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Sorry to hear about your car. How was the house? Floods are devastating. We've had some rough one's here the last few years. Property can be replaced though.

Getting there. For clarification, do you own the van or will you be driving someone else's van leased to Rush? A good number for empty miles is 20%. Fuel surcharge is how the carriers offset the fluctuations in fuel price. My straight truck was being paid $1.25 per loaded mile + 32 cents per...

If you want any kind of decent answer, you'll have to provide some specifics of your agreement with the company you'll be working for. There are ALOT of threads on here discussing these things. Use the search function at the top right of the web page. Spend some time researching. Then you will...

It is a tough job to find the right company and the right fleet owner. You have to seek out a lot of people and a lot of information. Then you have to sort through all of that information to find the real truth. And the good news? After all that, it's still a toss up...lol. It aint easy....but...

If you just have the one ticket and want to see what points were assessed, you can go to the SMS website and use your company's dot # to pull up their info. In each measurement category, there is a listing of the invidual citations along with the scores assessed. Takes a little digging but you...

It will only get worse with time. Find somebody else to drive for. Spend some time here and do some research. Without knowing details of your contract, not a lot can be said. Im betting though, you can do better.

Great Post by the way. As for the dispatcher spending time on the road. It would help no doubt, but the better dispatchers have a respect for the drivers even without the experience of being on the road. I've had dispatchers tell me before "we know what you guys have to deal with to get this...

Sorry bud...thought surely she would let you claim at least PART ownership. :D I thought my old Mark Palmer Columbia should have been famous. It was when I bought it..lol.

Yep...and of course, many leave the business or whatever. The one I'm thinking about wasn't struggling though and even seemed to be looking forward to the future although he was a fairly new poster. I'm going to check up on him if I can. I know we traded some pm's and I think he even called me...

Always a shame. I wonder how often it happens and we don't find out about it. I've been curious about another member who hasn't posted in a good while, used to be a regular.

They fell from grace right after Greg failed there.

I'll guess....$750?

Well, if ya got it, flaunt it...what I was told..lol....pallet licker :)

I guess your definition of net gain is different from mine. My definition would include all of the negatives and the positive. I guess my larger point is. When did we become a nation of whining, moaning sobbing little school girls? Take the bad with the good, grab your boot straps and swallow...

My opinion is I dont want to lease to a carrier that makes rules over and above the federal regs. Having to worry about starting the clock....in a van...is truly stupid.

No pictures....please. As far as the pallets....like I said. It's a non-issue. What Ive got will maximize everything I have available so from that point either it fits or it dont. I'll be about 50-3/4 wide, same as the wheel wells. Thanks for the input.

Are you serious? Guess I left that out of my calculations :D pallet licker :D

Yeah, I do actually have a few extra inches on each of those load lengths. Varies from about 4 to 6 depending on the position. Chris, I will. Mine is fabricated from the rear doors to behind the seats. I wanted a bulkhead behind the bed and movable. It will have some weight to it, so it's...

BS .... a net gain is a net gain regardless of how small or how large or how it came about. That pretty much applies to every response you just made. IMO of course.

True. Thanks. BTW...if I call Highway Star a pallet licker....is that a bad thing? :D