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That was AWESOME Phil!!! The Amish people of Lancaster County are close to my heart.Before getting into expediting I drove a tractor/trailer for MCT for many years.I had a dedicated run from Fl. hauling tropical plants from the south FL. growers to nurseries throughout the east including...

The Adam's County Sheriff's Dept was called to the scene immediately. They arrived within 10 minutes of the altercation. I was asked if I had any injuries from the battery. Unfortunately there were no visible markings where he had hit me at the time of the investigation.Since there were no...

Hey Paul56, Thanks for the advise on self defense. Im very fortunate in that my wife was a Sheriff's deputy for 11 years before we went into the expedite business.Obviously she had to be up on the laws to be able to properly enforce them. Unfortunately in our society and the way our laws are...

Update to post "Almost got my A#%S kicked by JB Hunt driver": Since there were no witnesses to JB's driver striking me in the chest after he had hit our truck, getting Battery charges to stick are all but impossible.Also, JB claims no responsibility for his actions even though he was at their...

At first I had the same question. But in rereading Phil's post I think what he meant was FECC normally uses 12' or less of his box. He did indicate that if need be, their equipment can be consolidated into a smaller area if FECC needs the required 14' on a C-unit. They don't mind the occasional...

Hey Phil, Love those "Movers Rubber Bands", we carry about 80 of them. Three different sizes. They're great for holding pads on freight. Plus when we're not busy, you can have an awesome rubber band fight. Wish I could have had those when I was a kid, I could have been king of the rubber band...

We were at a customer loading Thursday afternoon. In drives a JB Hunt. Out jumps this young driver.The shipper tells him to back into the door next to us ( on our passenger side).Driver has a straight line back,real easy.We're in our box padding and strapping when all the sudden we hear a big...

Jackback57, I'm sure if you were to call FECC recruiting and explained why you chose not to go with this owner they would understand. Furthuremore if you met FECC's driver requirements to be considered in the first place, I'm sure they would give you more names of fleet owners to contact. If...

Well, we got our truck out of the paint shop Monday afternoon. Although we lost an additional week's revenue waiting on it it was worth the wait. It looks great! We got a suprise when we picked it up.The original work order was for them to strip the lettering off the sides of the box,prime and...

You may be right! He is a large well established business here in Fl and has long standing paint and repair contracts with the City,County, State,and also with some of the large food service corporations in our area.He is also the Kidron repair and service location for our area. With a bio like...

Wanting to know if anyone else has run into this problem: Our signs were put on our truck when it was new in 2001. First they began cracking around the box rivets about two years ago. Then more recently they began cracking all over (like antiquing), first the darker letters followed by the...

Dave, Thanks for your post here regarding Pat and Tim Hopkins.After a very BAD experiance as percentage drivers with our first fleet owner, you can bet we felt very lucky to find Pat. You may remember the thread "Honest/Dishonest Fleet Owners" I posted a while back. We have always appreciated...

If you are asking "would 85/15 split be about average for a lease" my answer would be this: When we were looking to do our Lease/Purchase 80/20 split was the average, 85/15 was all but unheard of.But as the Lessee you need to crunch the numbers of what you feel you can afford in a lease payment...

If I wrote everything here that should be in a "SAFE" lease/purchase contract it would fill an unbelievable amount of space. Our contract was at least 10-pages long. So, heres a condensed version: To set this up, our truck was bought specifically for our lease.We actually found the truck...

Hey Leo, After watching the "Product Demo" you recommeded I'm left with this conclusion: In the time it took to set that bad boy up I'm afraid it would be to late!:'( The Porta-Potti in our sleeper is much faster. The wife just wishes I'd install one of those bathroom exhaust fans,you know what...

Patrick Hopkins. A very honest fleet owner along with his brother Tim!

When the subject of Lease/Purchasing a truck from a fleet owner comes up on this forum its usually full of horror stories about how the deals went bad.How often have you seen a positve post about this subject.Furthermore,why would anyone want to give someone else part of their hard earned money...

What ever happened with that "Really Cool Run" to Masset,BC? Never heard any updates as to how the ferry ride went our what the island was like. I'm sure many like myself are curious to hear how things went. Were there any problems along the way or did things go smoothly? It would be nice to...

Hotfr8, Great reponse and very imformative along with the other good replies to this thread. There have been two post in particular that raise a question. What is considered a reasonable request on the "Company's" part when it comes to how far a driver must travel (at his/her expense)to a...

I was recently asked this question: Does a company that one is leased to have the right to dictate which clinic a driver must go to when selected for a random? The example that was used; the driver is sitting at Jubitz in Portland,OR. Jubitz has a clinic certified by the governing agencies...