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  1. Turtle

    Where to go?

    That's an understandable statement, but clearly you are unfamiliar with the daily goings on at Load One.
  2. Turtle

    Back to Iraq?

    Why does the phrase "entangling alliances" keep popping into my head? I dunno. I just don't know.
  3. Turtle

    How Not to Treat a Prospective Driver

    Ah, yes, the sad but common tale of someone who enters the realm of small business ownership with the employee mentality. Unless you were going to be paid by the hour, you weren't going to be hired for anything, and you didn't fill out an employment application. And nobody, and I do mean nobody...
  4. Turtle

    Welcome to August Please Save Us!!! Location Forum

    Laredo is pretty easy to figure out. The other border towns, too. As far as expedite loads are concerned, what goes INTO Mexico is a lot of small loads, and what comes OUT of Mexico is mostly truckload and train car load. So you will always have more people delivering TO Laredo than you will...
  5. Turtle

    Not such a Fantastic idea

    What matters for the starting battery is cranking amps. The group size is the battery's footprint and dimensions. The starting battery and house battery do not need to match at all insofar as its footprint. The house battery can be whatever size you have room for. You will (or should) have the...
  6. Turtle

    Back to Iraq?

    "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." President George Washington, September 19, 1796. "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling...
  7. Turtle

    Not such a Fantastic idea

    Batteries don't die, their owners kill them. Words to live by. The 3-speed Fan-Tastic Fan Vent draws 1.86/2.29/3.0 amps. The hippy dippy spiffy 14-speed version draws between 0.2 - 1.9 amps. (the reason for the difference at full speed is the 3-speed fan's power goes through the speed switch...
  8. Turtle

    Where to go?

    Self-inflicted. There's too much freight coming out of El Paso to take one for that cheap. Granted, there's not a whole lot of van freight that comes out of Nogales, but then again there are rarely other vans down there, so what does come out of there you can not only get pretty easily, but at a...
  9. Turtle

    Welcome to August Please Save Us!!! Location Forum

    Without question, one of the first things you need to watch in that man cave is THE MONEY PIT.
  10. Turtle

    Our Media in Action

    It worked for me. Here it is, clickable. CNN anchor blames alcohol, empty stomach for alleged embassy attack: report
  11. Turtle

    Welcome to August Please Save Us!!! Location Forum

    Yeah, probably not on the same level, but I had the same kind a day yesterday. My gnarly TV stand arrive by UPS, and it was TOR UP. It had been dropped (maybe off the dock) and gouged and gored and maybe run over by another skid full of freight. They managed to replace about half the cardboard...
  12. Turtle

    Humble2Drive - Sad News

    Sad, indeed. I'll certainly miss him.
  13. Turtle

    Our Media in Action

    You need to realize that "you" is not the subject of this thread, and therefore "you" is an inappropriate response. You will find that a comment like that without an explanation as to why you made the statement, or at least why you disagree with the quoted comment, will result in a leash that is...
  14. Turtle

    Mississippi Fleet Owner.

    We have a Classifieds section specifically for the purpose of putting drivers and fleet owners together. You'll have a much better chance of finding one there, rather than here in the Forums.
  15. Turtle

    Our Media in Action

    Then there's this. Oklahoma Teacher Shows Up Drunk and Pantsless to Her First Day of Work
  16. Turtle

    New Load One Gold Rewards Program!

    Yep, that's exactly what it is. :D
  17. Turtle

    New Load One Gold Rewards Program!

    I got my shirts and die cast Sprinter the other day. The Sprinter, ironically enough, is a short, two-skid Sprinter. :D
  18. Turtle

    First out

    I don't think I'd get too wrapped up in cities, town, regions or some other geographical area. I also wouldn't even try to come up with any hard and fast rule, because as soon as you do something will pop up to be the exception. Expediting is, in the end, more about being in the right place at...
  19. Turtle

    Dispatch needs to get more info.

    Sorry to barge in.... Wrap lashing straps around the pallet to use as a harness, have the forklift raise the pallet by the straps, drive to the edge of the dock, lower the pallet, you back towards the pallet, devouring it into the van. Also you can use metal banding to strap another pallet on...
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