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I was talking to a Panther driver and he was telling me about his mew box. The cool thing was it had a switch on the in the box that made rollers pop up in the floor and you can easily roll freight around in the box. Then you just flip the switch and the rollers go back down so you can secure...

I get bored easy, do you? What do you do when you get bored in the truck? I started working on something that might very well turn into a second business. I formulated, if you want to call it that, a recipe for a bar-b-q dry rub. I'm not trying to advertise here, and before anyone starts saying...

What I'm trying to figure out is why so many people lease onto a comapny and depend on that one company to get loads. Instead with my on authority I can call as many people as I want and/or need to let them know I'm empty and ready to haul their freight out of a certain area? I understand some...

With the clowns in Congress ( on both sides) and the ring leader in the oval office making our counrty into a 50 ring circus how long will it take for some of the rings to decide to leave? I think it's going to happen and a few states are going to leave the union. I'm about ready to start...

Today I was sitting at a truckstop in New Mexico getting ready to go in and eat my lunch when a guy pulls out of his parking spot beside me and clips my driver's side front fender. He bent it all to heck. Then when he realized he hit me he decided to high tail it out of there even though I was...

I bought me a truck in Jan. and have been running hard ever since. I bought my grandpaw's last truck actually. It's a '97 Pete 379 extended hood with a 60" sleeper. I just had a new motor and transmission put in that I got off of a truck that had about 30k miles on it and got rolled. The motor...

I was watching Fox News today and they were speaking of how things have gotten even worse in Mexico recently along the lines of the Drug War. What troubles me about this is the fact that most of this activity occurs on the border, near the border, or it is cross border activity. My one question...

If you are in the Dallas, TX area this morning keep your eyes peeled for a balding white male in a tan Ford F-150 pick up. I just heard on Fox News at about 11:20 eastern time that the police were looking for this guy because he shot 2 truck drivers this morning. Chances are he isn't still out...

In my Public Speeking class I have to do a speech where I find a problem and possible solutions for that problem. The problem I have choosen is Hours of Service mainly the split sleeper provision. I have to have at least 6 sources and one of my sources can be an interview. I would like to...

When there was more heated debate about the illegal immigration problem, mainly with Mexico, I heard some in Washington saying the U.S. should do some things to improve their economy to make the people want to stay down their. I'm not big on big government, but isn't it funny that when(within...

I just wanted to post a friendly reminder to all the drivers both veteran and newbies alike. Whatever you do, don't forget your following distance. You have to keep it. Yesterday we had a fatality accident here in town that could have had a little better outcome had someone kept there following...

Does anyone know of a natural remedy for a head cold? I can't take the over the counter stuff because it make me hallucinate. We discovered this a little over 2 years ago when I took some o.t.c. cold medicine and saw an Iranian submarine in the river behind my home. After a brief stay in the...

This is a excerpt from a book I reading by Louis L'Amour titled "Last of the Breed". It says "The terrorist lives for terror, not for the change he tells himself he wants. He masks his desire to kill and destroy behind the curtain of a cause. It is destruction he wants, not creation." I...

I've been thinking. I am very glad of the way the House voted. It just goes to show you that if we all make those calls and get others to call that some of the Reps. will listen. I would like to encourage one thing though. Look at the sticky on the topic. There you can find a link that will show...

She was born today at 10:13 Central time. She's 8lbs. 1oz. and 20 1/2" long. I'll be up there seeing her in about 4 hours. I can't wait. I'll try to get some pictures to post. I'm so happy. I haven't been so happy since my little brother in law was born.

I have done some research and I think I'm on to something here. I think our left winged friend is half human and half el chupacabra. It fits perfectly. The root word of el chupacabra is chupar which in Spanish means "to suck". Now we are getting somewhere with a Michael Moore connection. The...

If you have ever said this congrats you are 12 beers short of a six pack. If the war was really about oil why would we be paying more for it now than before the war started? Why wouldn't we be bombing the he!! out of everything over there, setting up oil wells and pipelines, and calling it "New...

Yesterday one of my professors set up a scenario were someone was an O/O, although he called them a truck driver that owns their own truck. I thought it was totally wrong and I called him on it. Here is the scenario. Leased to J.B. Hunt Transportation Pay= 3.00 per mile Miles per Year=...

I need some advice. In December my wife and I will have been married for three years. I know that doesn't seem like much for some, but we have been through a lot in the past 3 year. More than I have space to get into here. It seems that almost everything that could have happened has happened...

If someone wanted to start a courier service would they need a DOT authority? I've been looking at the FMCSA website and I can't find anything on the subject. I would most likely be using my Dodge Dakota Sport which is no where near heavy enough to be considered a Commercial Vehicle. Maybe...