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Need more info, please: if what you mean is the complete list of "canned messages", each carrier has a different list.

EZ formula: Amps x 120 = watts

Kanga, if you really believe that customers offer 'good' loads, after drivers take the 'bad' ones, you're not just drinking the kool-aid, you're taking a bath in it, I think. Customers offer cheap loads because they don't like paying fair rates, and I doubt they get more generous, next time. As...

Yes, OVM, I did. Possibly out of the frying pan & into the fire, taking a load to San Francisco, (but only 4 miles DH to the shipper!), and I turned down 2 loads that didn't meet my objectives, lol. I have zero miles for last week, sigh, but I kept expenses to a minimum, sitting in the truck...

I would drive for either Dave or Leo, in a heartbeat, if either of them would take a solo - because they "get it". It's a bilateral relationship, with risk and reward for both parties. The risks that owners assume are obvious, but drivers assume risks too: that the owner will be available...

Agree with Greg: while safety and on-time ratings are a necessary parameter of performance, availability and acceptance should not be. The use of acceptance ratings, particularly, is skating on employee territory: if an 'independent contractor' is penalized for declining a load that doesn't...

A "pass out couch"? Puh leeeze - considering how badly some guys aim, (when they're presumably sober, even) what would be the point? :rolleyes: I'm imagining, now, the looks on the faces of a couple guys who both managed to pass out on the couch, though - when they wake up...:eek::eek::eek:

Because we have 'delicate natures', uh huh. :D Ok - it's because we sometimes start chatting about men, and we get to laughing so hard that we just collapse in hysterics, and need time to recover our composure before we can leave the room. Well, you asked! :p

GTG, that reminded me of one of those "only in trucking" moments, that might hold an answer: when I was new enough to answer that knock in the night, it was a woman, claiming to need money for food. I said "Ok, hang on" and rummaged around, then handed her a handful of peanut butter crackers...

[, God will protect you and U will know with ur feeling if somthing is realy wrong. If that were true, no one would die, or be injured, at the hands of a lunatic - they'd know to get away, or scream for help, before it got too far. Sometimes, we have a "hinky" feeling, but so many times...

I thought he (we're not supposed to call him Marvin anymore, remember?) was driving team, in a t/t.....:confused: But hey - even I got a load out of Salt Lake City, finally!

Paraphrasing Pjjjj's spot-on tagline: "It's what you do, when not legally obliged, that determines your ilk"

When I read that, yesterday, I went to the AT&T site, as they were mentioned as having begun prorating their early termination fees - and they are, (by $5.00 for each full month completed) for contracts begun AFTER August, 2008. ( Of course, it's buried in the small print.)

What would keep people from going out of the country to buy their big ticket items? How about: the travel cost (not a big deal for some, but prohibitive for many), shipping costs, or the problem of Customs, on re-entry? It would be similar to buying cigarettes online, to avoid the state taxes...

It's not like he's taking 2 weeks off to go drink Pina Colada's on the beach! If he were, he wouldn't care what Panther thought about it, lol - I know I wouldn't. :D Shame on them, for 'punishing' someone for military service....

The government has "awarded" Stephen Hatfill $5.82 MILLION dollars, for having mistakenly named him as a "person of interest" in the anthrax mailings! That is just total insanity!! They didn't accuse him, even! I wish they'd consider me a person of interest, too...:cool:

C'mon, Leo - wouldn't you suffer severe mental pain & anguish, seeing your truck demolished? :p Seriously, I think the "severe etc" is just boilerplate, thrown in to see what sticks - kind of like when the prosecutors charge someone with 18 different offenses, for the same single thing: if 12...

Does anyone have any idea who (or what) "ack" is?:confused:

Im sure Hawk and Steven will rag on me for this. but what fun I can here em now and good grief if ack or the road runner lady cherry Ill go stick my head in the sand then. Kinda wishin the Fed provided translation services, about now, but here goes: Don't feel too bad, Iceroadtrucker -...

Yeah, sure, Dave - blame it on us.....:p Besides, he started it!;) PS If you're thinking of calling my dispatcher, and begging them to find me a load - I already have, 12 times today, sigh.