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There's a small truckstop across the river in Phenix City, on US431 just south of the interchange with US280. It's an easy reach from Ft. Benning. Doesn't look like much, but there's plenty of parking if you pull in and look. C-store is so-so, but usually clean, and they have a small TV room...

Baggett Transportation out of Birmingham AL. Small company, but seems to have big heart. Mostly DoD stuff as DaveKC mentioned. Not so much an expedite division as just a few straight trucks. They had some a few years ago, but got out of it. Experimenting with it again.

We haven't left the house yet for our first load with our new carrier, but we're already seeing a difference that makes us feel "warm and fuzzy." We've had two messages come across the Qcomm in the past 2 days. One was a request for prayers for a driver's family which had experienced a death...

Moose, nothing in the research I've done has pointed to a requirement that "ALL rest requirements have been met." If you've got something on it, I'd love to see it. According to the sources I've worked with, a driver could use up his entire 11/14 hour day, be released from duty at his home...

This, in fact, is why FDCC originally was going to go with NO personal use until drivers beat them up severely over it. Their interpretation was that if you're driving a CMV with a CDL, you have to be on-duty to do so, despite the rules. It was a lawyer thing, but I guess when they realized...

The other issue involved in "personal use" is "reasonable." This is also sticky and very variable. It is purposely left vague because of the variability of situations but that causes the problem of interpretation. "Reasonable" is in the eye of the beholder, so to speak, and the...

The trainer at our new carrier (during orientation) had an interesting take on this topic. He said that the real question about if you are off-duty is whether what you are doing is furthering the needs of your business. If it is, then you are on-duty; if not, then off-duty. The OP in this...

We submitted our termination notice to FDCC today, effective 7/9. We've been with the company for over 7.5 years, but have finally arrived at the point where we feel it is in our best interest to move on. Kathy in Contractor Relations did seem genuinely interested in why we were leaving, and...

True. It's the firemen, brakemen, and flagmen who have been eliminated. Conductor is still there, sort of as assistant engineer.

we did a similar job once, and they flat told us that their preference would have been to drive the truck onto the plane and fly the whole rig to Alaska, but that they didn't have the budget for the plane necessary to carry that size load. Ironically, the load cancelled on us twice (once before...

We got about $700 once for a load less than 2 blocks. When I finished securing the 1 item I had handcarried to the truck and closed the door, I could turn around and see the delivery point. I was tempted just to walk the load to the other spot, but was too lazy to walk back, so I drove down...

Got my first "running late" msg in a long time recently. I had a 3rd stop at a "safe haven" along the route to my delivery. I had confirmed that the haven location had a 24-hour manned gate and that I could arrive whenever I wanted and leave whenever I needed. No other facilities, though (even...

Got my first "running late" msg in a long time recently. I had a 3rd stop at a "safe haven" along the route to my delivery. I had confirmed that the haven location had a 24-hour manned gate and that I could arrive whenever I wanted and leave whenever I needed. No other facilities, though (even...

Dave, do I understand correctly that you run at least one truck on your own authority? We are thinking about that as an option as FDCC seems to be slowly pushing us towards the exit after 7-some years. I'd love to have some info from someone doing their own authority on how that is working out...

And while you're at it, be sure and get an Oklahoma turnpike pass, and a Kansas K-Tag. A Florida SunPass. An Illinois I-pass. An EZ-Pass for all those northeastern toll roads and bridges. West Virginia probably has something for their toll road, too. Oh, yeah, and what about California toll...

Ok, I think you're not getting it quite right here. As I read it (and as the dispatchers and responsible people at FDCC did last week when we ran into this), it appears to say that if the individual containers have a rated capacity of more than 119 gallons each AND if the total of the...

Recently had a request from dispatcher to send a needed document to me via fax or email. I wasn't anywhere near a fax machine, and have no provision in the truck to print out an attachment to an email. It set me wondering what other drivers do or have in this regard. Do you have the ability...

I've been told several times by sources I consider valid that we will not lose our 1/2% when the logos come off. We're grandfathered in on our current contracts and will continue to receive the pay until we replace the trucks. Then the new scheme will apply: $1000 annual bonus for logos...

Jessup, as well as pretty much every other pay lot we've ever been to, still has the 2 hour free exception to paying. Rates have gone up a bit at some of the lots in the last year. Ultra-One Platinum cards get a free overnight at a pay lot each month, a real good reason in addition to the...

Just got to wondering if, as the rebranding process goes forward, the dispatch system will rate "brand standard" trucks higher than "non-brand standard" trucks. In other words, all things being equal, will the truck next to mine be dispatched in preference to me just because he has a white cab...