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    Questions about expediting in a cargo van

    i have a sprinter van and on with egl and run mostly local and doing any where from 800 to 2800 a week and driving only a 1,000 miles a week and home every night avg week is about 1300 sometimes higher or lower depending if i work hard or goof off if the van is not moving not making money if...
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    New HOS and teams?

    so glad i sold my star and moved to sprinter as it's going to be hard on everybody maybe we should take 5 days off in sept and oct to show how unhappy we are if all the truck's stop for a week that would make a statement
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    Fuel

    were getting are a raise on surcharge on monday it's going up 1 percent more on 12th of aug they ask me if i would go louisville, ky for .90 cents a mile plus fuel surcharge, would do it for 1.60 a mile and fuel surcharge said customer won't pay that for 500lbs said call someone else
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    re-up?

    the price of diesel fuel jump 12 cents in 24 hours i think maybe go drive for waste management if i want to still drive when this van is out stop to get fuel sat and got fuel 5 min's before they raised the price 7 cents they had to wait for me to finish pumping before they could raise the price
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    Hobbies on the road.

    when i was running over the road had a few side lines, sold mary kay, lap tops , trucks new and use mason shoes, pc, mirrors, proheat genset windshield heater strips, hot shot window washer(heat up window wash) and few other things on to looked at each lay over as business opp last year ran road...
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    Truck value

    is that for one truck or both and that is high mileage, if your going to spend that much money on a use truck and is maintance record for the truck there for you to look at to see what maintance has been down on the truck and is how has pm's been done no maintance record's stay away from that truck
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    duals on sprinters

    if you have 4" cut out of the wheel wells as long as it is done by auth body shop you won't void the warranty it will cost around 1500 or so more or less than depending on the shop harris truck and body is one of shop that is able to do as they do alot of mod for dodge dealers in hampton roads...
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    PROHEAT NO AC PROBLEM

    when i had my western star and my fl60 i did a lot of testing for proheat for over 7 year's and also was a field rep for them but i don't know what they don't know what they do now and helped up grade the proheat for over 7 year's give bill moore a call at tsi in north jackson oh he has a web...
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    Flat Bed Freight

    fedexcc also has one out of washington state and also runs a refer van to and say it pay's when he does it
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    Back Pain ?

    one big thing is where is your wallet is it in you back pocket and your sitting on it if it is it is making sit off center and not sitting right take it out of your pocket sit it in a safe place and take it out and put it in your pocket only when you need it also how are your shoes if the heel's...
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    Landstar Express America

    if i hadn't gone with egl i would have gone with landstar express america they have a good program once you learn the in and out's you will do ok just have to learn the system like at any place you may go to once they get to know you and can count on you when you say you will do it and make...
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    Landstar and Qualcomm

    nextel is coming out with a new phone or chip to put in your phone and they will beable to pin point you if your on the tenth floor or moving on down the road and tell how fast your going and also trying to get dot approve for doing the logs on the nextel to egl use the cell phone with e mail...
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    Building the ultimate expediter

    if i had the money go with a western rv or sometime like the big tour bus all you need is hold 2 pallets and be could to go and have it all but pull in to customer and would see why it cost so much to ship freight this was ha ha
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    Buying route as o/o with FedEx?

    if you decide you want to take a day off you have to have someone cover your route and have to pay them to, and they have a big hand in your pocket to so i would check that out with most of expediters you come and go as you please they would like alittle notice that you are taking a couple of...
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    how many e-trac straps

    when i started out in c unit i had 4 bars and 4 straps and as i went along saw a need for more straps and other item's that would make life a bit easier had 2 etrack bars at the front of the box to protect from some of those forklift driver who wanted to run in to back of the box and they were...
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    Independent Contractor Route Rates

    when fedecc roberts express had mini van's they only hauled 500 lbs and 1500 in a mini van would be very over loaded and that type of miles wouldn't do it for less than 1.60 per mile and i'm in a sprinter van
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    Trucks & Cement Barriers - Who Wins?

    good show, did the driver walk away from that one
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    Flying J heated fuel .

    perfect temp for fuel is 55 degree's f, this is what the us navy uses when transfer fuel between ship's or planes as lower the temp the more fuel you get the warmer the fuel the less you get as in 80 degrees's the btu's is lower know fact so flying j is off my list of places that i will stop...
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    MAX PAYLOAD = 3728

    if it don't pay i won't haul it and if they want me to haul it they have to pay i agree with terry if you don't make them pay they will think they won't have to pay when i had my c unit on with fexcc i could haul 13,300 and one time i was at home and they ask me if i could haul 11,500 and i...
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    Scam Artists

    i like guy's who will work for food there are two of them that stand on a corner of shore drive in va ba va and people give them money i stop one day and offer to share my lunch with them and they got upset that i would do something like that they said we would rather have the money for food so...
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