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Shippers have more or less always requested whatever vehicle is required for their shipments. Now that we have more and more Sprinters, they are naturally using them more and more. Shippers also tend to use the smallest truck necessary for their shipments. In many cases that's a simple cargo van.

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We had that once before and it cleared out a lot of driftwood. The problem is, a really slow economy just creates more driftwood.

OK. I read those. It's just that by using the terminology the way you are, it leaves the distinct impression that if you transport anything on the Table of Hazardous Materials, then it is HAZMAT for the purposes of having to have a CDL with a HAZMAT endorsement. That's the applicability of the...

Clearly, you are looking for a job. Like Layout said, expediting is not a job, it's a small business, with you being the owner of that business. You are your own employer, whether you drive your own or someone else's. Any benefits such as health insurance or 401k are benefits provided by your...

Apology accepted. I am curious as to why you think the definition which includes the placarding requirement is less important to what we do as truck drivers, though.

Here's how 'body count" lists work. They've been around for a ling time, because they are easy to construct. • List every dead person with even the most tenuous of connections to your subject. It doesn't matter how these people died, or how tangential they were to your subject's life. The...

My meaning was clarified in the rest of the sentence which you edited out. It was further clarified in the next paragraph. You cannot reconcile the definition I provided using HAZMAT in the terminology you are using it, because your preferred definition omits placards entirely as being important...

I must say that quoting a partial sentence out of context to make a point is very disappointing to see. I admit that when I typed that sentence I thought it might be done, but I really didn't think it would be done by you, so I left it alone and didn't reword it. Silly me.

Drive, haul, both euphemisms for "transport". I never once stated that having a CDL with a HAZMAT endorsement made whatever you are transporting magically become HAZMAT simply by virtue of the type of license you have. As Cheri noted, the problem is largely that of terminology. The term...

There are a number of carriers besides Fedex and Landstar who are quite capable and experienced in HAZMAT transportation.

A Spongebob Squarepants costume shipped from the National Aquarium in Baltimore to Disneyland. That was very strange on many levels.

I would say that you're my daddy and that you are right and that I and the people I know who do HAZMAT shipping for a living are wrong. I know I won't have to say any if that, however, because of two very simple things: the unambiguous requirement that you must have a CDL with a HAZMAT...

I'm not trying to make a case, and if I were I certainly wouldn't need to create a bridge to do so. I'm merely reiterating what the regs themselves say, without adding something that's not there, or assuming things not in evidence. In order to haul HAZMAT you must have a CDL with a HAZMAT...

Again, precise language, things like prepositional phrases. I]"The term includes ... materials designated as hazardous in the Hazardous Materials Table (see 49 CFR 172.101), ..."[/I] As opposed to materials designated as hazardous in some OTHER location. So now you know where to look to see...

Most of the carriers I know require you to pass the DOT physical, CDL or not. Even for cargo van drivers.

For most carriers it wont be a matter of the endorsement, and thus also requiring a CDL, but simply a matter of being physically qualified on the Long Form of the DOT medical examination. Most carriers require van drivers with no CDL to still pass that physical. This may not be the case with...

Was gonna hang out in Calexico, but that's insane on many levels. Main one is the weather forecast for the next week. 111 every day. No thanks. An hour west of there, here in Campo up in the mountains, it's 30-40 cooler. Another hour west of here is San Diego.

No, that's the benefit of the polyurethane. It grabs the skid enough, but not too much, and the acrylic allows an even slide when you need it.

I use Minwax Polycrylic. Benefits of polyurethane plus the hardness of acrylic.