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I have a simple rule. I sleep when I'm tired.

Entirely sane people aren't in this business.

I'm in Ohio as well, but I'm sitting in my living room. Rough layover.

Re: Special Seal RE: Seal on truck I've hauled a couple dogs and a cat, but I don't think I've had a seal on board. Do you have to keep a bucket of fish handy and how often do you have to take them out to do their business?

I know. Just poking fun. Anyway, I don't take the amounts that some carriers do, because in the case of a dry run, the deadheading and other hassle was incurred by the driver, so in my book, the driver should get most of the revenue from the dry runs. I've only had two dry runs on loads I...

So I could be making a profit off a driver's dry runs? I've been doing it wrong all along, passing all of it on to the driver. I guess I have a lot to learn if I want to be a big bad evil carrier.

Happy New Year from my house...where I am counting down the last 20 minutes of my 30s.

XM, ipod, and my wife on the phone.

I don't even have a credit card. Strictly cash for me. I try to keep enough of a reserve in case of a major repair or some other emergency, or to pay a driver for a small load while I'm waiting for payment.

I've pulled that a couple times. Both times I got the load from one company and the other company called me and told me that they lost it to someone cheaper. My bid was the same with both companies, so the company that gave me the load probably just took a smaller margin for it.

The cancellations are not the dispatcher's fault anyway. It's usually the shipper or the broker that is shopping around and will often cancel one carrier and give it to another if the other one comes along with a better rate. The dispatchers can't control that.

I have been seeing more cancellations lately, but what else I'm seeing is that the same load will show up in more than one place, so the shippers and/or brokers are shopping the loads around for the best rate, and it doesn't matter if one carrier is already booked when another comes in with a...

Nothing to add there. Right on the money.

They're not called wiggle wagons for nothing. It's an industry wide trend really. Larger trucks mean more stuff can be moved for the same pay to the driver. We're seeing a slightly different variation of the same thing in expedite where more and more smaller loads are being combined and run...

I have a pretty good idea what Mike is looking to do, so I will try to clarify a couple things here. Sometimes people say straight truck when talking about those small box trucks like you can rent at Ryder and whatnot that have small boxes on them and aren't always dock high. Some of those...

I went and looked in the medicine cabinet and it's the ACT flouride rinse that doesn't have alcohol. The mouthwash did have 11%. We have both products at the house and I've been using the non alcohol rinse on the road. I've never really paid attention to hygiene products though. I've always...

I've probably got enough for a coast to coast trip.

I use ACT. It doesn't have alcohol and is pretty good.

A man went to a restaurant and ordered eggs benedict. The waiter brought it on a hubcap instead of a plate. The man asked why his eggs benedict was served on a hubcap and the waiter replied, "There's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise." A former Communist party official named...

I will make a note to mention that to the owner, but at present he is otherwise occupied. The lazy sucker is sprawled on the couch watching movies with his feet propped up and his phone on vibrate. Maybe I can get ahold of him Friday.