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The last time I was in the Newark area I think I went back toward PA on I-78 and stayed at a TA. I think it was around exit 7. There were also a couple places around exit 13 or thereabouts as well. That's as much as I can remember since it's been a couple months since I was around there.

I place at least some of the blame on the speculators. When I hear on the radio that oil is trading at such and such a barrell, it seems that the speculating is a major contributor to keeping the price high. Folks are making a lot of money trading on commodities like oil.

I must have gotten the only decent set of Continentals out there. I have 71k on my '07 and I'm still on the original set of tires. There is still a decent amount of tread left and they've worn evenly so far. My only complaint is snow driving. I had Firestones on my previous van (E-350) and...

I will occasionally run cheap junk, but only if I'm in a bad area and there's something running to a better spot. When I was leased on to a carrier, I was one of those people who would run darn near anything because I had this notion that if I ran some junk then they would reward me with a good...

I have never showered at a Pilot. Being a van driver, the J is the only one I'm aware of that lets van drivers earn showers, so I tend to seek them out and if I'm in a city that doesn't have a J I'll look for the next place I can find. I have seen all kinds of things when I've observed a...

My wife said pretty much the same thing, that it's not out of loyalty for their own people that they give them first shot but because their profit is larger for what they keep in house. Either way though, it's an improvement over what I've heard about them in the past. I can say from the...

I have seen quite a bit of Panther bashing on here and I have been guilty of a lot of it myself over the last few months, mostly repeating things I have heard from other drivers and what not. Now I was never leased to them or anything, but since I got my authority I have run a few of their...

I agree with you, but sometimes you see a load with a timeframe that qualifies it as expedite, and it's on an expedite board where most of the loads are paying quite well, and then some bloke comes in there and bids .50 just to undercut everyone. I don't have a problem with non urgent freight...

I guess by cheap I mean anything under a dollar, usually non urgent LTL loads, the stuff that shippers and brokers think should "ride along" with something else. You call about a load and they say, "it's only a partial." When I hear those words, I normally just get the heck off the phone...

I think about the worst shower I ever saw was some place on the New York toll road. I went in there and walked right back to the fuel desk and asked for my shower money back. I think this place was fairly close to Albany if I remember right, but I don't run in that area too often.

I do a lot of broker loads and you can find good paying ones. You just have to dig around for them. There's a lot of cheap junk out there that isn't even worth starting your engine for. I can't stand uship because a lot of the people listing stuff on there just don't communicate fast enough...

Right now it seems that things are so darn unpredictable, but I've always gotten out of Wisconsin, especially the southern part of the state. There are a lot of other factors to consider as well. I've always had good luck in Dallas, but the last time I was there I saw a lot of Sprinters at the...

The Sprinter definitely is a bit costly. I paid 40k for my '07. I got the extended version. I used about 42" for my sleeper (built it myself) and left 12 feet for cargo. When I built the sleeper, I took out the steel bulkhead that was in there and build another wall where I wanted it out of...

You're not the only one. If you can't find your way from one city to another with an atlas, you shouldn't be in this business. I use my laptop to find the specific address within the city and the atlas to get from city to city. It works fine for me.

I think a lot depends on where you get your loads. Some carriers just love those one way deals. The first carrier I leased to did mostly local stuff and if you got something long they were asking you how soon you'd be back in town after you dropped. Then I switched carriers to try to cut down...

Yep, that is true. I've done pretty well recently and I've gotten to see a lot of places that I would not have seen otherwise.

Cincinnati Bell has been offering nationwide unlimited for a while now. That's what I'm on and it's well worth the $100 a month just not having to count minutes.

It is a great way to see the country. The only problem is that the whole country looks pretty much the same after dark.

I don't think 1500 is that much of a miracle. It's a bad week when I don't get 1500. I'm in a Sprinter with space for three pallets. This week I'm going to finish with 2100 miles when I drop out on Sunday night and that's with three days at home. That much home time isn't normal but this...

The biggest variable is the number of miles you run in a month. If I do 10k miles in a month, with fuel being what it is now, my cpm is roughly .34 a mile. That's with a Sprinter that does pretty well on fuel though. The biggest mistake I made when I started out was that I would look at just...