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I hear ya on the pay business. I figure my gross for '09 was about 20% off from the previous year, even though we were in service and trying to work smart about the same amount of time. Don't have all the expenses recorded yet, so can't say how the net compared at this time. Since I see no...

We thought of this several years ago and began preparing. As far as our T-Check card goes, as an o/o as near as I can tell the money once on the card is mine and can't be taken away (it probably could but I can't imagine FDCC doing so). My concern was that if I needed to deadhead home...

This has always been a bugaboo for me; we usually just laugh about the fact that the directions are often coming from the other direction. I find, though, that there is a form on the QC for addressing the problem. It's the freeform "00" message. I have on many occasions, including 3...

Cautiously optimistic is the best I can give you for the coming year when it comes to my own situation, but a little less so for the national economy and the trucking and expedite business. Things are balanced on the razor's edge, and could go either way. The media is quick to proclaim any...

I recently stopped at the Wal-Mart in Hope AR and found it to be a truck friendly place. While they do have some barricades to keep trucks out of the main parking lot, there is a special place right next to the "Murphy Express" gas station which is set up especially for trucks. Instead of the...

Just a note regarding radioactive: There is an odd category of radioactive called "DOT Exempt." It is an amount or radioactivity level that falls below the DOT's definition of what constitutes radioactive and above what the regulatory agency for nuclear power, etc. (sorry for the senior...

I looked at the ProLink page. Interesting device. Interesting feature is the "tattle tale" shown in the demo. It apparently tracks the number of times a change has been made (watch closely and you'll see that the number changes from 24 to 25 after the completion of the change in the demo)...

Just saw that news report tonight, and haven't told the wife the update yet. I suspect she'll continue to be concerned over limitation on our ability to protect ourselves, even though this particular case appears to be unrelated to that issue now. Doug

Just saw the letter(s) tonight. There's one for Surface Expedite trucks and a different one for White Glove. As I read the WG letter, FDCC expects WG's to put the limiter on so that they can continue to carry sealed, temp, etc. loads into Canada; SE trucks don't have to and can arrange cross...

So often the dispatch system doesn't make sense to me. I'm sitting (at home) in Florida a little west of Tallahassee, and just got a run from Baton Rouge, LA. Even given that it is a liftgate, pallet jack, and inside pu/del, I can't believe that I'm the closest and best qualified truck sitting...

10 years ago today my wife checked into the hospital for surgery to remove a benign tumor. Approximately six weeks later she died of a brain hemorrhage caused by an unrelated infection she developed in the hospital during recovery. She never left the hospital after checking in. Much of the rest...

My understanding is that the law prohibits changing it back and forth, it must be a permanent situation. How exactly that can or will be enforced, I don't know, but that's how I understand the situation. As for me, I resent like crazy the notion that a foreign government presumes to tell me...

I try to remind people of the way distance from pick-up affects the price per mile (all miles) calculation, and to warn of the psychological effect of seeing what looks like a real poor paying load being taken by someone else. In this particular case for example, because of the long...

We will include Scott and Helen in our prayers, of course. My wife (and co-driver)'s first response to seeing this was outrage at the FDCC (or any other) rules that prevent us from carrying protection on the truck with us. We are in the process of applying for concealed carry permits, and...

I was doing some thinking along these lines the other day when I read the summary of the FDCC "conference call" from a couple of weeks ago. The observation was made that pricing and rates are related to the market and driven by customer demand and expectations. Significantly, shippers "expect...

I just read your analysis of diesel price vs cost distributed in the weekly bulletin from FDCC, and if you haven't posted it on the forum here someplace, you should. However, it seems to me there's a missing component. Your example is based on a particular truck run and does calculations...

300# of chicken eggs, fertilized and incubated to 12 days, from Amish country PA to an industrial plant in Ontario. Turned out they make machines for processing medical products which are cultivated in eggs, and they need them to calibrate the machines and make sure they are properly adjusted...

Proximity is no guarantee. Two weeks ago while sitting in Las Cruces NM I accepted an "opportunity" for a pickup in Scottsdale AZ. Another truck I know was sitting in Phoenix and accepted the same "opportunity." I got the load. While it paid sufficient "all miles" to meet my minimum criteria...

Re: Big3 vs "Jap" cars Back in the late 70's when I was in seminary, I worked part time at the Ford Truck Plant in Louisville KY, and was a member of the UAW (required of course). I still have my membership card! While I was working there I upgraded my 76 Honda Accord to a 78 Accord...

If it had just been about Obama and McCain, I'd have voted for Barr. I figure the only significant difference in policies between O and M is the speed of the crash and which side of the cliff we plunge off. But Obama is so clearly a socialist (Marxist?) in his policies, and his choice of...