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I'm still pondering the meaning of the last little bit of the following quote from a FMCSA online publication called "Interstate Truck Driver's Guide to Hours of Service." (http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/truck/driver/hos/fmcsa-guide-to-hos.pdf) I don't know how current the info in...

Hate to harsh your mellow, but FEDEX is already rolling out the new QC and EOBR system, and this is still an unresolved issue. I know there are work-arounds possible. For us, we'll just have to put all weekend driving time on my wife because I'm usually in much greater need of a 34-hour...

I just got off the phone with someone is Safety about the logging of personal use of the truck and was informed that their interpretation is that there is no such thing. If a driver with a CDL is driving a CMV with a DOT number it must be logged as "On-Duty Driving" with the possible exception...

Thanks for the input, it does make me feel that my initial understanding of how the system works was correct. As for spending a couple of hours or an afternoon with dispatchers watching how things work, well...probably not gonna happen. In 5 years of being with FDCC we've been to Green 4...

I recently had a conversation with another FDCC driver that caused me to ponder something I thought I already understood. I received an "opportunity" paying me $1.01/mile. I turned it down, as well as the follow-up offer on the same load at $1.11. A dispatcher called me and we came to an...

Piper, you may be right. But I'm going to do all in my power to insure that I retain my personal freedom to use my vehicle LEGALLY. If FDCC wants to restrict my freedom to use my own vehicle on my own time for my own purposes, then perhaps they should make me an employee (after having bought...

So, just what flavor is that Kool-Aide, anyway.

re: IRS audits...we were audited for our first year in the business, and the auditor spent an hour or so leafing through our paper logs to verify our per diem deductions. She found it to be spot on correct and moved on. Without the logs, she could have (and probably would have) denied the...

I don't know how it will be for Elogging on the new Qcomm but I talked to a driver from another company that used such a system and the question of personal miles was a big one for me. Their system allowed them up to 30 minutes of personal driving, but then required an 8 hour wait to have...

Most of my loadlock bars had a nice label on them when new (not the one I inherited somehow though). Over the years, however, they've been chafed and worn to the point of illegibility in many cases. I suspect that won't help things if I'm inspected in Canada. Fortunately, I don't go there...

We upgraded from a Garmin c330 to a nuvi 465t GPS unit for trucks and have a few early observations after just one week. There is a very annoying design flaw regarding the clock. You cannot specify your working timezone (aka "yard or terminal time") The unit wants to automatically change and...

Landed in Jefferson City MO early this AM after delivering at O-dark 30. Slept at a Walmart for several hours, did some shopping and lunch, then headed to Bolivar MO to see grandbabies. Oh, and daughter (and son-in-law, too). Last here at Thanksgiving when one of the twins took a first step...

I had 2 kidney stones (one on each side) that I passed the year before we went expediting. My doctor at the time insisted that because there was a chance for a repeat that I should have sufficient pain medication on the truck so that we could get me somewhere for treatment. We still have that...

I always like an excuse to stop there in Anthony. 30 years ago I was the pastor of the Baptist Church on the New Mexico side of town, and it's always fun for me to be there again. It hasn't happened often, but enough.

Like others, Imodium (generic) for diarhea, Pepto Biz tablets if feeling queasy, but mostly the sickest we get is the occasional cold etc. Wife wound up on the shoulder throwing up one time, but after I moved us 10 miles to a service plaza where she could clean up and get herself back together...

I keep seeing those tanker trucks of Pilot coffee on the hiway, and even if I was a regular coffee drinker, I'm not sure I'd want to drink coffee that was delivered to the stores in those kind of bulk quantities.

Not really. Think of it this way: The amount of ice in a 3 mile iceberg is to the amount of water in the oceans as a snowflake is to my glass of tap water. In other words, they are irrelevent in the scheme of things. The real source of change, to the extent that there is any, is in solar...

reading the now moved posting about the temporary closing and changes of the restaurant at the Flying J in North Houston reminds me that I haven't seen info on here regarding the general nature of that change. I've been told by managers at some that the J is getting out of the restaurant...

Predictions are a tricky thing. While I certainly hope for some improvement in freight, I'm still not sure the fundamentals are there for the economy as a whole. I big part of my work in '09 was military stuff moving around; this will probably continue for '10. If the gov't continues to try to...

DR straight truck, so far have only looked at gross income for the year (stilll waiting for the wife to get the last of the expenses into the spreadsheets). Net should show improvement due to the fact that the truck was paid off in January and I wasn't carrying interest etc. on it. I tried to...