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aristotle, Sorry - just saw this ... my reply may be a little late in the game. That is the general idea - that you do (feel trepidation) is intended, and is actually part of the IRS's strategy to gain compliance with the tax code. No, actually you don't ..... Despite that, I believe that...

Dropped in Remington, IN this morning at 08:00 and then drove across the overpass to the Pilot and racked out for about 8 hours. Dispatch woke me up with a load for Monday morning picking up in Elgin, IL .... so I started heading north ..... currently at a Starbucks in Crown Point, IN about 10...

hangin' at the J in KC ...... ..... but apparently departing momentarily for Remington, IN, via Cameron, MO. :D

I'll bet ... :rolleyes:

I might resemble that remark .... :rolleyes: I ran the 407 exactly twice ..... and I got the bill about a month or so later ..... which was entirely incorrect (about double what I actually owed - they had charged me for being a heavy-duty vehicle for one thing which, by their own standards and...

..... knew there had to be a reason I couldn't understand it ...... I don't habla Slavish :rolleyes:

Actually .... I did have a dream last night .... although it ended up being far from pleasant: I was driving down a lonely stretch of road out in the middle of nowhere, in the wee hours of the morning. I had just passed a open scalehouse a few minutes earlier. I looked back in my mirror...

Yeah ...... and you can contact IRS personnel with tax questions and I think the surveyed rate of error was something on the order of 90% ... or some such astronomical amount ... and they are the very folks charged with enforcing the Federal tax laws .... :rolleyes: IOW, I ain't impressed...

Bzzzzzzzt ...... wrong ...... not even. Greg, I'm not ignoring you :D - I've wanted to reply to some of what you wrote and the issues that you have raised ..... unfortunately only so many hours in the day. I've actually started to ..... hopefully I'll get a little spare time in the next 24 to...

Sometimes it's just amazing the quarters from which things come .... especially when you thought you knew them so well :D BTW - 2000 loads ..... very impressive ...... well done !

Good grief man ........ that's ..... well .... just .... wow .... I'm speechless .... Lemme just think about that for a minute: "personal responsibility has been a failure in all areas it's been tried" .... wow ....... do you even actually realize what that says about your view of the nature...

If I had ever done it, I'd admit to it (privately) .... but certainly not on a public forum .... :rolleyes: Yup - that's true - it can .... and it sometimes does. Interesting thing about it though ...... if you read the thread: MSinger had had a full nights sleep prior to doing the load -...

No - it's not. That premise is a strawman (argument based on a false premise, constructed to try and refute a point .... which it doesn't) Freedom and personal responsibility are a better solution. It is really that simple - don't complicate it.

Exactly .... like many things, once you start down that road it's a slippery slope ......... carried to the level of insanity you get ..... well, just look around :rolleyes: Some folks apparently have become so enamored of their chains, that they think you ought to be wearing a set too ...

CD, You are quite welcome. The parallels are in fact fairly obvious ..... even if some here are incapable of making the connection. What we are talking about here is, at it's most basic level, freedom ..... Some folks are fans of that (freedom), other folks not so much - despite what they...

Dakota, Thank you for pointing out the obvious (although I rather suspect it will be lost on those that seem disinclined to bother looking, and in any event, are incapable of seeing) You seem like a fellow that one could have a rational discussion with - unlike a (relatively) few other folks...

Yup. I know only of one ... the individual involved was a friend (fairly close) .... sadly, he didn't make it ..... :( I don't know that lack of sleep was involved, and there certainly were other things that may have contributed to what happened (adverse weather conditions, among others)...

Well ...... of course there is ..... :rolleyes: But just as there is a difference, there is also a similarity - the primary one being: Both are a reduction of freedom - and the confiscation of personal responsibility from the individual. One deprives the individual of a means of defending...

One thing I have to bring into this discussion, because I have heard about it repeatedly from friends who drive for other carriers than mine: There are carriers who have definite rules as far as what they will permit in dispatched miles and hours of service for unregulated drivers. Well, at...