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"His brother is no longer with us"? I'm afraid to even ask what that means.

I'm just using a little absurdity to point out a little absurdity. The quote above is not mine. It was lifted directly out of an earlier post in this thread. Find the original and you'll find the Holy Grail of absurdity and hypocrisy.

Excellent article. LOL

Why are you bringing up Clinton's personal life. What does that have to do with anything? Most people like and respect what he has to say. Why, yes. Yes I do! Thank you for that. I have also learned today that just being called a rapist is more than enough to actually make you one.

What happened to the other Sprinter?

I don't know. There may be structural integrity issues. I've never seen it done.

Apparently, all you have to do in order to be an Obama surrogate is be a Democrat.

Yes, I remember. I also remember how concerned you are with things on a load-by-load basis. Right. I got it.

We're back to the "well, duh" moment. So what you are saying is, you're happy with $1.85, and as long as you get $1.85, then it doesn't matter if you are actually due $1.96 because you're happy with $1.85, and whatever the carrier makes above $1.85 you couldn't care less about. Got it.

I figure I can get a good six months, maybe a year out of that one. :D

Yeah, I know. I wasn't commenting specifically on your statement. I know where you're coming from. It was more of a general statement on the attitudes that some people (those who rarely look at the big picture) in this business have.

You think all customers are all charged the same FSC rate by all carriers? They're not. One customer may have 8 different FSC rates depending on weight, distance, dimensions, time of day shipped, origin and destination, and any combination of the above. It can also fluctuate greatly when all-in...

And of course, by "friends and neighbors", he means Mexicans. And the occasional old fart with a clipboard.

Yeah, it can be a DOT approved sleeper, but keep in mind that it turns the entire box into the cab, even when properly "securely compartmentalized from the remainder of the cargo space", which can make a difference if you haul HAZMAT as to what kinds of HAZMAT you can carry (no poisons...

Many bids are all-in, but there are several customers where the bids are made on the line-haul only, and then the contracted FSC gets added in. Or they are all-in, burt the FSC is a predetermined amount of percentage. The reason for this, and why the carriers break it down, is because, for...

I think the bigger question is why do you want to buy a cargo van and get into expediting? Do you think you'll make a lot of easy money doing this? Your original question reeks of knowing about expedite, but not really knowing anything substantial about it. You're not just buying a van and...

Yeah, sorry about that. Engine failure. That doesn't mean they get scrapped when the engine dies. He's replaced several engines in the 600-900K range and they keep going.

1.1 million (and counting) is the highest I know of with absolute certainty, but I have heard of 1.3 million. There's a guy who delivers bulk bundles of the Louisville Courier-Journal to western KY from Louisville. Drives more than 500 miles a day, six days a week. He has nearly all of his...

I Was A Child Preacher By Jeremy Allen Mike, and I got along splendidly. Another of our friends was the Holy Ghost. I watched Mike perform in the pulpit, propelled by this enigmatic Holy Ghost dude, and I witnessed the power the pair of them had over a congregation. It was pure theater and I...

476253 miles on the Sprinter. It's leaking at a seal on the turbo itself, so it could probably be worked up with a rebuild kit that replaces all the seals and a few other things. But it's a lot of work and you still end up with and old turbo that's stressed and prone to failure. Replacing the...