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Your gonna need to be quite a bit more specific as to what kind of trucks your running, the types of runs your doing, and what kinds of savings your looking for. Operating a truck is fairly simple. You need a good dependable truck. Once you have that, the Lion's share of potential savings is...

I just dont see the advantage of a unit where you have to log and scale. Why not go ahead and get a ST ? The unit you descibe, as a gasser, will be lucky to get better mpg than a ST. You say 15mpg... can you prove it ?

You are correct in that they do show that empty weight on their website. BUT.... the website is wrong. The 10,000 gvwr units weigh about a thousand less than that. If you get the dually, you would have the weight of the extra tires, wheels and the fender extension. Its been a while since I...

I'm thinking pearlpro is a straight truck driver?

I replaced all of my visor lights with led. The originals with the bulbs were corroded and just constantly too much trouble. The led visor lights have worked out well. So, I had the five marker lights at the top rear of the box switched over to led also. I can't keep those freakin things...

A variation yes. I see that article as an explanation of the effects of SMS on you and your carrier. The theme of this thread would make a great follow up article.... explaining some of the easily avoidable things that are driving up the SMS scores.

Maybe that should be the title and topic of your article? Write it and I'll forward it to at least one safety director :D

I agree with Moot. Looks like it needs a few flashing lights on it. The truck has them over the cab, but I don't see any on the trailer. It needs some. It looks like a good, heavy load of snow in front of that plow would push the truck sideways.

MI was pretty high on the list for us too. I noticed several seatbelt violations also...what the heck is up with that? I did look at Landstar's scores. They are stellar.

After looking at my company's safety score, a few things stood out to me. 1. Nearly half of the unsafe driving violations were for speeding. A good portion of those were for 1-5 mph over. A good portion of them were also issued in the state of Indiana. From my experience, we don't travel in...

I got into a backup on 435 north side of KC one night last winter while they were tending to an accident caused by the snow. A couple of plow trucks came up behind me as we waited and as we pulled away, one (or both, can't remember now) of them looked similiar to this one (I notice the pic is...

I prefer H.W.S.T.F.i.d.o. Hit with stick then forget it drive on. But if you insist :D Good advice actually :D

I have a Nuvi 700 and that thing has been bulletproof. Its 3 or 4 years old now and has taken it's beatings well..lol. I do have to do a manual reset on it from time to time, but that's not a big deal (just slide the power button over and hold it for a few seconds...your manual should tell you...

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If you...or anyone for that matter... needs an extra oem FL battery box (mounts to the frame rails), I have one that I'm going to sell. It is all there except one of the angle iron mounting brackets and I might be able to come up with that...no promises though. It holds four batteries. I...

Thanks! That will be something that needs to be printed off and kept in the vehicle in case you need to make your case at roadside. I'm a litte confused about what your saying about the removal of the original tag. When I read the reg, I understand it to say that original tag has to stay on...

Thats odd. I talked to one of the DOT inspectors here and he told me the incomplete tag meant nothing... told me to tear it off if I wanted to.

Yeah but he makes lots of mistakes. Im told he keeps showing up way early at some of the deliveries :)

Ive stopped at a few of the kwiktrips and quicktrips. Ive found both to be very clean and very well operated. Ive only showered at one and it was spotless. Im sure they have some duds but for the most part, I like 'em!

lol.. If you only knew how well it is working out :) I can tell you this... it hauls furniture realy well :) Seriously, it's still sitting in the driveway. I haven't put it in service yet. I have bought a generator for it and a set of aftermarket seats. I have an idea of how want the...