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That's one of the reasons I got my authority, that and I was tired of all the deadheading. Anyway, even with that, things have been a bit slow recently. Slow as far as number of runs, but the income hasn't been too awfully bad, but I digress. When I'm home, or when I'm on the road and have...

Most of them will have those little bars of soap you get at a motel and some of them have a liquid soap dispenser on the shower wall, but I always go in there with my own fully stocked shower bag. They will also let you and your husband use the same one for one price. The times my wife has...

I paid $4.11 in Albany the other day.

Yep, knee jerk reaction to the mistaken notion that climate change is something that humans cause. The earth has been going through warming and cooling cycles for centuries, long before humans were driving around the planet. What's going to happen in a few years when we realize that all the...

Yep, it's pretty slow just about everywhere. I've done two loads in the last week. Both were decent runs, but they've been sandwiched around a fair amount of sitting.

Speculating on the futures market. Get rid of that and you at least fix part of the problem.

I've come across loads like down there from time to time, but I don't go down there that often. There are a lot of problems with rates being low, but often it's the rate to the driver that's so darn low. Sometimes it's a pretty good sized cookie jar that comes from the shipper and by the time...

There aren't many, but one I've been to a couple times is in Wilton, NY, just north of Saratoga Springs on I-87. It doesn't have a lot of amenities, but the showers have been clean the couple times I've used them and they don't cost an arm and a leg either. There's not much parking in front of...

I find the little interservice jabs kind of amusing myself. I had two uncles who were in different branches and they were always doing that, but let anyone criticize the military in general and they would stick together and rip that person a new one. I never served but I have an immense...

If it was me, I'd still get in there early and try my luck. You never know. But I would be looking for some detention pay. You never know what you might be missing out on by not being available those few hours.

Everything east of Arizona on a regular basis. Now here's something odd. When I first got in I always heard about these areas that everyone wants to avoid because you sit forever when you're there. I always heard people telling me don't go to the northeast. But it seems that every time I go...

I never served, but have had several family members who did. My paternal grandfather was in the 101st and was in Europe from '44 to the end of the war. He never talked about it, but I know he saw quite a bit of action. My other grandfather was in the Navy but never left Norfolk. They...

I will be home, plan on getting a load back to the house by Thursday of that week. I still try to keep fairly active with my home church, singing with the choir as often as I can get home, and living in Cincinnati I get home quite a bit because of the volume of loads I can usually get heading...

Well, it's still just me at the moment. Anyway, I'm not really thinking about expanding right now with the way freight is. I don't need to try to do things too fast and get ahead of myself. When I get to that point, I want to keep drivers busy. It doesn't matter how driver friendly I am and...

Saw it for $3.89 in PA and thought it was a ripoff. Then I drove a little farther and saw a Pilot in Erie for $4.05. I think the sign was alternating between $3.99 cash and $4.05 for credit. It almost makes you long for the good old days of $2.00 a gallon diesel. I never thought I'd see the...

I like to have some sort of balance, within reason. Something about all work and no play and what it does to Jack. What I try to do is save a little time here or there if I'm heading into an area where there might be something interesting to do there, but if there is a hot good paying load...

Those of us in vans don't have quite the same problems, but I had a guy knock on my window at a rest area north of Albany and inform me that New York has a law against idling and I would have to shut my engine off. This guy wasn't a cop or anything, just some regular schmoe who had stopped at...

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It's New York. If gas was cheap I'm sure they'd find something else to complain about.

I'm in Charleston at the moment, well close to Charleston. Sitting at a Pilot off 26. I was in Jacksonville for the weekend and got something short up here. I'm not complaining about the weather, but I sure want to get moving tomorrow. My wife is not as patient as I am and if a day goes by...