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    Blonde revenge

    Two strangers were seated next to each other on a plane. The guy turned to the cute blonde next to him and made his move. "Let's talk," he said. "I've heard that flights will go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger." The blonde, who had just opened her...
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    ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

    Excellent! We're gonna start calling you Will Rogers. Many thanks for the laughs.
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    Single Drivers

    My wife and I both drive and I'm like you guys in that when the truck is rolling I'm not sleeping really well. And that's not a reflection on my wife's driving:) The real problem that we run into is when we're disptched and we're tired to begin with we do shorten our drive periods, and take...
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    ConwayNow

    Arky, I re-read your response and discovered I hadn't answered your question (my msg ran on, didn't it?). Anyhoo, we're paid for the deadhead either way, to the load or to the layover. My understanding is (and there's a QC macro or 'canned msg' for this) that I can refuse the layover point and...
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    ConwayNow

    Howdy Arkla & Pelikan, and thanks Angela. I've read the follow-ups and it's agreeing with the phone conversations that our other driver friends advise to do. The key seems to be to QC (qualcom) dispatch as soon as you are running the 35mph county roads with stoplights - BEFORE dispatch gets the...
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    ConwayNow

    My wife and I run for ConWay Now and until most recently have been really happy. As a team we run 12-13000 miles a month and yes, the majority of those are 1.07 a mile. But, we get a lot of miles. When I spoke with Ed Conaway at the show he told me they pretty well stick to the 1.07 freight...
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    PLEASE HELP THE NEW-COMERS

    I sent you folks an email about an article that EO has regarding "Fleet Owners Exceeding Expectations". In there 'Expedite Solutions' located in Indianapolis indicate they provide CDL B training. Hope this helps you out. If you don't get the email or something goes haywire just mail me and...
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    In Memory

    When my wife and I received the call last week from Louise, Ed and Ruby's Office Mgr/Bookkeeper we both thought - thank God we had a chance to meet Ed before he passed. We've been leasing from Ed and Ruby since mid November and the experience has been fantastic. Ed and Ruby invited us into...
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    AUX. AXELS

    My wife and I recently had a load into Vicksburg, Miss. I drove during the day and as my wife finished out the run, with routing that would of taken us accross LA she encountered an 18 wheeler that guided her thru a series of back roads to avoid a specific weigh scale. The kind senior driver...
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