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I've recently found out via Linda at my factoring company and from Jeremy Nimmo (Blizzard) that Phillip Valliere, known here as 60MPH, passed away on the 12th of this month. His mother called a couple people off his cell phone and I got calls from Jeremy and from Linda yesterday. No other...

When I was on the road for the summer, I had a notion regarding log books and I asked a few people, including some cops, and got varying answers. This is what I did. I took a standard loose leaf log book page and scanned it in as a pdf. I then opened it on a pdf annotator app on my ipad and...

I'm curious how folks handle this. You make a delivery and you want to do some non work stuff that would involve driving somewhere. (theater, gym, sports stadium, etc.) How are you logging that? I've heard a lot of varying opinions on the subject. How do you handle that, log it as driving...

This is really a pretty honest question here, not one of my rhetorical things to make a point like I have been known to do in the past. We have some recruiting ads running and I've been hit with some questions I had never really considered in the past, so I'd like to see the kinds of things you...

While we're on the topic of companies doing all sorts of things they shouldn't do, here's another one. I got a call from a new customer last night asking if we could cover a hot load they had from Illinois to Connecticut. We didn't have any trucks in the area, but since this is a new...

I'm wondering how many of you are seeing higher rates with the higher fuel costs. It's becoming pretty hard to get a higher rate on any bid freight right now because it seems that the bidding hasn't increased enough to keep up with the fuel increases. Even on NLM where the surcharge is...

We've become an LLC now instead of a sole prop but the tax guy we've used the last few years is still wanting to treat me as an individual, lumping all the income together for tax purposes. What I'm curious about is, since our customers pay the LLC and not me, and since our drivers are paid by...

I've been reading on here and hearing from drivers when I was on the road that they expect a certain amount for loads based on having a certain type of vehicle. These are normally people who drive cubes, Sprinters, Aerocells, and other types of non dock high vehicles with higher capacity than a...

FoxNews.com - Alabama Mother of 2 Killed by Pothole

Here's a real situation, with names left out to protect the innocent...or guilty...depending on what side you want to take. A contractor is dispatched on a load and arrives at the shipper, but can't get loaded right away due to some problems at the shipper's facility. The dispatcher...

Matthew 20:1-16 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2"When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3"And he went out about the third hour and saw others...

There is a lot of talk around here about fuel surcharges and how much a driver should get, etc., so I have some questions to bring up just to see exactly what the expectation is. 1. If a carrier is obligated to pass on a surcharge to the driver, is a carrier obligated to charge a FSC...

.75 cents per mile with a .15 fuel surcharge, and .90 a mile all included? Does money spend differently if you call it by a different name? Just curious.

No, I'm not leaving expediting, just transitioning away from the driving end of things. It's just getting a bit too busy for me to stay on the road and keep up with things. I'm hoping things continue to get busier so I can stay busy running things from home and so I can make enough money to...

Many people have a truck stop addiction. How do you know if you have this problem? Here are some of the warning signs. 1. You will pay .10 more a gallon for fuel your truck gets lower mileage on to get a "free" shower. 2. You deliver a load in an area that your company gets a ton of...

I'm thinking about getting into expediting. You see, my brother in law worked with this guy who had a cousin who worked at GM. That cousin used to see these cargo vans delivering parts there and he said they were expediters. One of them drivers said he had come from 1200 miles away! So when...

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I'm having a curious experience with my 07 Sprinter. It seems that every time I put any kind of fuel additive in, the van will go into limp mode for about 400-500 miles and then will go back to normal. I'm thinking the van just doesn't like additives and will go into limp mode until it's out...

There have been a lot of discussions on here about places people like to park and what not, and that has me wondering about those places you just don't like to stick around. What are those places you just won't wait around for another load after you deliver, or you won't wait more than a couple...

Yesterday I booked a pretty nice load from another carrier that I won't name. The load was over 1000 miles and I got a decent enough rate on it, so I proceeded to dh 240 miles to get into position to pick it up. Now I wake up this morning to a message that the load has cancelled, so I called...