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Ryder seems to have a few decent-looking 2007 Sprinters. At $14-15k, would they be worth a look, or too old? I don't want to consider any 2008 or newer ones, because that's when the sh*t starts to hit the fan as far as reliability goes. Idk if my carriers have age restrictions, but if not, an...

Independence, KS to Muncie, IN overnight. Got some sleep at the J in Spiceland; now OOS and enrt to Pittsburgh to make plans with our daughter concerning living arrangements.

Pulled it off, by a combination of God's grace, Dollar General prices, my wife's ingenuity, and the wonderful gift of Sunday buffet bought for us by one of Murray's Marauders :D:cool: ...who shall remain nameless so that he isn't swamped by other down and out vanners ;) Wife decided to...

Bixby, to be precise. Then back to the J in Tulsa, where we'll sit until Tuesday and try to feed two people on $53 until that time.

Yes. If I were dumb enough to deadhead 750 miles out of Minneapolis, I would head for PA, not Tulsa! :p

Going to Tulsa area

I'm going to April :)

48 CPM for an employee, who has few expenses beyond food and laundry, isn't a bad deal. Does anyone out there in shipper land realize the expenses an owner-operator has? Furthermore, do they even care? No.

Thankfully I am the owner, so it would've been my whole 54¢. Still, when does the bloodletting stop?

Lost a MN to VA weekend run; found out from a friend in the office that the load went for .63 gross. Gross. In other words, about .54 to the truck. What kind of bullsh*t is that? Even worse, there's word of a guy that couldn't get out of Laredo for a quarter per. Excuse me? For that kind of...

St. Cloud, MN.

Back in Fargo.

Wasn't the work that scared me off, it was the 394-mile commute each way :D

Meanwhile, in your home state it's a balmy 18° in Sioux Falls :rolleyes:

Sorry to hear this, Xiggi. My wife and I will both be praying for you.

Thanks. Only seriously busy area within 250 miles of here is Minneapolis, and that's full of vans that didn't get out before the storm. Home? 1300 miles if an inch. Kinda kills the urge to deadhead :rolleyes:

Back in service, have SD to myself. Ken, stay away! Meanwhile, window fixed properly, mirror fixed hillbilly style.

I deliberately avoided going through Minneapolis because I didn't want to be in a major city when hell broke loose. Based on what I know now, the freight should have spent one more day on the dock:(

We are, but the wallet is bleeding profusely :( Safelite appointment tomorrow at the J, then we'll go back at it. Problem was the ice underneath the snow. I've been told that SD is poor at pretreating roads; I guess so. I'm bummed about this, cos I really like South Dakota:cool:

Juju must have shaken the rugs too hard; I slid off the road at the Brandon exit (406) on 90. Killed three delineators, a mirror head and the passenger side window. Tomorrow morning, I'll have to swap out the load, then get the window fixed by Safelite and jerry rig a mirror. Just thankful to...