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I wish I could find the article [Barron's, maybe?] but I've looked and I can't - yet. I understand that sales and income taxes go to the city & state, but what the city/state officials said is that after a year or so of welcoming WM with incentives, they found the tradeoff was not in their...

But it's not stress, when it's what makes you happy. Bless them - I couldn't do it, but I'm glad someone can. :D

The person who figures out how to replace Subway [et al] at truck stops with decent BBQ would make a killing, IMO, because drivers will pay for it. Even me, and I rarely 'eat out'. If I knew anything about opening a restaurant, [or making good BBQ, or hiring people, or licensing...] I'd do it...

Anyone who would make late delivery by refusing to chain up deserves to be terminated - they should not have accepted a load they may or may not 'feel like' delivering on time. What to tell the customers if no one accepts the load? That's how the free market works: try offering more money, see...

Let's see: a new to expediting fleet owner waiting for funds to buy a Sprinter - what could go wrong? Sorrry, Zfox, you don't even know what you don't know yet - beginning with the meaning of 'fleet owner'. Unless that Sprinter you're waiting to buy has some company: one van does not a fleet...

Anyone who has ever borrowed money to begin a new business and succeeded will tell you that you CAN borrow your way out of debt - it depends on how you spend the proceeds, is all. The Republican focus on the evil of debt is misguided at best and destructive at worst. Spending is a better issue...

Au contraire: we CAN borrow [and spend] our way out of debt. With judicious spending, investing the money in education [not football!], technology, and training, we can provide a stronger tax base that will in turn provide more money to repay what we owe. Short term targeted spending on low to...

When my kids were little, a lot of 'it's not fair!!!' tantrums were avoided by one simple tactic: one cuts the cake [or pie], the other gets first choice. The issues today are a result of letting the same people cut the cake and pick first slice. PS Only one of mine has turned 30, but they are...

Nice try at another nonresponsive deflection - not. Given the choice, I'd prefer borscht [hold the anchovies] to calzone any day.

Kind of interesting, how 'entitlements' has come to refer specifically to benefits that include unemployment and social security, which people are entitled to by virtue of having worked for them, but not those entitlements that are given to those who didn't earn them: corporate subsidies...

Some people post vague snarky comments with incorrectly chosen verbs because they lack the intestinal fortitude to speak clearly & the knowledge to speak correctly. If you have to be a copy cat, you need to at least understand correct usage of the words you choose to copy. And calzone was...

Re: AH September,Start of Football, Cooler Weather and Hotter Freight. So where are y Looks like no competition [from Load 1 - I did see a Panther S/T in the front lot] in Montgomery, Al. :D

Last time I took a load west in the winter, got stuck after delivery in Aspen, Co, for several days because a pass was closed. I figure the benefits of chaining are negated by the potential for road closures [that last for days] and I just don't go there [during winter months] anymore. Call me a...

Ditto for making the CSA penalty points retroactive when they rolled it out. The problem is that the feds are deluged with problem agencies much bigger than FMCSA - we're just little fish.

After learning how the insurance industry acts behind the smokescreens of their PR spun announcements, I don't believe their explanations or statistics, either. [I'm referring to their rate wars to capture the bottom of the barrel medical practitioners after everryone else was taken, followed...

Star, I disagree that the mandatory break is a minor issue, because it reduces the flexibility drivers need to take a break when circs warrant, not the clock, and the penalty for missing it [because there's no safe legal place to park] is just ludicrous. It seems minor, until you have to choose...

Lots of people agree with that, including me. Marie Gandron has been fired, and a petition to restore the library worker's job has garnered a LOT of signatures - and quite a few are liberals. Because the library is a favorite place of theirs/ours. It's just sad that the conservative Republicans...

This is hilarious: the whole structure of insurance is based on redistribution, and almost no one gets out of it what they've paid into it. I don't even want to know how much I've paid into workers' comp over the years, that someone else is getting the benefit of, because I've been fortunate...

"Rationalize his behavior"? "There is no stigma to being a scumbag or a homicidal maniac anymore"? Where ARE you reading such tripe?! I'd agree that the mainstream media contributes to the problem by giving the killers the attention they want, but when anyone complains they [the corporate...