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Most people like myself do not like change, especially when it entails changing employers or carreers for that matter. As I've shared on this forum we recently did just that. It was a decision made after much agonizing over our cost of operation and frustration with our prior carrier. Rather...

From my days with FECC I know that many of you van and straight truck drivers have had the pleasure of picking up or delivering to an awaiting aircraft at an airport. But how often do you see a T/T, especially one almost 80' long like ours doing the same? We do so on almost a daily basis with...

Recently we picked up a jet engine in Arizona at whats called "The Bone Yard". This is where jetliners go to die and become donors! Once all that can be salvaged is stripped off of the jet the rest is usually cut up, shredded and recycled. We had been warned about what to expect out there in...

In the thread "Understanding the load opportunity", Ateam refers to an O/O getting Canadian load offers ( which happened regularly) when his (my) T/T was not legal in Canada, according to Canada's maximum wheelbase length and overall length laws. That is correct. In fact, the Canadian load...

Thats right! Its bingo night at the Flying J in Columbia,SC. You can sit down to dinner in the restaurant and play bingo in the dining room while you eat! If you win you can get free steak dinners, free buffets, a pizza, and more. They are doing this every Saturday beginning at 16:30 hrs...

In a previous thread Nightcreacher said "Gary, don't discourage people from FECC". I would never discourage anyone from any carrier as all have their good points. What may fit for one may not fit for someone else when it comes to carriers. As ATeam responded when I posted a thread about...

Have any of the large sleeper owners (or motorhome/RV owners) on this forum had any experience with the RV sized W/D combos? I'm not talking about the stack unit, rather the type that washes and dries in the same bowl. How many pairs of bluejeans, etc can be washed at a time and how much water...

Recently we have seen shirts and jackets with Police, Sheriff, FBI, CSI, Security, etc availible for purchase in truckstops. They have been availible in certains stores for quite some time. Some even closely resemble what would be seen on official law enforcement personnel. Also other items such...

Recently I had the pleasure of having the drivers of a "D" sized unit tell me that since I am no longer leased to FDCC I'm no longer considered an "Expediter". Futhermore, I was told that if my carrier was not listed on EO's website then they are not in the expedite business. I won't mention...

We left a perfectly good parking space at Donna's T/P in Marysville,WA Sunday morning to relocate to the TA in North Bend,WA. We needed to do laundry and since Donna's had none we knew we could count on TA, afterall we've done laundry there back when it was the Seattle East T/P and even after TA...

We may have recently left FDCC to go into a new area of expedited freight but that does'nt mean we don't still get to haull freight for FedEx. Today we delivered a very large jet engine to Memphis,Tn from Chicago. It belongs to a FedEx Freight jet and is to be installed at the Memphis...

This was our first load with our new carrier. As you can see we traded the reefer box for a custom built stepdeck. The change in carriers has been enjoyable for us. Although we still do expedited freight we will be hauling a different type of freight than before.

I know I've thrown some negative ingredients into the pot lately, but here is how I really feel about FDCC. In the just shy of five years I have been with the Fed they were good to us for the most part. Afterall, I was able to get out of hauling grocery warehouse products and tractor parts in...

So how does it feel for all of you high dollar reefer units (like myself) to be informed by your carrier that they will no longer be paying the truck reefer relocation? We got our phone call today giving us the good news! Instead you just get the regular deadhead rate as I understand it. For...

Since Jan 1st,2008 through today we have averaged 1.6 temp controlled loads per month in our ER-unit. Granted, we've not taken our trailer to be recertified for T-val. But, in talking with several of our T-val friends we're told thats also been slow. Sounds as if we've not missed much there. We...

This thread is meant to simply ask those of us fortunate enough to have showers in our sleepers, when and where do you use your shower? Does your shower have a holding tank? Do you contain the wastewater until you can dump at an appropriate location (offsite), or do you just dump it where you...

I'm curious about this, so I'm gonna ask! How many owners (team) out there would (or do) give up the bed in their sleeper to accomadate a customer's ride along courier? How many fleet owners ask their drivers to "give up the bed" for the courier? Would you as a fleet driver drive for an owner...

You are dispatched to assist another truck load or unload their freight. In the course of assisting you are injured inside of their box. Say that you are not at fault for your injury or only have a partial responsibility for your injury. The injury causes you to loose time from being able to...

We receive a load offer today that left us both laughing! The run was a total of 38 miles paying a gross of $17.40. Yes, you heard me right! It was a B rate load being offered to an ER-unit. I'm sure it was just a typo, if not I really feel for the van rates! LOL

What is with the Pilot in North Fort Worth,TX lately? It is a major trash hole today!!! We used to prefer to stay at this loction when laid over in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. There is Cabelos across the street, Subway and Mc Donalds in the Pilot and IHOP right next door. This makes it a nice...