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  1. Turtle

    One Man Fight to Save the Expedited Trucking Industry

    Duty, God, Corps, Country works best for the Marines, but won't work at all for a disparate group of independent business people running their own businesses.
  2. Turtle

    Shipping Hazmat, Help please.

    On a daily basis? No. Once or twice a yer is plenty. There are copious amounts of advanced headsup from various trucking magazines, not to mention the proposed rule changes get discussed here without fail. No, and I can't find anything in the regulations stating such change. You'll have to...
  3. Turtle

    Shipping Hazmat, Help please.

    All rule changes go through the arduous rulemaking process, and are detailed on the FMSCA website, complete with the date they will go into effect,with the dates usually being months or years in advance.
  4. Turtle

    More Insight Into Baltimore's Crime Problems

    It's the minimum wage workers who are devalued. They've been devalued so much that now they're only worth minimum wage.
  5. Turtle

    More Insight Into Baltimore's Crime Problems

    Like I said, what matters is not the arrests performed without resorting to deadly force, what matters is the ones that do. You have to get down to a figure that in an acceptable number of wrongful deaths. I'm quite sure that if all of those 4800 deaths were white people, the attitudes of a...
  6. Turtle

    June in Load One land

    Went to Whataburger in Laredo. Was waited on by a Chinese girl.
  7. Turtle

    One Man Fight to Save the Expedited Trucking Industry

    No, but when he looked up and saw all those Indians, he knew he'd made a really, really stupid decision. So, same thing.
  8. Turtle

    Questions from a Newbie Cargo Van O/O

    One of the biggest problems is people driving someone else's van. When you're splitting revenue with an owner, you really do need 500 miles minimum to make any money at all out here.
  9. Turtle

    More Insight Into Baltimore's Crime Problems

    It's not really apples and oranges. Germany has a population of 82.6 million as of 2014. The US has a population of, let's go with 318.9 million as of 2014. The US is 3.86 times the size of Germany. so, 3.86 x 85 bullets = 328 bullets fired in a year adjusted for population. The Cleveland police...
  10. Turtle

    Shipping Hazmat, Help please.

    That's correct. If you haul hazardous materials which requires placarding in an unregulated vehicle, the DOT requires you to have additional liability insurance. I know. Mine does, too. It's great, isn't it? The police can pull over a CMV for any reason or no reason at all, including that of a...
  11. Turtle

    Has anyoe heard of On Call Logistics?

    True, sort of. But you also have to be aware that some of those at different web sites can be the same people. For example, the one at Ripoff Report from Eddyville, KY went all over the net posting about it, sometimes using the same name, sometimes using different names.
  12. Turtle

    More Insight Into Baltimore's Crime Problems

    You asked me what my solution was, and you didn't like it, therefore I got nothing? Seriously? The first step in arriving at a solution is to honestly identify the problem. You, apparently, want to enact a solution to solve a symptom instead of the problem, likely because you see the symptom as...
  13. Turtle

    Shipping Hazmat, Help please.

    That's because the article was written for drivers, mainly those in cargo vans, to know whether or not they can haul hazardous materials without a CDL and a HAZMAT endorsement. It wasn't part of the scope of the article to inform shippers or carriers of their requirements. The reason logs aren't...
  14. Turtle

    Has anyoe heard of On Call Logistics?

    Ripoff Report is largely a "whine" website.
  15. Turtle

    Shipping Hazmat, Help please.

    It's correct that " any hazmat u log" (whatever "u" means), but that only applies to placarded HAZMAT. If the load doesn't require placards, then a CDL with a HAZMAT endorsement is not required, and neither is a log book unless the vehicle is a Commercial Motor Vehicle as defined by the DOT...
  16. Turtle

    More Insight Into Baltimore's Crime Problems

    Some of is was motivated by crime, especially the race riots in Detroit, Chicago, DC and Philly, which caused whites to exodus en mass to the suburbs in cities all over the country, including cities that had relatively little crime and no race riots. But the two biggest impetuses for the...
  17. Turtle

    Shipping Hazmat, Help please.

    That's only if the load requires placards. If it's paint, and it's under 1001 pounds, then there's almost nothing at all to cover here. No ducks to get lined up. It's the same as car, truck and marine batteries. You have to have a HAZMAT endorsement to haul them if they weigh more than 1000...
  18. Turtle

    More Insight Into Baltimore's Crime Problems

    She calls in proactive policing instead of racial profiling, but it's the same thing regardless of its label. "Blacks and even Hispanics are statistically more likely to resist arrest and have a violent altercation with police." You can't say that with any certainty. Well, not with any valid...
  19. Turtle

    Shipping Hazmat, Help please.

    Like I said, start a thread on it, there's nothing wrong that that. But don't try and turn every thread on here into a :censoredsign: session about Russian drivers and yellow trucks.
  20. Turtle

    Shipping Hazmat, Help please.

    He compared and contrasted your comment as implying it was OK to ignore the Code of Conduct just because you find it inconvenient. As for making your case, there is no case to be made. All you're doing it bitching about it, and trying to recruit everyone else to :censoredsign: about it with you. It's...
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