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  1. Turtle

    The Trump Card...

    I'm not sure why whenever I or anyone says anything negative about Fox News you find it necessary to bring up CNN , as if to say say, "Yeah, well, CNN does it is tooooo!" That's a classic 'don't look so closely at Fox, pay more attention to CNN' deflection. CNN is clearly biased, we all know...
  2. Turtle

    The Trump Card...

    What goes on at CNN doesn't make Fox News any less agendized.
  3. Turtle

    The Trump Card...

    The fact that their news is agendized precludes the possibility of them being either fair or balanced, same as any other agendized media outlet.
  4. Turtle

    Big Truck Advice for newbies....

    You said "that was" the requirement, indicating past tense of the medical card regulation, implying it is no longer a requirement. It "still is" a requirement for drivers of all motor vehicles that meets the definition of a Commercial Motor Vehicle. I just thought it really odd that he...
  5. Turtle

    Big Truck Advice for newbies....

    Still is.
  6. Turtle

    Big Truck Advice for newbies....

    Just so you know, you need a medical card to drive any vehicle over 10,000 pounds, even one that doesn't require a CDL. But yeah, that sounds like a reasonable way to get into expediting, gain experience, and see if you like it.
  7. Turtle

    The Trump Card...

    Yeah, cuz Fox News is, like , sooo fair and balanced.
  8. Turtle

    Portable Generator deals/for sale? Best a/c unit?

    Pretty close , actually. As of August 2016, the success rate of fully funding a project on Kickstarter was 35.85 percent. The mean funding among projects is 10.3% of their goal, and only one in ten of these projects raise more than 30% of their goal. In other words, most failed projects fail...
  9. Turtle

    Company Driver

    If he can't turn down loads then it's a slam dunk that he is an employee and shouldn't be paid on a 1099.
  10. Turtle

    Fishing in your down time

    You'll want to get either a day pass, or a 3 or 7 day pass. Although in most states an annual pass is not much more than a 7 day pass. The fines can be steep. Anywhere from $50 to $100, plus twice the cost of an annual license, plus $5 or $10 for every fish taken, plus confiscation of all...
  11. Turtle

    Verizon new data plans

    Verizon has been doing everything they can think of to get people off the unlimited data plan and onto a tiered plan. I'm still unlimited. A month or two ago they announced that the unlimiters who use more than 100 gigs in a month will just have their service canceled unless they go to a tiered...
  12. Turtle

    What are these for?

    I was going to put L-track in the Sprinter when I first started outfitting it, but I really didn't plan it out properly to have it on hand when I needed it. I already had the E-track straps and the trailer store up the road had E-track on hand and would cut it to length for me. So that's what I...
  13. Turtle

    The Trump Card...

    Retired cop smashes car window to get baby out of hot car in New Jersey. He's a hero. CNN and HLN called him that. When they interviewed him live, you see that in the top part of the photo. When they re-aired the same segment an hour later, you see that in the bottom part of the photo. HLN...
  14. Turtle

    A LOT of Truckers may fall in these early recommendations for a Sleep Apnea Test

    Exactly. It's all theater. The FMCSA and the medical board tried to sneak sleep apnea into the regs when Congress said they at least have to go through the motions. The recommendations manual that medical examiners are given had everything regarding sleep apnea worded as if it were already a...
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    A LOT of Truckers may fall in these early recommendations for a Sleep Apnea Test

    This started several years ago when all five members of the FMCSA's Medical Review Board were doctors heavily and directly involved in the sleep industry in one way or another. Three of them ran sleep clinics, even. They change out the membership regularly, but over the years there has always...
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    What are these for?

    L-Track is the standard in air cargo.
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    Starting out in an empty van

    You'll also want to check out these threads in the Truck Talk forum on setting up a van. http://www.expeditersonline.com/forums/threads/cargo-van-threads.44083/
  18. Turtle

    275 open

    As inconvenient as some of these things are, I gotta figure a bridge collapse would be even more so.
  19. Turtle

    Ice Road Trucker star dies after leaving GATS

    Are you kidding me? That's so sad.
  20. Turtle

    Truck Speed Limiters Proposed by Feds

    The number one cause of traffic accidents involving CMVs are either distracted driving, DUI, speeding, or sleep apnea, depending on the hobby horse du jour.
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