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  1. ftp000

    I got a call

    CAREFUL , I don't think white people are allowed to say nizzle.
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    Carriers: 2009 To Be Slow Year in Trucking

    Throw in a fridge full of Corona and I'll sneak down south just to ride back with ya!
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    100 Gals of Fuel = $296.90

    hate to pee on this picnic, but OPEC has started lowering production to put a stop to our happiness. It makes one think, if we were to start more drilling, they would be less able to make such moves effective. More availability equals lower prices, as long as we depend on OPEC nations they've...
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    Is this normal?

    I've been an owner/operater (sprinter) with Nations for almost 3 years, back is March I hired somebody to run my sprinter and took some time off the road. Last week , due to my financial needs, I let Nations know that I was going to go back into my van. The compliance guy there told me that...
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    07 Sprinter floor

    I just got a nice new 2007 Sprinter, it already has a factory installed load rail system and some pretty solid hard floors, my question is, are those floors gonna hold up with skids slidding in and out? or should I still do the old ply wood deal? What are others with 07's doing?
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    Diesel cargo Van VS Gas cargo Van.

    we have 2 Sprinters, both 06. One has 150,000 on it and the other is at 46,000. We've had very few problems with these two, and I haven't heard of too many problems with Sprinters since the whole egr issue was solved. I do agree though that they are too expensive and that when you do have even a...
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    Diesel cargo Van VS Gas cargo Van.

    How about some honesty here. The truth is that for the most part, Sprinters are the wave of the future. A lot of the posters on here either own or operate older and quickly becoming obsolete standard cargo vans, so they don't want to tell you the truth. I will, the majority of companies have no...
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    Sample driver contracts

    We are about to become a 2 van operation and will be hiring a driver. Would anybody care to share a sample drivers contract? pm it or email it or post a link.
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    Business

    You're right about the caps, I fixed it. Thank-you. As to Moot's post being a joke, if it was, I apologize. I enjoy a good tongue in cheek as much as the next guy. I just didn't read it that way, its kind of hard sometimes to read sarcasm.
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    Business

    Business is great so far, acting just like it should...Feb. up from Jan .... par up from Feb. and so on Moot. Ban the Van? Usually stupid things on this board look like this "did any body here what i herd". Congrats on properly spelling your stupid statement. I'm sure the semi drivers would see...
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    BULLY PULPIT

    my new personal favorite "talk like that will give the liberals fodder to take away our light bulbs"
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    Just to vent a little

    yea, what will probably happen is that some liberal organization will visit EO, or my pathetic Myspace page and then quote my little rant, Americans will be turned against you and they'll finally pry you're gun from your cold dead hands. Seriously Leo, within half an hour of posting that I had...
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    Just to vent a little

    My tongue was planted firmly in cheek when I wrote this mess, I probably should have posted it here to start with, thanks for moving it.
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    Just to vent a little

    Lighten up Leo, I obviously am not condoning real violence. I was just describing how I believe most of us as drivers drivers have felt at one time or another. Most people get it, it seems to me though, that in your haste to protect your right to bear arms, which I whole heartedly support, you...
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    Just to vent a little

    I am kind of a hobby writter, this little piece I wrote recently after a couple of especially agravating days on the road. Maybe somebody will get a chuckle from it, I'm sure most of you have felt this way. As a professional driver I have noticed that some people are complete and total idiots...
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    Union - Could it work, is it needed?

    for some reason the whole time I was reading CW's last post I could hear a choir singing "look for the union label" in my ear. Don't get mad, it was a joke. But all this talk of unions took me back a couple of years to when I drove a straight truck for Tri-state, we lived in ohio at the time...
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    Union - Could it work, is it needed?

    I was in a union for 15 years at the Post Office, pretty much everybody in the building was getting paid the same money, I worked my a$$ of night after night (I was a night shift mail handler) but I still made the same money as the deadbeats who did little or nothing shift after shift. I got...
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    quick question about sleep apena

    I wonder if having a medical requirement to run a cpap machine would make one immune to anti-idle laws?
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    Canada no more canada loads for me!!!

    I'll keep doing the canada runs, our carrier is pretty short on drivers who will go up there so it has really been a life saver for us. For instance, last week we got unloaded in hartsvile sc. and learned that we were #11 on the columbia board, the nearest board with a shortage was a couple of...
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    need a PM from a Nations Express driver

    its all worked out, we recieved a check..... now we just have to find out why it didn't go direct deposit. But thats just a phone call, everything was payed correctly I'm sure its just a paperwork snafu.
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