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I'm in a 2007 Sprinter, the long one, with magnetic signs showing my name (Charles DeMaris) and MC#. I'm usually at the closest Flying J (free showers) but I like to frequent historic sites if they're not too much out of the way. I can also be found at state parks and the like, someplace with...

I've delivered there several times and never had a problem. They always make me back all the way into the building and then they close the door behind me once I'm inside, but I've never heard them complain.

If you accept a load for a certain rate, then you really don't have anyone to blame for what you're getting paid, but it would be nice to have a little transparency from the brokers. I would like to see what the shippers are paying so I would have an idea what the freight is really moving at...

I have a 2007 and it's not too bad with a load in the back. Empty it gets a little fun. I just take it nice and slow. I used to have an E-350 and I think my Sprinter handles a little better, but I don't know if there's a van out there that's great on snow when it's empty.

When I was looking at getting into this business I called Landstar because I had heard good things about them. At the time they were requiring so much OTR experience and they weren't taking any more vans. They apparently have limits about how many of each vehicle type they lease on. It...

It might not be productive, but I think the reason so many of us choir members whine to each other is just to get things off our chests. On a brighter note, I just picked up at a place and the guy complained about loading a van (good timing considering this discussion) and I think I was rather...

This topic has me thinking about the supposed shortage of van freight. All you read on here is that you just can't make it in a van anymore, that there are too many of them out there and that there just aren't enough loads for all of them. Now there might be some truth to that, but I can't...

The shipper I was dealing with had the proper paperwork for the load, which is how I caught that it was hazmat to start with. The skid was all wrapped up and you couldn't see the labels on the boxes underneath all the shrink wrap. I honestly think they were just hoping the driver wouldn't look...

Definitely go for it. We need more trucker friendly reps in government, with the likes of PATT and CRASH spreading all their misinformation. It's gotten pretty ridiculous. I don't even drive a big truck but I see all the time how cars are clueless around them and then when one is involved in...

Re: CPM I guess I ought to be careful, but the other night I was about to pass through Harrisburg on the way to Philly and there was a single piece picking in Harrisburg and going to Philly. I was six hours ahead of schedule and the Harrisburg load was picking up in an hour. I did the math...

Tha's darn tempting. I have some possibilities for some local contracts and my wife has said she would do some local driving if I could find the work. If I get a couple contracts nailed down it might be worth it.

In the first case I mentioned, I had delivered and picked up from both places before and they hadn't had a problem with it then.

I can understand if a company has a policy or something, but when it's a place I've been to before it seems inconsistent to now say they can't accommodate me.

I arrived at a shipper a few months ago and they loaded me up before I got the paperwork. Then when I got the bill and was checking all the information on it, I noticed that the load was hazmat, which apparently they had not bothered to tell the broker I got the load from. I asked the broker...

Maybe I'm still too new to this business and this is old news to some on here, but there is something that is beginning to really tick me off. It's this insistence of some shippers on dock high equipment to move a load that is sometimes one or two pallets and under a ton when the shipper has...

I'm not too worried about the railroads taking over. I'm parked at a Wal Mart and I think those are dock doors in the back and it doesn't look like there are railroad tracks leading to the docks either. Trains can move a lot of freight across country, but it still has to get from the rail...

I find talking with a hands free less of a distraction than talking to a passenger, but that's just me. I think if I had to deal with a QC, I'd have thrown the darn thing out the window by now. A phone seems to be quite adequate for conveying information and it's more cost effective as well...

I don't want a babysitter, and when I have other drivers leased on, I won't be one either. I expect drivers to be adults. If you need a babysitter, you're in the wrong business.

The first carrier I drove for, Rush out of Dayton Ohio, used Nextel. We had those bulky Motorola phones with two way push to talk and all the load information came over as a text. You could use those things while out of the vehicle as well, which was nice. That was just local courier work, so...