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Hey Broompilot, do you have any problems getting the truck into the gym's you use on the road? We've thought about joining, but then pictured trying to slip the 40 footer thru the Beemers, Mercedes and rocketing minivans. We use resistamce bands, (stretch bands) mentioned earlier, you really...

These things seem to be running in spurts, I recently received 3 emails complete with bank logos, Yahoo! logos, and professional HTML asking me to click on a link to verify my bank card information. The 'phoney' indicators were the text usually doesn't have the plurals right, the wording is...

Now that's a hoot! Where did you find that? LLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Just changes color, and good point - no alarm, other than you seeing it. It's upside is it's touted as very sensitive, and within eyesight is aimed at giving you notice you've got a CO infiltration somewhere.

A woman goes into Wal-Mart to buy a rod and reel for her grandson's birthday She doesn't know which one to get so she just grabs one and goes over to the counter. A Wal-Mart associate is standing there wearing dark shades. She says, "Excuse me, sir. Can you tell me anything about this rod and...

We also approach D/H like this, we look more at $/all miles. We kinda find juggling D/H, fuel cost variables, tolls, and everything else like a toothpaste tube . . .you squeeze one part and it bulges out elsewhere. So we ask ourselves, "will we do this whole load, D/H, tolls, wx, layover and...

Wow, what a post. I admit, I'm a sucker. So much that i have to remind myself everytime some street person hits me up for money the lesson from an old pastor I had - offer to buy them food, but don't give them money. As someone else posted, they usually skee-daddle. Yet some of the slick ones...

Nobody's taken this cheap shot yet, so I gotta . . .how do you wake up dead? :7 juzzzz kidin! Thanks for the great info, we put a CO detector in our sleeper a month ago when we were getting tired 'too quick'. We thought 'just-in-case', and we wondered if the thing would work for reals. You've...

We use TruckMiles, it has a great feature where you click 'fuel' at the top of the screen and icons of the fuel and truck stops come up all over the screen. Makes fuel choices easy. We also use Mapquest, Yahoo, and Streets and Maps; and a couple of times TruckMiles found the address where all...

These are all great posts! I felt compeled to add our casket handle story. We loaded casket handles at an extruded aluminum plant - they are the same pieces to create storm doors and windows; and took them to a world famous casket company. The factory had open caskets swinging by on assembly...

Here's our 2 cents . . . First let me recommend a great book by Paul Pilzer, an economist. He writes about 'planned obsolescense' where things progress like 8 track - cassette - CD, and carbs to fuel injection to whatever. He mentions the 'plastics' future described in The Graduate to have...

We bought the little dustbuster type from a Flying J - my wife uses it religously. We tryed the small canister with the 'RoadPro' name on it, and it kept blowing the dust back out of the top - we returned it. Then we got the Coleman 12V canister. We needed a hose model to suck the air out of...

RE: Has a Dispatcher ever said anything rude to yo Thanks for the proactive question! Here's our two cents: Unfortunately we've had alot of 'harsh' phone calls from dispatchers; usually to cover loads that no one else would do. (Kinda like the latest E/O cartoon situation). One such incident...

Thanks for sharing that one! The folks that thought it up are sheer genius! Whatta hoot. .:7 :7 :7

Why did the chicken cross the road? Myriad viewpoints: GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road. The chicken is either for us or against us. JOHN KERRY: I voted to support the chicken crossing the...