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if your a member of ooida,call them,and cis,or if your leased to someone,group rates are best

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not the management of your team ,but yor internal clock.myself and many others find it difficult to sleep the ten hours,or even just ride for a few hours and be fully rested after the time off

In your ten hour split,if you have a slow to load shipper,you wont run out of hours,but you could run out on your 14.Remember,if you start your day at 0800 2000, your time is up.Your co-driver going to sleep from 0600 to 2000 when they have been sleeping all night while you were waiting for your...

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even with your repairs on that tractor,you bottom line pay ,end of year will be more than a van.Your over the road experience wont matter when it comes to operating a van or sprinter.Expedite is a different ball game than truck load. If your determined,all the expedite companies do a big...

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Moose,I sent my answer to the fmcsa directly.I put the need for teams to be on a split clock,such as a 5 and 5 split.On another note,back when we didi the 5 and 5,we didndt split driving 5 and 5,we split being awake 5 and 5,worked great for us.The 10 or 11 hour rule makes it tough on...

When I get tired,I just pull over,wake up my partner, and we will switch for couple hours while I take a nap.It works the other way too.WHat the loggging department doesn't know won't hurt them

The car I drive has a 4 cylinder motor.If I go on a trip and drive 60 mph, that car will get almost 35 mpg.At 70 mpg or in city driving,that mileage drops to 23 mpg.In my truck,at 57mph,is what I usually drive,I get almost 7 mpg.Anything over 65 and the mileage drops drastically,under 5mpg

You know years back when the government gave the states right to make their own speed laws,these states realized trucks got less fuel mileage at 65 than 55 so the states upped their speed laws and at the same time,raised their mileage taxes.Who wins?

do you have any idea what the the price of authority it cost to operate that cab,plus,how about theft?you can have all the cabs you can buy.I have a ggod friend that owns 3 cabs in NYC.He has a hard time keeping drivers,and the medalions for each cab costs more than you can believe.He is an...

You need the perfect way to keep awake. Take a bag of potato chips,crumble them up into a powder,then put them in your shorts.Guranteed to keep you awake

Re: New To edex Custom Critical with those percentages,lead driver would make less than 40000 year.Kevin your not on the flat rate system,your truck makes more than the flat rate trucks.And as I stated,my co driver makes 25%.he made 42000 and we only worked 38 weeks.He averaged 36cpm loaded and...

I thought if your truck was capable of 8000 lbs or more when loaded,thats what they went buy

You better check with yor accountant.If thos ia a lease with a buy out,that's same as a purchase and you can only take interest and depreciation.If the lease also includes serviices,you may be payng out more than you can write off

Bigest mistake in buying a truck,is trying to offset the payment by saving fuel,There are to many variables that can take a truck that is gettin 13 mpg and cause it to drop to 8 mpg.Just think how many loads at that lower fuel mileage it would take for you to go broke..Load...

That company doesnt ship with the same person every day.If a C/V takes their load,and gets to a place where Its all sprinters,these companies that want to keep their sprinters busy are going to overlook the C/V,there fore some day they will become white elephants as the old A units have

Re: Finding Loads/Back Hauls You have to realize this is expedite,Unless a company is useing the internet load board,they will not solicit loads from any company.That lowers the rate.To get the high expedite rate,the shipper has to be in a bind to get his load picked up and delivered.There are...

Re: New To edex Custom Critical Thats 20 cpm each,and the team truck won't run enough miles for you to keep your drivers.my co driver averages 78 cents per loaded miles.Even with thei new flat rate system,your not going to get 5000 miles a week.Almost every truck load company a driver wants to...