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Today Terry passed on to me a Website that will give you hotspots throughout the country.You can type in your location and it will give you hotspots based on your location,and you can expand the coverage.Say you were going to deliver in Las Vegas,you can check ahead and locate areas that you can...

A Team. I inadvertenly removed your post RE Fuel Costs.Sorry,Can you repeat it .Thanks

Last week I finally sprang for a laptop. Tried to buy a Dell but the phone call went to India and I could understand one word in five,so I bought a HP system with some bells and whistles. It has the capabililty to load a dvd in it and watch a movie. My question is ,if you watch a movie in the...

It seems to me that more and more people are joing the Expediting industry expecting to roll 24 hours a day. A bunch of recent posts had drivers very upset after 1-2 weeks with a company etc. Someone thought they should bail out of Indianapolis after a couple of hours waiting. Indy is one of the...

The end of June is upon us and I was wondering how everyone has fared with the new rules. Personally they have helped me and hindered me. Running Team which I do about 75% of the time is no problem because we always ran 5 on/5 off. The 34 hour restart is great.You can take a weekend off and go...

Lots of talk these days about fuel costs,gas vs diesel,surcharges etc.Last Sunday I was in a motel in Hickory NC and started looking at figures for 2004 vs 2004. For the first 5 months of this year fuel costs were 14.8 % of my total gross revenue.In 2003 for the same time frame fuel costs were...

Today XM sent out a E mail that the National Association Of Broadcasters is trying to stop them and Serius from giving real time traffic and weather conditions in major metro areas.I guess they want us to listen to local sceaming DJ!s and make sure we vist Tom!s Ford this weekend. They have a...

Dave and Glen,I left both of you guys a somewhat important message in the Moderators Forum.

I just read that land Line article about the Conway Lady that had a long wait to get unloaded in Long Island NY and could not run her engine for heat. When the new rules go into effect she may have had to wait an additional 10 hours before she could get warm,or buy a Motel room.Last Saturaday a...

Landstar Express America annouced that a good guy has left us.Bill Mcloud who was a long time Roberts/FDX CC recuiter passed away on Sunday.Bill originally recruited me way back when ( when my hair was black)and through the years whenever I would run into him he was always a pleasnt person to be...

Hey George that was me that passed you last Friday morning at the Norfolk Naval Base. That Western star looks good, sorry I didn!t have the time to stop and purchase something from you.LOL. No offense meant.

A little hint for those of us with FDX CC or anyone else who uses Trip Pak to send in their paperwork,is too write down somewhere on your copy the date and the location of the Trip Pak box you used.I heard about a guy that had his paperwork lost by Trip Pak and they wanted to know the box...

In January the new hours of Service rules will take effect. I thought all along that it was no big deal and I would gain one more hour to drive,loose one hour of on duty and have 2 more hours of off duty time. I read where Walmart is fighting these changes and I can see why. The new regulations...

While not relating directly to expediting the July/August issue of Mens Health magazine has a 36 page supplement in how to avoid a heart attack. Lots of useful information to keep yourself going, can also apply to Women too. Stress is one of the Biggies,and all of us in the expediting field know...

I have been out 3 weeks running hard,made some decent bucks,and do not understand this bashing of FDX CC. Hear me Brandy, I have been with FDX ( Roberts) since 1987 and have always earned a adequate income. I do not agree 100% with their policies but I am free to leave if I want to. No Company...

Anybody seen or heard from Wild Bill lately?

I have oftern wondered that when a driver is in a so called "off duty" status waiting to be dispatched either at home or on the road, that this so called "available" time should be considered "on duty". I base this on the fact that a driver can be called for a random drug or alcohol test at any...

Hard to believe that after 3-4 years and god knows how many millions of dollars went into the DOT study that drivers can now drive 11 hours instead of 10,and now must take a 10 hour break instead of 8. My 4 year old Grandaughter who is going on 40 could have probably come up with that.. I think...

I may take some heat on this but this is one of the few times I have exercised my position as a Moderator on EO. I was watching the posts that were coming on EO about the impending Irag mess and starting to see various well intentioned people starting to take sides and draw lines as too their...

Well I may be joining GEO and many others in leaving FDX CC.I have been with them since October 1987,put on close to 2 million accident free miles,gone way out of my way to help the company on many occasions,but now feel after their illustrious accident investigator (PAT.G) finished with me it!s...