both parties have moved on, I was just pointing out from a technical stand point, it was weird and silly.

I guess I should have put a few smiley faces in my post.

Noob Tip / Reminder Don't go to the downtown branch if your in a city. I did today in Des Moines, Ia and was quickly reminded of the cost of parking downtown. Luckily the north branch wasn't far and has free parking.

I was exaggerating when I said world. I've never been to Mexico, Puerto Rico or any of the parts of the world that would obviously have bad roads.