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Which is why I don't mess with it. I just don't want the hassle. It would have been nice to know this going in, but the the carrier that brokered the load to me wasn't informed either. They sounded as surprised as I was.

I've only used Howe's so far and it works pretty well. I haven't tried the other, so I really can't comment.

I have a driver picking up a load this morning, and when he's on the phone with me giving me pieces and weight and BOL #, he mentions that there is a hazmat charge on the bill. I had him scan the bill in and send it to me and sure enough, it's hazmat and it's 1430 pounds. I don't have...

Reading that just made my day.

Well, I finally broke down and got a Tom Tom, if you count beating the Stacker game at the Flying J and getting the free one that was hanging there as one of the major prize choices. It's pretty good for the most part, but it does give some goofy routes at times and it seems to really like to...

Does your company also pay you 100% of the load revenue?

I was first out with my company, turned down three loads, and remained first out. Of course my dispatcher is the most understanding person I have ever met.

It varies with me. I probably get home more than most people, but as an independent it's easier to cherry pick. I'm usually out as long as it takes to get the next decent paying run back home. I live in a good freight area, so home is often a good place to get a load out of. Sometimes I...

For those who don't know, I am married to a Kenyan. Today we celebrated Thanksgiving with a house full of Kenyans, most of them Luo, the same tribe as my wife and our new President elect. For the most part, it was a typical Thanksgiving, except that the food was a mix of American and Kenyan...

Offer still stands for anyone laid over near Cincinnati. There's a Wal Mart parking lot two miles from my house.

I'm thinking there should be a union shop surcharge automatically added on if you have to either pick up or deliver at one of them. I've been doing short runs today and I've had the good fortune to deliver to two union shops in one day. I'm sitting here backed up to a ramp with nothing but a...

I'm going to be sleeping in a nice warm bed in my nice warm house tonight. Of course I have to get up around 4:00 to head down to Louisville and deliver the load I brought out of New York Friday night, but a couple nights in your own bed will work wonders.

I haven't hauled much automotive lately. I've still been hauling things, not as much as this time last year, but there is still freight. Maybe this will force more expedite carriers to start looking at all avenues of freight instead of just sitting around wiating for those lucrative NLM loads.

I should have mentioned that the particular load in question was listed as "exclusive use expedite." If someone is combining a bunch of those, that's not very exclusive. I'm with you as far as combining LTLs though. I've done quite a bit of that and I've even combined two expedites that...

I see where you're coming from, but it's just darn frustrating when you see expedites going for that kind of money. A year ago I would have taken that load and been happy about it, but when things are slower and you see yourself losing bid after bid to people who are either combining loads and...

And you know how to tell if your wife is cheating on you with a Swift driver. You come home a week later and the guy is still trying to back out of your driveway.

and backhaul. All things that a lot of naive people believe in but that actually don't exist. When you tell a child that Santa isn't real, you are explaining how things work in the real world, and that's what this post is. We're talking about the real world. In mythical backhaul land...

What's a backhaul? I thought all freight is driven forward, from one location to another.

I will be home. We will also have a couple empty chairs at the table that are open if a driver or a couple happen to be laid over in the Cincinnati area. It will be a mixture of traditional American fare and African food.

My first thought upon meeting Turtle was that he looked exactly like I thought he would. Scary, isn't it?