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Near Nashville, TN. Pick up near here on Mon heading for KY.

You have more "faith" in the process than I. My belief is that the fraud, costs etc, will drastically increase. From what we are hearing in here, the cost is already going up. We also know that the "pool" of available doctors is smaller. That will also help to drive up cost and there will soon...

Like there is ANY federal program out there that is not full of fraud. Here is what happens with more federal intervention. Prices go up, availability goes down, quality goes down, fraud increases and the intended goal, in this case healthy drivers, is never reached.

Secret stuff? :confused: What kind of "Secret Stuff"?

I have been seeing offers today at WAY less than $1.40. Like $842 for 830 miles, 3000lbs. Some reefer loads pushing $1.40 per. Starting to suck.

Then you had no need to know

Last load I had out of BC went to Houston, TX.

It is also not only the "gross numbers" you are used to seeing that matters. The ratio between the two are very important and CAN give warning to developing problems. The difference it called the "pulse pressure" and 40mmhg is considered to be "healthy". Pulse pressure - Wikipedia, the free...

It's because you are in a van I guess. :cool: Don't know what to tell you if your dispatch can't get it figured out.

We have used that "trick" once or twice ourselves. We have even have used it out in the REAL world on occasion.

What did dispatch say?

Did you go to the commercial gate? How about calling your POC at the base?

120/60 was considered the "norm" when I was in EMT school so many moons ago. The 80 is a bit on the high side, for old school that is. As to medical people knowing, there was a time, not all that long ago, when it was taught that high blood pressure was good. Who knows what will be next? I do...

Don't think on it too long, it will give you a headache.

Military base can be a pain. Your dispatch SHOULD have worked it out for you. Should every have wasted all that time/fuel etc. You not having spent time in the military does not help either. You don't understand governmentesse or the like. 9 out of 10 times I can figure out the military part...

Are we sure it is not the week before Christmas? I just cannot get over, one, how few load offers we have seen, and two, how poorly they are paying. IF this were to continue it would not pay to stay in business for sure.

That would be a short list! :p

For us older people it is the opposite. They want to RAISE the numbers before we start taking meds, not lower them. I have NO idea what the DOT dudes will do with this. New Blood Pressure Guidelines Raise the Bar for Taking Medications

You would never make it in a government regulatory agency! :cool:

There are those out there for sure. I am speaking of reefer loads I have seen today. HORRIBLE pay! Money losers no matter how one would try to make it sound, and yet, they get covered. Work more, make less, is NEVER good.