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Happy Birthday John, hope it is a great one.

Hanging out at a hotel in San Antonio. Wombat you did make sure they have you showing in service right? Just a word to the wise always do a mac 19 and make sure something comes back if not call dispatch and check.

I am one heading for Laredo, not due off until Sunday but I will probably be there sometime Saturday. Guido you can get a room there for like 35 bucks a night might be cheaper than idling and more comfortable.

That reminds me, you get the air fixed yet? :D

One contradiction I noticed is you want to keep deadhead down and loads shorter. The shorter the loads the higher your deadhead percentage will be in general. For example you do a 400 mile load and drive 70 miles to your next pickup or do a 1200 mile load and drive 100 miles to your next pickup...

If this is the case wouldn't the truck itself be the biggest tool you are providing them? Going by your interpretation they need to also pay you for use of the truck.

There is no law saying a company has to give one penny of a fuel surcharge to drivers. Back to needing that pesky contract. I would think any courier company would have a contract drivers sign, it could be the only thing to protect them in court under varied circumstances.

I did not mean that at all. Honest guys can indeed have negative things to say but they also give you both sides of the coin, By negative I meant those who are whiners and are not happy with anything they do. It had zero to do with any comments on this board. You will have the guys who say...

In the 90's I started driving for a courier company, then became a dispatcher and finally ops mgr. We had about 60 drivers all independents of course. Some guys made 300 a week some guys made 700. It was a lot like expediting in the respect of having good and bad weeks. We only had a few routes...

Finally got a run, not huge but paid great! Brought me down to Indy so I went ahead and signed out of service for the day so I could be home to see my daughter off to prom. She is one of the girls nominated for Prom princess so it was nice to be able to be here. Thanks to dispatch for hooking me up.

You want to have a java runtime on your computer. It is used for web scripting, games, chats small programs and many things.

The shop got me fix up Thursday morning fast! I don't think they had it in the bay more than 45 minutes. I am slowly creeping up in the standings was up to #4 not long ago so still holding out hope for today, I need some miles nothing for this week yet because of the wait for the repair. Todd...

People would just use the switch for things it is not meant to be used for, some carriers could also pressure drivers to take loads over their hours and tell them to switch it off. I could see a lot of reasons where this would defeat the purpose of requiring them.

LDB pretty much said it all. I think I will by it when I need it. Waiting another day probably just means the price will be higher anyway.

To answer those that asked, the sprinter tech at the dealer is out until Thursday so I have a morning appt. I found another place that could do it this morning but the phone conversation just did not give me that warm fuzzy felling so I decided to wait. Worked out ok doing some web site edits...

Gingrich has very little chance, to many skeletons in that closet.

Well all you can do sometimes is laugh at your luck. Right after my last post dispatch called with a load out of the yard going to Laredo! That is my favorite place to take a load to especially early in the week, might set for a few days when you get there but by the end of the week you almost...

Last week was a very slow one for me. I cannot complain I have done well but still a little bummed. Spent part of the weekend at the yard and Sunday moved to Beaverdam to be first out. Did get one call today to see if I had an interest in one going to DC which of course I was. Then they asked if...

About the only ting I like about Romney is he was actually a business man. I do feel he will just be part of the good old boys network. Romney care doesn't bug me that much because although it has been pretty much a failure it was done at the state level as such things should be. Not a...

Sue one of the big problems with this country is to many rules being made because they make a person feel good about doing something they think helps others. These almost always end in disaster or cause problems that were never considered because on the surface it sounded good. We cannot rule...