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For those who seriously think 18 wheels and a heavy truck make it better: I've seen a couple of Michigan Trains come to grief in the ditches. Those things look like centipedes on wheels, I've counted at one time or another upwards of 36 tires on one of those things. They run very heavy, too, so...

I drove 18s. When everybody else has slowed down, when 40 feels dangerous, and a rig goes zipping by at 65, everybody else thinks he's a bozo. And, you know what, they're right. He's a bozo. Ice doesn't give you much clearance and it really doesn't give a rip how much experience or how many...

Slow enough. Like Zane, this is my first January in Expedited, so I'm playing it by ear. Last year I was local, and like one other person pointed out office supplies, pharmaceuticals and liquor alway move. (What a job: Hauling drugs and liquor. All I needed was a couple of hot babes and I would...

How tall is it? If it's the really long one, you've got about 14 feet between the back of the driver's seat and the rear doors. The side dimensions will be slightly narrower than the Ford or Chevy, figure about an inch narrower. In between the wheel tubs, you have maybe 50 inches, as compared to...

Your guess is as good as mine. Anywhere I ask, I get a different answer. Past experience doesn't help much either, seems no two years run the same. I kind of hope Zorry is right, but I wouldn't bet the rent on it.

I've had occasion to want one. Back when I was doing route work locally, my dispatch had it in their heads that you could do forty stops in an area covering parts of three or four counties. Now, anybody with experience and an idea of how Chicago Greater Metropolitan Area is built would laugh...

I understand that they're only allowed to run from Mexico to the delivery here, maybe pick up something headed back to Mexico, and that's about it. They really don't compete with us for state-to-state shipments, at least from what I hear.

There might be 4th Amendment questions about the van, especially when I have TSA cargo on it. About my house there's no real question. The only ways TSA can enter here according to the Constitution are either by invitation or by warrant. That warrant has to specify what, exactly or who, exactly...

I think I'll join Turtle on bridge-crossing speculation. When I signed on with Same Day I was told the TSA might-- only might, mind you-- pay me a visit at home. It is a possibility. It's also a possibility that the only time I'll see a TSA agent is at the airport. Will they pay me a visit at...

It is scary. I get $1.05 a loaded mile, and I own my van. I can't imagine fleet owners of vans making a whole lot of money, and some of the per-mile prices I've been seeing here are positively poverty-row stuff. Now imagine that you're getting only 40 percent of that. It doesn't take an active...

See bolded above. I agree, it's scary enough when you're broke and things go wrong and you're responsible only for yourself. I've thought about what it might be like to have a wife along (I'm divorced, but lately one of the women at the church I attend has shown interest in me) when things go...

I have to admit that had me stumped too. If I do stop at home with freight onboard, it's only going to be for a few minutes.

I was told when I signed on at Same Day that a TSA visit was possible. No idea when, or even if. Apparently, all I can really do is be sure my paperwork is in order and ask for ID when they show up, to make sure they're who they say they are. Since I signed on, I haven't had a load that would...

I saw a video clip the other day concerning the Battle of the Bulge. Tanks were trying to negotiate a downhill grade and slipping pretty bad in the snow. You'd think a tracked vehicle that weighs as much as a Sherman or a Tiger tank could handle the snow, but-- nope, they were sliding, and--...

I had occasion to drive South on I-57 Thursday. Nobody sane was trying to speed, half the time we were in white-out conditions due to blowing snow. I did see a couple of rigs on their sides, and one pick-up truck towing a trailer had lost it and ended up in the median. Special note: It takes a...

Since you ask: Yep, it's a scam all right. Supposedly they can lower your credit-card interest. Problem: They have no connection to the bank that issued your card, so they're powerless to do what they said they could do. They DO ask you for your information, and armed with that they clean out...

Question: Doesn't anybody monitor those police-cruiser cams? It seems to me from the article that this was an ongoing problem, and it should have been caught long before it was. Imagine several different videos going viral. Some higher-up wasn't watching when he should have been.

I've got my cell phone on the Do Not Call list, have had it there for years-- for all the good that does. There's a scam operation that specifically seems to call cell phones, supposedly they can lower your credit-card interest rates. I get them every other week on the average, never answer but...

Now I know how to get around the "Send this to ten people or God won't like you" phrasing that comes at the end of the chain emails I get. Just post them here, problem solved. Er, ahhh--- special note: I never, under any circumstances, forward chain letters of any kind. That stuff about not...

When I first got into the courier business, I had a standard pickup with the 8-foot bed and a cover. I ran that for a year or so, but the fact is that it's not the right vehicle for the job. It has the capacity of a station wagon and the fuel thirst of a large van-- so just get a van. Can you...