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Show me in the dot rule book where a cargo van,under 10,000 gvw, is limited on any kind of mileage run.Or being made to sit in a truckstop while waiting for a load,not being able to move across the street without their "clock" starting again,requiring a 5 hour break after moving across the...

What gets me is each and every time I go to Laredo I always hear of drivers from a few companies hauling or being offered freight out of there for .55 cpm after sitting for a week...While I come in there, and sit no more than 2 days, often only 1 day, and a few loaded before I get unloaded, for...

But it is not only the rates we have to look at here, but the stipulations that some companies put on their so -called independent contractors.What I mean by this is the rule that I often hear about of how Panther limits their drivers on the amount of miles a run has to a solo driver, or the...

I know I am going to sound like I am contradicting myself here, but in todays economy, high rates can kill a driver and a company.Here is a real and perfect example, and Ken, you know who I am talking about... This person has a cargo van, same model as mine, but is leased to a different...

I have been running my $$$ off for the past week and a half,got a load from Charleston to Laredo,Less than a day later, one from Laredo,Texas toDenton,then one from Texas to Miami,a 1,550 miler.Then 5 hours later, one from Miami to Tampa,Then,Sat late morning, one from Miami to Detroit, but it...

I don't think .90 cpm on all loaded miles is a cheap freight rate, fsc included.The key to this is keeping the deadhead miles down to an absolute minimum, when possible.

unloaded Monday morning in Laredo, Loaded Tuesday in Laredo going to Denton, Texas.Gotta love those ASE dispatchers !!!!!

Coming down to Laredo to join the crowd....This gives me another nice 3,200 mile week...

The propane method would and does just plain worry me about those who use it. Please ,be careful.The last thing I want to read or hear is how a driver passed away because of carbon monoxide poisoining.Even me idling the van doesnt sit too well with me.I do have one of those detectors in here...

Ok,I just dont get it.I dont mean to be coming off sounding like a jerk or being smug here,LOL... but,.. You were earlier stating that you are having cash flow problems, which can be understood...But then to pay someone the amount youre paying for changing spark plugs and wires and maybe a...

It must be one heck of a hot tub to have dinner in!! As a freindly reminder, dont fart while in a hot tub,they emerge from the water twice as smelly....lmao.

Gee, that's funny, I was down there like a month ago and it was there, they hold car shows there on the weekends, unless they leveled it since then.The movie theater and Kohls is to the south of it.Wait a minute- I'm talking to a freind right now, and he said it was there last week also when he...

I wonder if this is the Same Jeremy that I know that used to dispatch at Rodriquez a few years ago. If it is, he is one awesome dispatcher!

It is still there, the truckstop.

The only thing that worries me about the Fumoto valve is that my drain plug is on the bottom of the pan.So I worry if I cannot avoid running over an object on the road,It may get snapped of in the process, and.....

My1,722 miler got cancelled, but an hour later got one from Grand Rapids to Nashville, anyway. It finished out the week, nicely.Worked out good.

When I had a Freightliner the wait time alone to get in the shop was terrible.That is what turned me off about a Freightliner, the service.Turtle has the right idea.We always pass by an Autozone in our travels, and he makes it profitable to stop and get the oil and utilize their point system to...

Very smart thinking.

I change it at the house, dont even have to jack it upany, as fat as I am.I just reach under from the driver side, and use a 3/4 wrench,loosen the plug, and let the 15 qts drain into my pan, change the filter at the same time.Then grease the driveshaft with the air grease gun, and the...

For the most part, Ohio is 65, so 5 over is nothing to sweat,they dont even look at me then.