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Any idea on the average cost of an accident that involves a truck carrying hazmat?

Are you interested in driving it or having someone drive it for you? Can you give more info on the van? Year? Model?

Good luck to you on your new old path.

They should have known better, now if the venison was confiscated from the hunters under the threat of imprisonment then there wouldn't have been an issue.

Denmark, TN TA. When I left the J in Waddy, KY this morning the vans and Sprinters were starting to pile up.

But is it accurate?

The multi carrier model usually isn't labeled as unethical despite the fact there are tons of stories about companies not paying, but it is labeled as a poor business plan.

They have overhead like any business but their ability to buy say 1 million pairs of jeans vs a mom and pop only getting 100 means they pay way more per pair.

I don't like it because it is just one more regulation, one more gotcha for the DOT to put you out of service. I really don't think the impact will be wide spread but will certainly hurt some drivers. I believe we can say with certainty that it will lead to cheating on log books and HOS...

It actually does make sense, Walmart has purchasing power that lowers their costs, bigger carriers have overhead that increases their costs.

No, Virgin roams off of Sprint's towers only and Sprint doesn't own many.

Some good news for February.

Usually a DUI is acceptable to a company after 10 years so you should be OK there but it will likely keep you out of Canada. I have researched going into Canada quite a bit because I used to be a real knucklehead and ended up with a criminal conviction. According to the information I found it...

It turns out I was in Charleston, TN at the Ponderosa Truck Stop, it is one of the few real truck stops left.

This video shows another angle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPiQ-jQcHF4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Paying for fuel is how you make extra money by exceeding the fuel surcharge MPG. There are many issues that can come up when the owner pays for fuel.

I have a raised roof condo Freightliner so I have windows at the top to let in light for the upper bunk. I still have the upper bunk in (no mattress) that I use as a shelf for storage, so I was thinking I could secure it up there.

Let's see where that odometer is at the end of March, my guess is 9258.

Somewhere in southern TN off of 75 at a small truck stop, not really sure where I am though.

Talladega has been mentioned to me before as a place to watch a race. My friend said that the banking of the turns is incredible.