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I'll try to make a long story blessedly shorter if I can. I'm here in Orlando. I was idling in a parking lot yesterday afternoon when I heard a noise in the engine and then the AC started blowing warm air. Then when I went to drive, the steering was really stiff. It appeared that the battery...

I've been seeing an awful lot of employee speak on here lately. How many of you actually are employees? If you drive someone else's truck, then you are en employee...but of that truck owner, not the expedite company. But a lot of other people who are leased on to a company are speaking like...

I know a lot of people pick on Swift and last night I had an encounter which reinforced whatever negative opinion I might have already had. I was sitting up in Toledo and there wasn't much going on so I decided to deadhead home. I was coming down 75 and I was still a bit north of Dayton where...

I'm hanging out in Boston this weekend with a load delivering tomorrow morning. I just got done touring the Constitution and that WWII ship they have next to it. On the WWII ship there was an area where you could see an officer's cabin. It wasn't a very big room to say the least, but it had a...

I bought some fuel the other day at a gas station that was selling diesel, not at a large chain truck stop. About 25 miles down the road, I was losing power. The van wouldn't go over 60 mph. I got off the road and parked for a few minutes, started it back up and it ran fine for about 30 more...

Ok, I know we don't like the term paid tourist, but if you're like me there are times you take advantage of your work to do that very thing. What are the things that are most likely going to get you away from the truck stop? (or Wal Mart parking lot) Are there certain places on your list that...

Now there is no way I would go back to being a leased on O/O, but today I saw the other side of being independent. It's not the first time something like this happened, but I thought I would share it. I ran down to Laredo from Dallas last night, had a couple pallets out of Irving and stopped...

Ok, I've answered this question a half dozen times the last couple days so here it is for the record. The Panther bid board I have mentioned is not a board that is used by people leased on to Panther. It is a board where they put loads that they are brokering out to outside carriers...

I delivered in Vegas Friday and didn't get a load out that day, so I figured on sitting for the weekend. The other day I saw a local run listed on the Panther bid board, just a 15 mile run across town, and I put in a bid and got it for a darn good amount of money for that short a run. It was...

I just got off the phone with a broker. They have two skids picking up in Akron going to Yuma, AZ. The load picks up tomorrow morning and needs to be in Yuma on Friday, around 2300 miles. They're wanting to pay no more than $650. I got the "but it's only a partial" line. Sometimes all you...

Ok, that time of year again. I've got my taxes about done, but I've been thinking I wouldn't mind consulting a pro who has a clue about our industry to make sure I'm not missing anything. I think I remember a thread on here a few months ago where some folks were mentioning some good tax...

The other day I was thinking about things I would change if I was in charge for a day, kind of like when Mike McConnell talks about what he'll do when he's Earth Czar. I got to thinking about just what I would do with the trucking industry and I came up with a pretty good list. 1. I...

Maybe I'm still too new to this business and this is old news to some on here, but there is something that is beginning to really tick me off. It's this insistence of some shippers on dock high equipment to move a load that is sometimes one or two pallets and under a ton when the shipper has...

I have seen quite a bit of Panther bashing on here and I have been guilty of a lot of it myself over the last few months, mostly repeating things I have heard from other drivers and what not. Now I was never leased to them or anything, but since I got my authority I have run a few of their...

I'm curious here. I recently got my authority and I've been running a mixture of loads, some from the carrier I'm leased to and some on my own. The loads I've been getting on my own have been from www.getloaded.com, but I'm curious what other load boards are out there where expedite loads can...