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I believe there is a stipulation for hours away from home the beginning and ending days of a trip . Posters may be misinterpreting this with miles away .

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Leaving the window open a crack can be dangerous if there are other vehicles idling nearby .

The cube van that is mentioned in this thread is a former Penske rental unit . I'm sure most DOT officers will recognize it for what it is and having a 10,000 lb. GVWR . I'm sure he doesn't plan on regularly filling the floor space and is just considering that space as offering more load...

Some excellent points were made in Turtle's post . Freight will pick up sooner on the rail because carriers are moving more and more to intermodal . Here's another option to consider in a field there is not a surplus of workers . More and more freight will also be moving by barge on inland...

Yes , and there are other differences . Canada requires a 36 hour restart and copies of logs for the past 14 days . The reason for that is a 24 hour break is required every 14 days . A written DVIR which can be either pre or pst trip must be done within the past 24 hours . A posttrip DVIR you...

Ah , weathermen . They are a breed of their own . YouTube - Weatherman verses ****roach! I think that's what he said , all right "***** roach " LOL

I should have posted this before the event . It's an annual event though . I've never seen so many 40 Fords gathered in one place . Here's my favorite although it's a '39 . David Pearson was the Grand Marshall and I got him to autograph 2 copies of his book "21 Forever" for me . As well as...

Honoring the contract isn't that simple . Many carriers will terminate for the smallest incident . Have any type of accident and you're gone . Can you foresee no disabling injuries or prolonged illness ? Don't look for sympathy . The forums I suggested finding are filled with horror stories of...

Don't get too elaborate with the sleeper since you don't have to log . You will have to log if you ever haul hazmat but few CV's do . If you don't have the endorsement you won't be asked to anyway .

A .- No cost training* B- No "we own you" mentality C- No seriously-wtf?! type deliveries D- Not gone for a week at a time. A couple of days away from home is ok, I'm just not a nomad lol. E.- Decent, respectable pay. I don't want to feel like I'm back working for the big D delivering pizza...

You need to clean your reading glasses . He weighed the van "Yes I had it weighed with me and full gas tank at 7360lb, extra 140 for my stuff and I still have 2500lb for payload. " . So much for your theory "Plus, the truck you have is built on a light duty 3500 chassis. Probably 60-70% of the...

Is that a former Penske single axle cube van ? Those are the cube vans mostly made with a 10,000 lb. GVWR . You should have done your homework BEFORE you bought the van .

Antwolf says it right here . "All this assumes the driver is also the owner of the van and is not splitting revenue with someone else. Or another way to look at it is 32 cents a mile to the driver. If you average 95 cents a mile including FSC, then if 32 cents goes to the driver, roughly 32...

I've been driving a Mack Vision tractor for 3 years . They are a good , comfortable OTR truck but the big problem is poor service at dealerships . The truck has been returned to the dealerships in KY , IN , OH , and ON because they didn't get it right the first (sometimes second or third ) time...

A 1099 is gross income and tells the banks nothing . They give loans according to your net and amounted reported as taxable income . I made the mistake of taking a "bonus " deduction the year I bought a new truck .It reduced my taxable income considerably that year but greatly reduced how much...

Spend some time reading these threads . You don't want to buy a truck to start . The smart thing to do starting out is drive for a fleet owner . Learn on his dime .

Pay your bills , yes but I don't know about eating . 60% of what many cargo van owners get isn't much more than what a company driver gets . Then you pay fuel out of that . Say you get 15 mpg and you go 150 miles . You use 10 gallons . At $3 a gallon you're spending $.20 a mile on fuel putting...

Not sit more than 24 hours in a week ? Don't waste a trip to Ohio . It's not unusual for cargo vans to sit 2 or 3 days to wait for a load . You don't understand the way expediting works . The carriers must have vans available for immediate pickup at the shipper . To have vans always available...