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At home in Florida again. A great January. 10795 miles. Over 15K gross. And home for 2 - 3 day weekends. Sure is nice to be out of the snow. High today will be 71.

If you are a solo you are foolish to give that up at this time.

Still running well for January. Up to $12k so far and was home for 4 days over MLK weekend.:)

I had the same thought last year. Buy 2 new Sprinters with sleepers, get 2 good H/W teams and make lots of money. Do the research and the math and you will quickly discover that the money (if any) just ain't there.

Our MBE 4000 with 10 speed ultrashift is running 1310 RPM's at 65 MPH. Our fuel mileage was 9.3 mpg last year. We do not have an APU so that includes idle time. Howes Meaner Cleaner seemed to boost our MPG by about .5 mile per gallon.

Surprisingly (to me) still at home in Florida. Came home on Friday to thaw out, wash the truck, watch football and get our IFTA stickers. Didn't expect much over the 3 day weekend. Tuesday only got a few low paying load opps. At least it is warm here. High today of 73.

We would go broke in a hurry if we tried running our straight truck at van rates. If our carrier wants to put a van load on our truck they will still have to pay us the rate we need to operate or we will pass on that load.

Re: CV rates and logging It applies to this quote from the OP. "Why should some masked bandit..unmarked under the radar expect to get professional level rates when they are shurking, taking short cuts and not having the same expenses as someone who is being more professional and taking this...

Re: CV rates and logging There will always be drivers, brokers, shippers, etc., that will skirt the rules to put another buck in their pocket. Unfortunately it will be the driver that ends up with the fines when they get caught.

I think we are already starting to see the promised driver shortage. A lot of people are trying to get out of this business and a lot do not want to get into this line of work. All of the new regulations, CSA 2010 and proposed changes to Hours of Service regulations are chasing good people out...

$400,000 a year? That has to be the highest grossing straight truck in the fleet. Sure would like to meet them sometime.

For the first 2 weeks of the year we did $8520 for 6002 dispatched miles and got to come home this weekend. This is in a surface D unit.

I am not having any problem. Try logging in through this link. https://oo.blue.fedex.com/us/owneroperator/myaccount/default.shtml

I just tried it again. Worked fine. And I am using Chrome.

I just tried it and it worked fine. Did you remember to update your password? Option 9 then option 8.

I think this whole program is just another way to get money out of unsuspecting owner operators. Maybe you can save a few bucks on fuel discounts using the ES fuel card or on group insurance. Or maybe not. It is hard for me to believe that ES can get a bigger fuel discount then FedEx. And if you...

We had the Centramatics pulled off at the Petro in Waterloo, NY. They did it for free.:) It turns out we have heavy duty brake drums with 22.5 steel wheels. The Centamatics were being squeezed between the wheel and the brake drums wheel stops. It caused an indentation that cracked and let the...

Layout, I was a photographer in the Army. A few years ago I sold all my 35mm gear, 3 camera bodies, 9 lenses, a complete color dark room and a studio lighting set up. I now have a Nikon D40 and 2 lenses. An 18 to 55 zoom and a 55 to 200 zoom. I can pretty much cover everything I want to shoot...

We hate the new voice. Please bring back the old one.

Since Monday a.m. Rochester to Indy. Nitro, WV to Albany. New Jersey to Buffalo. Snow all the way. White outs, unplowed roads and accidents everywhere. We have gone through 5 gallons of washer fluid in 4 days.:eek: Now at the J in Corfu, NY.