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    Global Food Reserves Falling as Drought Wilts Crops

    It occurs to me to ask aloud the question, "What are the global food reserves for?"
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    Stuck in carlisle pa!

    The last sentence is a diametrical opposition to everything else in that paragraph.
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    Stuck in carlisle pa!

    "Stuck" is a term that I have great difficulty with respect to where an expediter chooses to sit. The only time I've been "stuck" anywhere is when the truck was broken down and was being repaired, and I was unable to leave. Unless you're broken down, you're not stuck. So I agree, the "stuck" is...
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    Stuck in carlisle pa!

    More than just dispatch reads here, too. Posting "stuck" with an angry face causes any number of people to begin certain processes. If those processes are based on incomplete or misleading information, then those people have just wasted their time. One of those processes is John getting on the...
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    Stuck in carlisle pa!

    My LL and LA is currently at 102. Ya don't hear me going on about it. This ain't my first rodeo.
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    Stuck in carlisle pa!

    Stuck in Florida. Stuck in Carlisle. You seem to get stuck a lot. Now you're gonna be stuck in Taylor. Life is what you make it.
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    I am considering getting back in the Game

    I would think that if turning miles was the major objective, then A. Blair would be the clear choice.
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    The search for a humane way to kill

    I don't know what all the fuss is over youth in Asia. (Benny Hill reference, sorry) Many states use the single injection method used to put down pets and other animals, but it does take considerable longer for death to occur. It's essentially like taking an overdose of sleeping pills, you...
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    Freight rates and fuel prices!

    I don't pretend to know everything there is to know about being a true "IOO", but my brother has been one for more than 20 years, my stepdad was one for nearly that long, and his ex-wife, who I have known longer than my stepdad has, is a broker and has been for 40 years. You might be surprised...
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    Freight rates and fuel prices!

    It's probably a good thing that you're done in this thread, because as Doggie Daddy correctly pointed out, as usual you are dead wrong. The notion that leased drivers are somehow "less" of a driver or "less" than a "true" IOO is ridiculous in the same way that day cab drivers are less of a...
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    Who should you use to send Hazmat?

    Greezus, Phil. You said it yourself, it's a simple question, what is the minimum information required on the B.O.L? Not what all is required amongst all of the shipping papers, but the minimum required on the BOL. Emergency Response information is required to be WITH the shipping papers, but...
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    Who should you use to send Hazmat?

    It wouldn't be wrong or incorrect to add those, but they are not required in the example posed by Moot.
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    Who should you use to send Hazmat?

    UN or NA ID number, Proper Shipping Name, Hazard Class or Division Number (plus the Sub Class or Division Number in parentheses if the material has one), Packing Group, Total Quantity in weight or as otherwise appropriate, and Total Number and Type of Packages. 1 Drum UN1263 Paint 3 I...
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    New Load One Gold Rewards Program!

    You snooze you looze.
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    New Load One Gold Rewards Program!

    This is what I've got:
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    New Load One Gold Rewards Program!

    I got 250 points for Fun Trivia #3 Question 2.
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    Cargo Theft, estimated to be 35 billion a year.

    I was at a truck stop recently where a tractor trailer driver got fuel, pulled forward like you're supposed to, and then went inside for a few minutes. He went back outside to find someone had driven off with his truck. Might not matter with some trucks, since a small number of keys fit a large...
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    Shooting at Wisconsin Sikh temple

    I read where the police said he had tattoos suggesting a possible connection, and the meanings of the tattoos are being investigated.
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    New Load One Gold Rewards Program!

    I currently have 9250 points. (Not that I think the thread should head in the direction of point listings)
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    Shooting at Wisconsin Sikh temple

    Don't know about any drugs, yet. He was in the Army from 1992-1998. A sergeant demoted to specialist, was a Hawk missile repairman and then a psychological operations specialist. Left the Army with a less-than honorable discharge in October of '98. He is 40 years old.
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