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  1. greg334

    This should scare the doo doo out of you

    I find it scary because we have lost our understanding that education is about learning, not social engineering or unions. These countries mentioned, India and China don't flourish just because of their education system but because of their language. The complexity of the language is a key to...
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    Expediters: What Does This Mean to You?

    Well then Phil let it sit and wait until someone else tries to clarify the question or better yet craft the question in a way that explains what you are thinking that effects us and what it is you are asking about or what you are thinking. You threw out this big amount of information and...
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    Is Truck Stop Customer Service Improving?

    Let me see - I bought a flashlight, it worked great in the store with the expensive batteries I bought with it. It lasted all but 10 minutes and I brought it back for another. After doing that three times, I asked for a refund and was told no refunds on electrical products. Then the manager told...
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    Finally a carrier that works for their cut!

    Which one of us? Leo, I should have added that about the 14 hour cycle but the question was about drive time. I didn't add pre/post trip or as Doug mentioned inspection time.
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    Finally a carrier that works for their cut!

    I am answering for me. A break is relative to the situation, if it is a matter of getting there and only getting there, when I fuel up, I have my food within arms reach - snacks. I am self contained so I have my toilet and everything else, so pulling over into a rest area to do my business is a...
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    This is scary

    When you look at the landscape of America's businesses, you see failures all over the place. One of them has been with the Mega Banks and I guarnetee you in the near future the other will be mega medical companies, like Pharma companies. I worked at the worlds largest Phama company, I know...
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    Expediters: What Does This Mean to You?

    Big John, Let me ask you these two thing; Would you rather tell the truth from the point of view of an experienced expediter who started as a solo or even a team and struggled to make it, telling a possible newbie in order to prepare them for a hard time and the same struggles? Even taking...
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    Finally a carrier that works for their cut!

    Maybe having a flooded basement and no sleep has caused me to just not get that, what are you driving at?
  9. greg334

    Driving a straight rig w/o a cdL?

    I don't know how it happens but here how it doesn't. 1 - I will go back to the insurance issue. It has to do with risk mitigation, where they look at the risks of putting that truck on the road. Having a CDL for any commercial work actually shows that the driver has taken steps to understand...
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    Expediters: What Does This Mean to You?

    IF GUNS KILL PEOPLE,THAN PENCILS MISSPELL WORDS,CARS MAKE PEOPLE DRIVE DRUNK AND SPOONS MADE ROSIE O'DONNEL FAT I like that, it speaks volumes of truth.
  11. greg334

    Finally a carrier that works for their cut!

    Many of us have said this for a long time but ignored. AND the market is not expediting but transportation. Aren't you the guy who was a driver than a broker than got bought up for billions and then disappointing and then came back as a driver or broker or something else than an owner...
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    Expediters: What Does This Mean to You?

    Sorry guys, I see a half full thing here. There is the ever lasting question of what material the container is made of. In this day and age would you actually have glass around in a truck or van? Maybe using a plastic container would be a more modern approach to it, is the plastic coffee mug...
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    Increasing Number of States Declaring Sovereignty

    Well from a states rights point of view, the way the system works is that the states have the right to pull out of the union based on their treaty with the US government. The US government doesn't own a state and when a state is up for statehood, there is a treaty that is signed with the US...
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    Discuss going Solo in a ST

    I share info on my success. Here is what I see from my experience as a solo owner/driver - former fleet owner. The company matters a lot but it isn't why you would think. The question is how they fit into your goals and plans, not if they are good for solos or not. A lot of solos work for...
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    Sirius Radio

    I had the same problem and it turned out to be my antenna. Some of the antennas were supplied by some Chinese company and there is a seal that is defective in them. It doesn't let water in but moisture and it plays havoc with the signal.
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    Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper?

    I love this comment ""When you have 50 employees, as much as you are responsible for holding their hands, you just can't," Mr. Rybicki says." Well Mr. Rybicki, ever hear of Fraud? It was your company who set the loan up, it is you who are totally responsible for your employees so it looks like...
  17. greg334

    How about a brand new bank?

    Tallcal I sort of agree with you but..... Some of this stuff with the SEC goes back to LBJ when he tired to change some of the banking regulations behind the scenes and even FDR. Somewhere in that mess, under Kennedy (Old Man Joe) there are some pretty weird regulations to help out the good ol...
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    Is Truck Stop Customer Service Improving?

    Pjjjj, Some time ago there was a discussion about the margins on the price of fuel, most thought it was 2 or 3 cents but these places are making more like 15 to 20 cents a gallon if I remember right. Their mark up alone on the food items is like 60%, slimjims are a perfect example, I can go to...
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    Chevy Van, anyone ever have this problem?

    According to someone else, I've been failing as an expediter. :p Well I looked for my big workshop manuals for the G series van and think I lent them out. I was going to look at the wiring diagram to see if it is simple two contact switch that can be bypassed or if it is another over engineered...
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    ford transit at chgo auto show

    Their excuse is the same as the excuse why they are not bringing the Duratorq engine to the US - not enough are going to be sold to justify the cost. Diesels do sell but the company looks at cost instead of slaes building. The real problem with Ford is that they don't think like their direct...
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