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In another thread, TeamCaffee quoted Jason (Frederick, I presume) saying the Qualcomm cost issue "Has been heard loud and clear!" While that is good to know, we have yet to see a change in the cost, except the increase from $30 a week to $35 that came with the new units. Contractors have...

Expediters love talking about what they won't do (take loads that don't pay, chain up, go to Canada, take short runs that tie the truck up for too long, etc.). What about the other side of the coin? When you receive what you consider to be good or excellent pay for services rendered, what does...

Full story here Posted here so expediters from all carriers can comment. The services named FedEx Freight Priority and FedEx Freight Economy are an interesting transportation industry development. Expedite carrier FedEx Custom Critical is a component of FedEx Freight. FedEx Freight is one of...

This is one of the many reasons I am pleased to support OOIDA and contribute to its PAC and litigation funds. From OOIDA: "Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 – In what the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association legal team calls a 'major victory,' U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank ruled the...

On its SMS Information Center web page, the FMCSA explains what SMS is, saying: "The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) Safety Measurement System (SMS) is an automated system that quantifies the on-road safety performance of motor carriers so that FMCSA can identify...

In the stolen van AND MY DOG thread, TeamCaffee said, "I was thinking of all of the things that we would lose if our truck was stolen or totaled and it is very scary to contemplate." She is right, it is scary to contemplate but also wise to do. When our friends Glen and Janice Rice had an...

Diane and I were on the road for over seven years before we found ourselves in a spot where tire chains were required for the truck to legally proceed. Like most anything else I have never done before, a bit of apprehension preceeded the event. It is not hard to chain up a truck, but there is...

Complaints are common here in the Open Forum about fleet owners that harmed drivers by failing to maintain equipment, holding back pay, improperly keeping escrow money, violating contract provisions, etc. Yet no one ever names a fleet owner publicly to warn off other potential victims. The...

Have you seen it too? 1. The repeat load offers that we complained about a while ago seem to have stopped. Now we see an offer once and if it is declined, we don't see it again unless the pay is bumped. 2. The new crop of dispatchers that were brought in several months ago seem to have hung...

Groups Set to Sue FMCSA Over CSA Disclosure

Educational Video on YouTube about quantative easing and the Federal Reserve Bank.

I am surprised that the promoters of the new Qualcomm/EOBR systems have not yet mentioned the news yet that came in the November 5 Fleet Bulletin about viewing, saving and printing your hours of service history. I raised the issue here on February 10 and here on February 14. It got a lot of...

Full Story Here A law firm seems to be active in pursuing class action law suits based on some of the grievances truckers have voiced for years. Schneider and Swift are targeted. It will be interesting to see where this goes from here.

From TheTrucker.com: "'I can tell you that I recently found out that FMCSA does keep what they call a ‘red list’ of drivers. They consider them the worst drivers in the country and they carefully monitor what companies have hired those drivers....' "'...they’ve gathered all that data over...

How Did You Fare in the Historic Winds? Meteorologists are calling it "record breaking mid-latitude cyclone," "massive windstorm," "historic band of storms" and other such names. Whatever the name, Diane and I were happy to find ourselves on the right side of it. We drove yesterday and today...

Interesting Arguments Against EOBRs Text deleted...duplicate

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We have all seen the complaints here about the large number of low-paying loads being offered out to trucks, with most people claiming they turn them down. I want to step a bit behind the offers and ask, where do they come from and why are they offered? Diane and I are laid over at home today...

Each time Diane and I are laid over near San Francisco we learn more about how to get into the city and enjoy its many attractions. We have a good teacher in Jack Dixon, a fellow FedEx Custom Critical contractor who calls the area home. This time we parked our truck at the small truck stop...

Each time Diane and I are laid over near San Francisco we learn more about how to get into the city and enjoy its many attractions. We have a good teacher in Jack Dixon, a fellow FedEx Custom Critical contractor who calls the area home. This time we parked our truck at the small truck stop in...