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It had the exact opposite effect on me. :D

The last change [2004] made it worse, mandating 10 consecutive hours off, and eliminating the split sleeper provision, [forcing drivers to stay behind the wheel for 11, mostly]. The proposed changes are even worse yet: confusing in the extreme, and for no good reason at all. I'd like to see it...

Just being able to express a complaint or point out a glitch and have it addressed [!] immediately [!!] by someone who can do something about it [!!!] is priceless - thanks John. Whatever trivial nitpicky tasks can be shifted off the dispatchers' plates is a help - I can't imagine how many balls...

When laws are enacted restricting the communications of all commercial drivers in response to the actions of ONE driver [69 calls/texts in 24 hrs], while the fact that 84% of truck car crashes are the fault of the car is completely ignored, it doesn't seem as if logic has any part in lawmaking...

If you 'Google' it, you can compare prices.

Hi Black Jack [good name!] welcome. I'm with Mac - well, not literally, we haven't ever met, but I agree with him: this site is better when there's more participation. More experience, ideas, suggestions, personalities, viewpoints, conversations. I don't understand lurkers! Jump in anywhere...

Hey Lugnut: ever hear of 'The Peter Principle'? It 's what happens when people keep moving up to the next level in business until they reach the level of incompetence. [In a big corporation, or the government, they get to stay there.] Not everyone is qualified to move up, and not everyone who...

On to better things! Post photos of the Topkick if you get it, I'd like to see it. :)

Your wife [assuming you have one] when she finds you've developed an interest in 'helping' hookers, lol. Trafficking is the use of women [often brought to the US from third world countries under false pretenses] for prostitution. Just another of a brazillion problems we can't seem to fix, sigh.

When you find ways that work, post them [preferably with photos] because it might work for someone else, too. [If I hadn't seen Turtle's Sprinter with the passenger seat removed, it might not have occurred to me that it can be done.]

I'm looking forward to these: The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, Minneapolis, Mn The Old Courthouse Museum, Sioux Falls, SD [currently showing 'Underwear: a brief exhibition of the history'] The Law Enforcement Museum, Justice Center, Cleveland, Oh The Witch Dungeon & Witch History...

Can we say 'self fulfilling prophecy'? IMO, the wasted vote is the one you have to hold your nose to make, because it's the lesser of two evils, and that's all most of us have done for way too long. The 2 party system benefits by insisting a vote for a third party candidate is futile - isn't it...

Not solo any more - the owner recently 'persuaded' her to drive team, with another woman. She hasn't been a team long enough to know if it's going to work - there's always that 'honeymoon' period at first, before the irritations show up [and pile up, in most cases.]

The good news is that because it doubles the ding to carriers, it will get challenged. The rationale doesn't hold up: nothing says each team member is responsible for one inspection, pre or post, so the same driver can do both, and I'd bet they often do. CSA is a poorly conceived and executed...

Dr Paul is absolutely correct: why waste thousands of military lives [some of our best assets: young people!], brazillions of dollars, and the good will [potential, if not actual] of many other countries by waging all out war, when the Constitution has provided a solution for just such occasions...