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I took a load from Farmington Hills, MI to Kansas City, MO. It was a 1500 Tuesday pickup with a very generous weather-related 2300 Wednesday delivery time. It was also two skids of plastic parts that weighed a total of 300 pounds. I think I'd have rather had 3000 pounds of ball bearings. Me...

It means that dispatchers routinely answer a question that wasn't asked. You ask them a simple question, and instead of giving you a simple answer, they instead answer some other question entirely, often a question that they think you were really asking. Like in this case, where the question you...

You will never had safe (secure and private) e-mail on company-owned equipment, be it a Quamcomm or a computer or anything else owned by the company. Best for e-mail is a laptop (or iPad or smartphone).

While I appreciate your views and your answer, you nonetheless (in a natural-born dispatcher fashion) answered a completely different question than the one I asked. The question wasn't whether or not you'd object to the ads for those other religions being aired, but whether you'd be sad, or...

I think Iowa State cops are a little more informed on things, but small town cops in Iowa apparently just don't see many single-plated vehicles. Iowa has no bordering states which issue a single plate (although legislation was introduced in Jan 2011 to have Illinois move to a single plate...

Diet sodas have Fructose Corn Syrup in them? Seriously? :rolleyes:

I wonder how sad it would be if Fox refused to allow ads promoting Judaism, or Islam, or Satanism. <snort>

I dunno. $9.39 plus tea and tax for a plateload of artery Spackle, soup and salad bar doesn't seem out of line. All of that for half that price and I'd be wondering if there was any real food in it.

Your wife's car falls into the classic "severe" driving conditions. Most manufacturers recommend 5000 miles for severe driving conditions. I'd dig out the owner's manual and see what it says. Even in summer, short trips won't allow the engine and the oil to be completely warmed up. If the oil is...

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I-80 near LaSalle, IL. Whiteout conditions, heavy snow and wind. Very kewl heavy lightening. Icy roads, too. On my way to Kansas City. Chicago was fun. The Interstate behind me and in front of me has been closed.

Which is why I maintain that a cargo van from Kentucky getting a warning in Iowa for not having a front license plate, and for having window tinting that is too dark for Iowa, from a local cop, doesn't need to be reported to my carrier. When the cop tells you that you didn't break any laws, and...

Use a good synthetic oil and reduce oil changes to once a month or once every 6 weeks. Weekly oil changes is nuts for several reasons. Whoever told you to change your oil every 3000 miles, slap 'em. The only people who recommend 3000 mile oil changes are the people who make a living changing oil. :D

Do you really want to talk about whether or not I wore a uniform, or do you want to discuss the issues at hand? Because, I gotta tell ya, I cannot fathom how whether or not I wore a uniform has any bearing whatsoever on how we as a nation treat our returning soldiers, now or in the past.

Yes, I know, but it's not really my place to run around publicly stating where other EO members are parked. I didn't see you up in the cab area when I pulled up, otherwise I'd have knocked. I cover my windows not to be unsociable, but either for privacy to sleep, like I did Saturday, or because...

It's probably the exhaust gas actuator. It can get corroded and quit working, or even break off. Far as I know, you can't replace just the actuator, and have to replace the whole thing.

I really don't want one sentence of what I wrote to completely derail the points I was making, and the other parts of the thread, but yeah, there's more to it than a fashionable yellow ribbon. The ribbons actually meant something for about three weeks. While the yellow ribbon has many...

The turbocharger is actually very easy to find. You know that big air intake hose that connects to the box that contains the engine air filter? The other end of the hose connects to the turbocharger right underneath the heat shield. The part number for the turbo is 5142494AA

Yes Probably doesn't sound right, but it's true, nonetheless. The whole "support the soldiers even if you don't support the war," thing is a straight-up feel-good absurdity. It's like saying, "I support what you're doing, even though I don't support what you're doing." America has a national...

I get more loads that pay better when I'm not in the "freight lanes." Give me the fringes any day.