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    Just got the king pins replaced

    So what did it cost and did they do the pins and bushings or just the bushings? What kind of rig? "Questions, questions, questions, I have lots of questions" as quoted from 6 yr old grandson when he was talking to my older schizoid brother. Retidepxe
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    Panther Rewards Program

    Looks like someone is working on it, my status is all caught up except for my latest POD. Back up to Bronze level WOO HOO!
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    New Owner

    Blizzard said; "That's why I try and keep my gross income at around 40-50k per year. Because for me, anything over that, I have to pay taxes on!" I know this idea of not paying any taxes is appealing but....... sure, if you earn more you pay more taxes, but when all said and done, you end up...
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    Panther Rewards Program

    Anybody else missing pros on there rewards status page. It's been interesting watching, upto gold once, but now there are 4 out of my last 5 runs not listed, not even showing bronze anymore and we have been in service with 100% acceptance since the program began. I was told they are having...
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    What's going on?

    Might check with Southern Tire Mart in Houston on the Bridgestone 720's, or at least they can look in their system to see if any of there other stores have any. I bought my Mich steers at a Loves in PA but like you, I could not find the 'H' ratings and settled for less. good luck
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    Truck shaking?

    As noted could be a lot of things, but try the cheaper stuff first. My Mich steers w/ 160k miles started bouncing after hitting bumps and shaking the wheel. Turns out the weights were gone on one side and the Centramatics couldn't overcome it. Had them rotated side to side (directional tires...
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    Help with finding the wight truck

    A lot of used M2's for sale out there because Freightliner is the largest class 5-8 truck manufacturer in North America. Stands to reason when the 'FL' models went away, the M2 would be a popular choice. When we researched our first truck, and knowing we would run team, room and comfort...
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    mexican trucks in america are a fact.

    One issue I have is the Mexican fuel. Is it correct that the Mexican fuel is 1960's style dirty? If the EPA requires us to burn 25ppm ULSD, then why can the Mexican trucks come across and run our roads with their 665ppm sulphur diesel, belching out pollutants that the EPA deams cancer causing...
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    QualComm Text Messages

    Called VZ again today. Nice lady said the open case has been updated to state VZ is not receiving the text data to their server for relay to final destination, therefore, it is a Qualcomm issue of which QC has been notified. It is out of VZ's hands they say. Googled QC text messaging and...
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    QualComm Text Messages

    Mine quit working about a week to 10 days before Seville's lightning strike. Panther told me it appears only Verizon users are affected. It is my belief Verizon is slacking because they to blame it on a QC/Panther issue. When I called VZ customer srvce, the lady read me the report which...
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    Slooowwww!

    "when was the last time you found a load to florida." All about risks, and I'm glad I'm with Panther. Had a nice load from Grand Prairie, TX to Tampa a week ago, then a load right out to Atl. And BTW, as soon as we feel like i'm not getting the miles we used to, a sweet 1700 miler pops up...
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    Why am I overheating and losing coolant?

    If it's a head gasket, it likely is leaking internal at the combustion chamber. Pull the cap off the recovery jug (caution - place a heavy towel over cap when hot, don't burn yourself, leak may only show up when warmed up), run the engine at an idle and there likely will be a steady flow of air...
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    Panther Rewards Program

    As a followup, the 95% on time due to a truck breakdown a couple weeks ago is not an issue according to the rewards page. I believe it is only looking at on time service from day one of the program going forward as it shows i am at 100% service. My miles are good on the bronze but falling...
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    Its official as USA and Mexico sign pact to screw American truckers

    Article I read, believe in "trucker news" a month or so ago. A long time custom's broker in S. TX commented what he sees will happen; the Mexican owned trucking companies will be opening up shop in places like Laredo with nice upgraded equipment and put Mexican nationals in them to drive the US...
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    Panther Rewards Program

    The 99 percent "on-time" knocks me out since I had an injector pump failure in the middle of a run and Panther had to swap the load to another truck. I now have a ding on my "on-time" percentage at 95 percent. Two weeks ago when this happened I called to see if the ding could be removed arguing...
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    Good, or bad?

    OK, I'll tell you what OVM, how about you trade with the drug cartels, they give you their good drugs (sarcasm), you give them free (albeit, long wait times in er's and substandard) medical coverage for all who enter your country. Ironically, that's what we're doing already. And oh yeah...
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    down hill spiral

    OK, found out the outage was due to a hefty lightning storm which knocked out power in Seville at hdqtrs. Still nothing on forced dispatch however, must be someone not too happy about a certain load offer or perhaps how the refusal was handled?, who knows.
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    who's happy

    He also says he going to "pick up the dog do, hope that it's hard" or something like that, just an ordinary average guy. Good tuneage. Panther 4 1/2 yrs, husb/wife team and both happy.
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    down hill spiral

    That's news to me too TTRUCK, when did you hear that? I'm just wondering what's happened to dispatch this morning. POD sent at 00:13 07/03/11 with the green check mark and the QC appears to be down along with the phones and websites. If it was a planned computer upgrade, it would have been...
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    CAT problems

    The FL dealer in OKC, OK off I-40 has a poster ad for a replacement DPF filter element for $699 boasting 1.5 hrs labor instead of down 24 hrs and many more dollars labor. Not sure if for Cat or not.
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