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While some people are certainly "fly by night" and try to skirt any rules they can, most are not like that. For example, I know one guy who routinely hauls placardable HAZMAT in a van, with no CDL and no placards. I keep telling him it's just a matter of time before someone hits HIM, and then...

Last year, he says, “I turned $65,000” gross on “about 100,000 miles, with $18,000 worth in fuel.” Where do I sign up?

My post is about the media, and the double standards of their political correctness.

People see a van, they think "creeper". Even more so when it's a plain van. You can believe otherwise, or you can go out and talk to people, read the newspapers, watch the news. To think that an unmarked van is no more suspicious than a marked one defies both reality and basic human nature. The...

The biggest thing you're doing wrong is believing those who say they consistently run 2000-3000 miles a week. 1500 on average is about right for a van, depending on your carrier. If you are truly independent like your sig says, and are not leased on with a carrier, that could also be part of the...

There are certainly a few Pilots, and other trucks stops, where it just isn't practical to take up a parking space for long periods of time. That Pilot an exit or two down from the TA in Antioch, TN comes to mind. Another one is in Coco Beach, FL where there is like 5 parking spaces for cars...

Unfortunately, Pilgrim is spot on with his observation. He lent as much tact as it deserves. If the two boys were white and the girl was black, national outrage from the black community, including a likely comment from the President about how the girl could have been one of his, would be all...

His name is in the obituary that Cheri posted. It's James Dean Priest. Here's the link again: James Priest Obituary: Bay City Times. There's a picture of him there, too.

Was he a member here on EO?

Same thing happens with those machines in Greensboro, it shows you your selections before you finalize it, and then prints out a paper copy. That it (the machines in NC) showed the selections before the vote was final is what enabled people to catch it. One woman noted that she tried several...

You betcha. Park an unmarked van next to the UN building in Manhattan at 3 in the morning and see if someone doesn't ask you a question or two. Granted, you're likely to get questioned in a lettered van, too, but the questions will come from a very different perception. An unmarked van on the...

As long as we intrude in other nations to monitor voting there, we have to be willing to allow others to monitor our voting here. The problem I have is with the UN's stated goals, that of monitoring voter suppression. It would be a lot easier to accept if their goal was to monitor voter fraud...

Calibration issue. Shyeah, right. That's more likely code for incompetence. The Board of Elections Director said these problems happen with these machines, they don't know what the cause is, but they fixed it. If they don't know what caused it, how can they fix it? If they can fix it, then they...

The same way. The problems come when that definition isn't put into practice, when people confuse assumption and proof, when people use evidence incorrectly to prove or disprove something that the evidence itself has nothing to do with thus does not prove anything at all. A clear example of that...

This thread had very little chance of staying on-topic, unless it remained a virtual ghost town, since very few of the owners of those companies post here on these boards.

For those having trouble seeing the detail...

Worth repeating... It's a bad reflection on the industry, seems almost seedy, unseemly, and doesn't exactly exude professionalism. The perceptions of the Ushippers and the unlettered vans are virtually the same - unprofessional. People have their reasons for running bare, and they will...

I actually think it's a good idea. I've shared a space with bobtails and straight trucks a few times. I truly wasn't joking about the idea. But that opening line, it reads like start of an infomercial. Couldn't help myself. :D

That's not only incorrect, but uncalled for and out of line. There is no basis for such a conclusion or accusation. When fellow expediters are involved in accidents, those accidents are sometimes reported here, not to make a carrier or a driver look bad, but to let the expediting community know...

The other thing that separates the two, of course, is how each one defines "evidence".