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Would you have truck Payments and how big? Would this be a more or less dedicated run to a crummy area? Who is the carrier? How many miles would it take to make this amount? How much deadhead? There are a lot of variables still in the mix but, maybe. In my old (99) FL and at a decent rate per...

I flipped out and then went out of service and went home. I ground my teeth down to stubs while the smoke leaked out of my ears all the way home. Then I shared my jovial mood with my wife who did begin to speak to me again after a day or so. When she did speak to me, some of her first words...

I had about 6.5 years of seasoning at the time this happened. 6 months for an owner in an fl70, 3years in my own fl70, and 3 years in my Sprinter. I should have mentioned this happened on a wednesday and thursday after a very trying monday and tuesday following a very mediocre week. I was in a...

This happened more than a year ago but I assure you it's a true story. So ... I'm sitting in Fort Wayne In about 10am and I get a load offer for a load to Laredo. It picks up in south central IN it pays well with lots of miles so I take it.:) I'm getting close to the pickup on my 150 mile...

Hi Star.. I have given a lot of thought to an encore appearance in the expediting world and I'm still on the fence. I almost made it to Expo but I had a wedding that I couldn't miss. Still, my family would like me to stay out of it and I have lost 20 pounds just by not being on the road. Buuuuut...

I used Lucas in my Freightliner but looking back on it I really can't tell you why. I guess I must have drank the koolaid they were selling. Marvel is great stuff but I always used it to free up old engines that had been sitting for a long time. I never used it as an oil additive. I'm with the...

I drove both a strait and a sprinter. My main reason for going from a strait to a sprinter was wait time and deadhead. It just costs more to deadhead, relocate, or even just sit and wait in a D truck. I don't think it would have been an issue if I had been a team but as a single driver the loads...

They don't look too bad if you squint real hard when you look at the picture. Looking without squinting may cause a headache.

I'll be there if I can figure out how to get this chain off my leg where the wife has me chained to the tree in the front yard. Can someone send me a file?

Speaking of deviating from the general thread .... It's a great thing that we can earn free showers with our fuel purchases but what is Pilot or the J getting in return when we camp out in their lot. We use their restrooms and lounge but are we buying stuff from their stor or resturaunt. They...

One used 99 FL70 that I owened for 2 1/2 years and a new 2005 Sprinter that I owned for 3 1/2 years. Currently truckless and chained to a post in the yard to keep me home.

I ran for a carrier that awarded a $25 savings bond every time you passed a roadside inspection. I had a two month period where I was pulled back 5 times and passed every time. I think safety was beginning to think I was pulling a scam.

Retired Life was hard a year ago. Up and down the roads I'd go. Hauling freight both far and near, that's the way it was last year. Living in a van, I was, to earn a living and because, the road was calling ... hey old man, the life you love is in your van. But, how could that be , I...

Yaaaaaa .... up nort in da UP Eh. Where we watch da Packers on da tube, and we eat da road kill pasties, and we spend our raha on beer.

They almost didn't pass me when they caught me doing hot laps on the drivers training course in my fathers car. That was the trouble with people back then, no sense of humor. Nowdays they would be afraid of stunting my individuality by being negative about my need to express myself as a free...

I'm afraid I wasn't very highly regarded by my high school teachers so they may take umbrage with your opinion. Actually, I guess they wouldn't because that was so long ago that they all must be dead by now. I always saw Dakota as a small Dodge truck, Cheri just like she is but purple, and Moot...

Soreee .... Looks like I killed the thread. Anyway, Highwaystar doesn't really look like santa. He looks like a cross between Kenny Rogers and Santa. I look like Walter Brennan.

I see Highwaystar as Santa, but that's not fair because I have seen him in person. I see Turtle as being short and green with an easy disposition. I see OVM as a dapper dresser. I see Jack Berry as being round and blue. I could go on but it takes a long time typing with two fingers.

Bill Watson ... I sent you a private message.