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I don't know if putting the brakes on until we "fully understanding what happened" is something I would call "fear" or some kind of overreaction. I'd call it prudent. If anything can be learned from these accidents, then why not learn it?

I would take a load to Concordia, KS for the same rate as one to Chicago, especially if the one to Concordia was picking up in Williston, ND which I've had happen. I also had a load from Salt Lake City to Concordia. Jumped on that one, too. Every time I've delivered to Concordia I've gotten...

2000 in a team van, as an average, maybe, but not 3000 miles a week. No way is a van gonna get 150,000 loaded miles a year. Not at any kind of profitable rate, anyway.

Ah, yes, like this... :D

Part of the problem is they can't just walk into the room and inspect the nuclear rods, since they are down in the reactor. So they really don't know the exact situation from moment to moment. One unit's rods were briefly exposed, which isn't good. At another unit they found radioactive cesium...

We have two scenarios: Scenario One: the overwhelmingly vast majority, 98%, 99%, probably 99.9934% of all the drivers, owner/operators, fleet owners, brokers, carriers and dispatchers in the expediting industry have been doing it wrong all these years. No one knows what they are doing, what...

I don't know if we should worry about it, anymore than we should be worrying about the sun eventually exhausting all its fuel and gradually growing in size to envelope the Earth completely and burns the Earth to a crisp, because both are gonna happen. Better to worry about the next SuperMoon and...

It's a facade. I'm really an idiot. Yes, I have, and I know how it applies within the scope of a lease contract with a carrier. You didn't see it? But you posted it yourself. How could you not see it? Yes, exactly, and you showed up to a shipper with equipment that did not meet the standards...

Believing things like what? The amount of ejecta can be very accurately measured, as can the actual speed of rotation of the Earth. The Earth's rotation is astoundingly steady down to the millionths of a millisecond normally, with small variations being caused by very large weather systems (like...

My first van was a short wheelbase E-350, just like a lot of them out there. When I had 2 skids in there, they were pushed up to the backs of the seats, no place to sleep. My second load ever was Chicago to San Francisco, and I had to grab sleep in motels along the way. After the second motel I...

Large volcanic eruptions like Krakatau (20 cubic km of ash) and Tambora (150 cu km), and even relatively smaller ones like Pinetubo (10 cu km), slow the Earth's rotation a little bit. It is estimated that Mt Mazama, the volcano that created Crater Lake in Oregon, slowed the Earth's rotation by...

If you understand Islam, then you know the answer to that. It's complicated, but an oversimplification is Muslims believe everything is preordained by Allah, everything. Everything that has happened, or ever will happen, is by the direct hand of Allah. Whatever you do as a Muslims you are doing...

Huh? What's an "ace's 2"?

That Judge Judy, she's a smart cookie. Irrelevant, since you are contractually obligated to have 8-feet of cargo space at all times. If you don't have that available because one of you needs to sleep, then you are in breach of contract. Then you aren't a team, because a team van must have...

Courtesy of a USGS press conference this afternoon, the Honshu, Japan earthquake ruptured a 180 mile long by 50 mile wide section of the Earth's crust on ocean floor of the Pacific plate, bumping 250 miles of coastline. This resulted in the Japanese coastline having been moved permanently by...

A turbocharger combined with silica (sand) makes a very efficient sandblaster, and a K&N filter famously allows silica (one of the most abundant minerals on the planet) to pass through their filters unimpeded. Not a problem with a conventional engine, but it's a real booger with a TDI motor.

F-Bomb Costs Chrysler Social Media Agency Its Job - AppScout I do think it's ironic that the Motor City, the car capitol of the world, has the worst roads in the world. Baghdad has better roads than Detroit. Maybe that's why Detroiters can't drive.

My two cents is, no thread should ever be put to bed. Every thread will die its own death. And certainly no thread should ever be put to bed because nothing positive is currently coming from it, post #106 being the obvious exception, as its 100% all positive, of course. There is a wealth of...

I love that phrase, trust but verify. It's a politically correct oxymoron that means, "don't trust".

K&N air filter? With a turbocharger? <shudder>