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Would that be the trucks that I see going down the highway in reverse?

Your cooperative idea is very similar to how some of my owner/operators work. I have some guys that I trust enough to look for their own freight, but I have other drivers I would never trust to do that. Some of them wouldn't even want to. Since I've had guys going this way for a while, I can...

It's pretty simple. Just go to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, follow the steps on there, and then stay the heck out of whatever part of the country I'm in.

That happened to me at the J in Tampa last year. The manager said they needed those parking spaces for the restaurant. There were plenty of parking spaces available at the moment. I said to the manager, "There's a Cracker Barrel off this exit as well. Where do you think people would rather...

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I fueled a couple times at TA yesterday and used my card, just to show my appreciation. Here are a couple observations. If you have a diesel van, you might still be out of luck at some of them. One I stopped at did not have any diesel pumps out front and none of the truck pumps had small...

Yep, and then some people feel like an advance is something a carrier owes a driver, like there's something wrong with carriers who don't do advances.

There are more snakes in D.C. than you'll ever see in Texas.

I run a very small carrier and still drive. I've been in all 48 states in the last year and just in the last month I have had drivers in and out of every region of the country. The truth is, there's freight going just about anywhere you want to go and most carriers have access to it...

I'm just staying out of there for now. I have my favorite places to run and I'll keep it that way.

It's definitely possible if you work smart, don't take garbage loads to garbage areas just to do your dispatcher a "favor", and you're smart with your expenses.

I was planning on coming, but I just took a load to North Carolina yesterday, and I don't plan on deadheading back to Ohio from the east coast. That would not be in my best interests financially. Now if a load comes up, I'll see y'all there tomorrow.

I have a standard email that I have been sending out recently to all the other chains besides Flying J, identifying myself as the head of a carrier instead of a driver, hoping that will carry just a tiny bit more weight. If and when I get any responses, I'll post them here. With that said...

Scotty's in Wilton, NY doesn't have a free shower for gas purchses, but it's only $5 or $6 to pay for a shower full price and their showers are very clean.

Bovine excrement

Since I'm still relatively new in this business, just two so far, and they're both still running. I have the Sprinter that I drive and I have a straight that my mother and brother are teaming in. All the other units I run are owner operators.

On a cargo van? Since PA has been in recent months a much better freight area than OH, I would be very miffed at being told to move empty from PA to OH just for some darn decals.

And that's the problem. Too many people who think a contractor is an employee.

Most of the people driving cars around us are mentally impaired?

I went to Best Buy and had a radio installed with an auxiliary jack. Just plug your satellite radio into that and you get the best sound.