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I enjoy these types of stories.

Rogers. Working on my second cup now. NOT nuked coffee, REAL coffee!! Have to run to the store today, we are out of just about everything. No time to stop at stores last week, hope this week will be the same.

We try to plan our fuel stops for the same time we are changing drivers. It is not hard to do and we have had a lot of practice at it. It is VERY rare these days that we have to wake up the other driver on these loads. You can go to the "off duty" line during your 10 hours. We have it down now...

It can be difficult sometimes. I won't go into the gory details but taking the wizz part has been solved. Many truck stops have the fuel receipts available at the pumps now. That has really made life easier. Besides, anyone is allowed to run into a truck stop to go to the bathroom if on sleeper...

We do 10 on and 10 off. We often have to run more than 22 hours. Those hours can either be driving or guarding the load. MANY of our loads are scheduled without the benefit of time for breaks.

Here is another good story. Not really related, but then again........ After 62 years, Holocaust survivor reunites with lost friend whose passport led her to America | The Upshot Yahoo! News - Yahoo! News

Now you sound more awake, must have the first cup down. Still workin on mine.

One my first as well. Nice, clear and cool morning here. No wind for a change.

Major understatement of the year there OVM!!! :p Must be short on coffee. Mornin Ken.

We don't have a set cpm that we won't go below. Each load is taken on it's on merits. Like Phil said, sitting waiting for loads is not free, it has a cost as well. In most cases, not all, we will turn down loads that do not make us a profit.

Good, it is not a carriers responsibility to pay for others bad life choices.

Really? I did not know that. They don't have to pay for it do they? I know with FDCC if I test bad and it is proven not to be a false test, I am toast, as I should be. No drinking and driving or doing illegal drugs. No problem.

Well, I can show proof of everything that I have done in my life if you so chose to come by the house sometime and see it. It is all documented. OR, you can just be rude or even call me a liar. Your choice, matters not to me. I guess I should apologize for working hard, succeeding at most things...

We sometime eat at Denny's or Cracker Barrel. Most of the time it is when we can't find a place that serves food!! :p

I have done both, I have experienced both. They both have their issues. As a manager I stood on hard concrete day in and day out. As a worker I destroyed my hearing working code and signals. I watched managers drop dead from the stress. It is easy to dismiss what a manager may or may not do...

No, I have not. They are also not the same thing. In the first place, illegal drugs are illegal. They made a choice to deliberately break a very important rule, one that is NOT there just to mess with them. It was NOT an accident. They CHOSE to do this. It is possible to get a ticket without...

Good, my Dad LOVES their bread. Too bad they don't have a web site. That is a bit silly these days.

That happens in some places. The larger the company and the larger the union the least likely it is to happen. I do know one thing, having been union, labor and management, management is a FAR harder row to hoe than working the line is.

Here ya go Turtle: West Fenkell Bakery 15282 Middlebelt Rd Livonia, MI 4815 734-427-9860 My Dad said he bought 3 loaves today and has one half gone already!! :D

I will get the name of it for you. It's ok, you are safe in that part of Michigan, they only bake there, not make turtle soup!!:p