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    Why do people pick on the Mentally Handicap

    I am a parent of a mentally challenged child - She's not a child now but it still hurts when the morons decide to show their ignorance and say something entirely stupid and inappropriate. What does this subject have to do with expediting - what does it have to do with truck driving. I will...
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    The call you never like

    My dad called me early this morning. My mother who had been fighting schleradema and all of its associated ills for several years has gone to be with the lord.
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    Restless Leg Syndrone

    I have also found that taking my medication at the same time based on our tz at home has created no problems. When I tried to do it based on when I got up and when I went to sleep meant facing taking too much or not enough. Ok, i've heard of restless leg syndrone but what really is it?
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    TRANSFLO question

    Question for yall about transflo express. Is there a way to resubmit a batch?
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    What did you do before you started in Expediting.

    I am trying to keep a straight face here. Fighting the urge to be creative. Let's see I drove for SWIFT, then before that drove for Werner, then before that drove for Southern Refrigerated Transport. Then before that while I was in truck driving school I flipped burgers at a Jack In The Box...
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    Safety Belt Video not what you think

    One of my friends sent me this website. This is not the usual safety belt use video. Embrace Life
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    OOIDA's Advantage Medical Benefit plan??

    So does anybody use this at all? Advantage Plans, Trucking Benefits and Services - Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Before I chunk out some change for this I want some folks experiences with it. OOIDA membership monthly fee for this service
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    OOIDA's Advantage Medical Benefit plan??

    Does anybody on this forum use this? Especially interested if you had a pre-existing like diabetes.
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    Husband and Wife teams, how do you do it?

    I've teamed with my wife now for almost 2 years. 1 full one at Swift and almost a year at Panther. The only way to find out if a husband - wife, or for that matter any other 2 people wanting to team on a truck will make it together is to just try it. Leader of the team? Depends on who...
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    Big Rig Video

    I've heard of this, but I just happened to find it on hulu. Hulu - Big Rig - Watch the full feature film now.
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    Volcano's Business Impact

    Volcanic ash is not like the ash from a forest fire or the ash from your fireplace. It contains things like rock fragments, glass shards, toxic gases and chemicals. Business impact? Look back to what occurred after Mt. St. Helens erupted, after 9-11. What comes from and to the european...
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    What would you do??

    Jenny and others, this is not isolated incidents and only for van drivers. This is what has happened to my wife. While we were bringing back two tractors from Phoenix to Dallas, this other driver came up alongside of my wife, matched her speed no matter what speed she did. I finally broke...
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    Old! Me Old???

    I started getting grey hair when I was 45. I've routinely gotten senior discounts since then. Doesn't bother me.
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    More Per Diem Questions

    I was a company driver from January thru June, Then as a driver for a fleet owner July till now. So do I file per-diem on form 2106 at the $52 rate, then on sched C at the $52 rate from July to Oct 1, then $59 for the remainder of the year? Then how does the fact that my spouse is my...
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    can we get a little more clarity on the boards

    What I'm saying is that if you request the board position and the reposition macro (if it even shows anything) they will both show the daily average. Why is that the average on the board position is different than the reposition macro? When I've asked Panther the response has been - I don't...
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    can we get a little more clarity on the boards

    I would be happier if they would explain how the daily averages are determined. I would be even happier if they could explain why the averages are different from when you use the board position macro and the reposition macro. While we are on the wishing subject, I wish they would as part of...
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    Preventable Or Not

    On the surface, hitting a deer is non-preventable. On the surface, hitting a stationary object is preventable. What I was told one time was that when there are two or more distinct incidents (hitting a deer, hitting a stationary object) the determination is going to be on the preventable...
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    Stuck In Florida..Once Again

    Why don't they put those kind of loads on their trucks? When we were driving for swift we could almost be guaranteed a beer or beer can load out of Denver,Ft. Collins,Golden area.
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    QC Issues

    Yeap, we are having the problem as well. We have also ran into the problem, where deadhead numbers and money were not being generated automatically.
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    Overview of weather

    I found this on the NWS web site. http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/noaa/noaa.gif
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