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During our recent visit to FDCC dispatch I mentioned EO to the dispatcher we were sitting with (who's been there a long time), and she acted as though she'd never heard of it. Made a point to write down the name so she could look it up. I guess it's the best kept non-secret in the industry.

Long ago, 1989 it was. Red Carpet Inn in Macon GA (it's no longer there, not surprisingly). Well before I traveled professionally. After driving 13 hours from KCMO, we stopped for the night. Beautiful lobby complete with huge chandelier. Unrecognizable (at the time) accent on the desk clerk...

I ran into a BR o/o last year in Dallas, I think it was. He was relocating his truck to the northeast, based on his conclusion that the only place he could really make money with the truck was to work in the Northeast Corridor or mid-Atlantic. Second hand, based on my memory, but that has...

We had to be at Green earlier this month for our Rad/Exp Hazmat Training renewal, and decided to go in a day early to visit the dispatch center. It is often suggested here on the forums that one can gain a good perspective by sitting with the dispatchers and watching them work for a bit. This...

My dad and his wife sort of ran the Corps of Engineers campgrounds on and around Lewisville Lake for several years in a row back a few. They ran the gatehouses and collected the funds from all of them, etc. We had a couple of nice visits with them while they were there, and I never cross over...

We're kinda hoping to be the very last one changed over. Like LOS said, more costs for little gain.

I was in the shop 3 days after an accident a couple of years ago, and my insurance through FDCC/Baldwin&Lyons paid for lost income all days from the first. I'd be really torqued off if my coverage made me be out of service a week before the benefit that is supposed to cover it kicked in.

How exactly is that arrogance? When we started nearly 6 years ago, we bought a used class 8 w/ factory sleeper tractor which had been converted into a reefer truck (all new box and reefer unit). I had concluded after a lot of conversations with people that a class 8 was better suited to the...

The couple that bought the last Bentz sleeper (the $250K truck that was used at the truck show) were, for some reason, never able to get into White Glove, and after months of asking and being left as Surface Expedite, have left the company and gone somewhere else. The economics for one of these...

During Hazmat class yesterday we had a session with Boo on Gov't loads and requirements. I asked about what the response is supposed to be to the panic button and it seems that sending an 'is everything ok?" message is the first response. No reply gets a phone call, and if no answer, then the...

Though I was turning it down for reason other than low pay (I needed to get to Green for a HazMat training), I kept receiving the same load offer the other night. The dispatcher wasn't adding pay to the run, just kept sending it out. I turned it down again a bit after 10PM with a "reason"...

I must be getting dense in my old age, because I can't see how that wouldn't start or continue a day clock for the non-driving team member. Log on in what status? Off-duty? Couldn't be. Sleeper? Already there I would think, and logging on would imply no longer in the sleeper. On Duty Driving...

How does the CLink know which team member is attempting to look at the screen? I'm waiting for the first time the system tries to send me a "running late" msg. I agree with the fleet messages comment, btw. How about just adding them to the weekly email bulletin and be done with it. We...

If a message/load offer comes in while the truck is moving, does the new C-link system require that the truck be stopped before the message can be seen at all? With my old system I can see if the message is a fleet message which can be ignored for the time being, or an offer which requires...

sometimes.

While I agree that I have been seeing a lot of low price offers, I have no problem turning then down as often as necessary. I do get tired of seeing the same load over and over again, especially when there is no change or just $100 added as though somehow that's the magic amount that makes an...

Sorry I didn't see this earlier. 407-923-7100 is my cell phone number. The wedding was a great party, but the break stretched longer than we planned due to some maintenance we tried to get on our reefer. Fixed, but another (possibly related) problem cropped up immediately so we're still not a...

I wonder if the number of trucks in the area that can take a load affects the offered price. I was told by someone once that one of the many factors that FDCC keeps track of is what price your truck normally accepts. This would make it possible for them to determine an offer price based on...

That must explain all the people I see running around with the sleeves ripped or cut off of their shirts.

Well, I could start out by suggesting that in the Incarnation, God Himself has made a physical depiction of Himself (Col 2:9). This would in fact be consistent with the understanding that through Christ the Law has fulfilled its purpose and is at an end (at least in regard to how it serves as a...