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And that's fine with me, because I get my pick of all the loads folks turn down from their carriers, and those carriers usually pay me more to do them than they would have had to pay their own driver. So y'all can keep turning down those 200 mile runs and I'll keep doing them for $400-$600...

Not every load is a home run. Most of the time I'm just trying to get on base and if there's a fat one right over the plate, then I'm swinging for the fences. If I've had a couple home runs lately, I'd be more inclined to take that cheap thing if it's headed to a good area. I try to average...

99% of the time I'm not taking that load for anything, unless I've been out for a month and it's going within a few miles of my house on a Friday or a day before Christmas, Thanksgiving, my anniversary, or my birthday. .83 a mile with the payment I have on this van doesn't leave much profit...

I wasn't really saying that I find it disrespectful, but that I just don't feel comfortable wearing them myself because I didn't serve. That's just me. If a person in the military were to give me something like that, I might think differently, but I'm not going to buy them myself.

I understand that these items are sold to people who generally have a sense of respect for the organizations they represent. With that said, I can't bring myself to buy them, especially the military ones. I don't feel I've earned something with a military branch logo on it since I didn't serve.

Well, if I get back home I'll be there. I live about 45 minutes from Wilmington.

Interesting that someone working on dark matter would have the last name of Soot.

Lonely moose, it's been a while...anything with four legs starts to look good.

When talking to people outside of the trucking industry, I don't use the term expediter. In truth, I don't always do expedited freight. I just get whatever is paying me enough to run. I did an LTL the other day that paid $700 to go 500 miles. It wasn't that urgent a time frame to qualify as...

Is that what happens on a long layover in Vegas?

Just don't take any of the free samples, just in case you get a load.

Read, read, and read some more. I always keep plenty of books handy. Books, DVDs, and business paperwork usually keep me busy. I like to go to parks and walk when the weather's nice and if I'm near the coast you will find me on the beach. Right now I'm in Lincoln, NE spending the weekend at...

I think the dirty word filter is pretty funny how it will block letters within a word instead of just looking for the word on its own. And it's not like this word is really a cuss word. What about a rooster or something you do with a gun?

Can I have the time back I spent reading this thread?

Hey, quiet about the Monopoly money ok? If the truck stops and gas stations find out... Actually, I think I have been busier since I got my authority, simply by being able to pull from more sources for loads. Anyway, I ran for several months exclusively for Prestige and I didn't do too bad...

So am I to understand that the money I've been making in my Sprinter is not real money and that the runs I've been doing are a figment of my imagination? If there's no work out there for vans, what have I been doing these last few months? Wasting my time apparently.

That's baaaaaaaad.

The last time I was there I dropped a load at one of those warehouses over there. It must have taken me 35 minutes to get back over to the J for a shower.

Sprinter. And I'll second what was said about independents not being stuck with the silly rules about long runs for solos. I can take those 1000+ mile runs out of there without worrying about being told to swap it out with another driver after 700 miles or so.

I'm a solo and I always get out of there pretty fast. I'm independent too, so maybe that's different. The last time I was there my layover was something like five hours.