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You failed to mention the initial start up costs of your TVAL truck. Those fully loaded trucks do not come cheap. Why would anyone spend the money for one if they were going to run at the same pay as a dry van? When we were TVAL contract drivers for a fleet owner we had to run at a higher rate...

We are a team running surface expedite for FedEx. (I also run solo for a few weeks every couple of months so that my wife and I can have a break from each other.) We see a lot of opps coming out at rates between $.70 and $1.20 all miles. We can not profitably run these loads. I wonder too...

Glad to see ya here. Come back often and share your knowledge. We could all benefit from your experience.

The T/A in Kenly, NC had them in stock on 5/25.

At home in Lake City, FL until June 7. Everyone have a nice holiday.:)

I've known of this law for a couple of years. I was told that if I was in any of the boroughs of NYC and I was run into that I would be cited at fault because I was not supposed to be there. Don't tell the NYC cabbies or they will be plowing into us to try and collect insurance money.

Welcome to Florida. My wife and I are both natural born natives and think it is a great place to live. You need to look into the Florida Homestead Exemption for your property tax breaks. Also, if you decide to buy a new truck and use that address you will have to pay 6% sales tax. Florida...

We get 9.5 to 10 mpg. Freightliner Columbia, MBE 4000, 10 speed auto shift. We run the speed limit. At 65 we are only turning 1200 rpm's.

Pauls Smokehouse in Titusville, FL. On US1 on the river directly accross from Kennedy Space Center. Best Prime Rib and French Onion Soup I've ever had.

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim. It's pronounced "Gonna re-elect 'em," and it is a terrible obamanation. The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior...

T/A in Baytown, TX. A guy comes up to me and shows me his drivers license to prove he has a CDL. Needs money to get home cause his co driver was an as***** and left him behind. Great story teller. Guy hasn't bathed in awhile, looks hungry and tired. I looked at his CDL and it had expired 5...

I agree that there should be some type of directional dispatch for home time. The way I see it, a truck could put in for a home time load after being out at least three weeks. This would make it fair to everyone. It would not be to hard for the system to have a search criteria put in that...

Baytown, TX at the T/A on a <75 due to the same run cancelling twice yesterday. Last week was good for us 3792 dispatched miles with less than 20% deadhead.

About an hour after posting this I received a call from an employee of FedEx verifying that I was the poster and asking for additional information. (I had also left a message on the suggestion line) This employee agreed that this should not be happening and wanted to forward my post to someone...

If it were not for debt collectors I wouldn't have anyone to talk to.

We have been running non stop since Monday.:)

It would be really nice if dispatch would stop sending out load opportunities at 0330 on a Saturday morning for a load that does not pick up until 1600 on Monday. We stay in service and will gladly run a go now run at that time, but to be awakened for something like the above mentioned...

Elk Grove Village, IL

Ice Cream:)

We have a 24 foot box that can easily take 12 skids. Most of our runs are 2-6 skids, but by having that extra capacity we have been able to take loads that 20 foot and under boxes could not handle. The truck is a Freightliner Columbia with the factory 72" condo sleeper. H/W team and we stay...