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When Christians want to inject their religion, morals or beliefs into public policy and laws, they quickly and vociferously point to all those ancillary documents penned by the Founding Fathers, that go on and on about God and religion, as clear evidence that we are a nation founded on...

We have an immigration and naturalization policy that gives people a very strong incentive to come here to give birth to their children. We set the parameters, and then get mad at those who want to take advantage of them. It would be like PilotFlyingJ getting mad at vanners for only putting 15...

Uhm, I'm gonna go with... sometime around 640 years ago. :D

One of my most fondly remembered highlights of the Expo a few years ago was meeting and talking with Jeff.

Actually, those children aren't "CRIMINAL ALIEN children," they are US citizens, children born here in the US of illegal alien parents.

Oddly enough, it's not illegal to give the test in a foreign language. The FMCSA states that in order to be able to obtain a CDL, all you have to be able to do is, "read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and...

We are a Christian nation. If you don't believe me, ask a Christian. We The People are chiefly Christians, which make up the bulk of the nation, the government, and the military. Everything Christians do is in the name of God, or is supposed to be, and since We The People are a Christian nation...

Panther has a contracted rate per mile with its contractors. If the contracted rate for a cargo van is 77 cents, then that's what it is. The load offer will state your contracted rate, and it will also state what the FSC is for the load. If the FSC for the load is 19 cents, then the load pays 19...

How you say it is implied, how one receives and interprets it is inferred. :D I don't think anyone here is saying that, either, but some seem to have a problem with the UK not letting him in because of what he has said. The UK can do that if they want. But he said it himself in the telephone...

hehe They're not likely to bother you in a parking lot. In the morning after a cool night you might see a rattler or two sunning themselves trying to get warm. Don't bother them and they won't bother you. You can often find rattlesnakes in the grassy areas surrounding the truckstops, though, so...

You have a right to voice your opinion, but you don't have the right to travel internationally, as he is asserting. If a country doesn't want to let you in, there's nothing you can do about it. Well, you can whine about it, and threaten a lawsuit, but in the end you're not gettin' in. You have...

They use the EIA Website, but it's always for the previous week's average, good or bad. Last week the EIA average was $3.33. It's currently $3.407, and that's what Panther will use beginning next Tuesday, even if the EIA average next week is lower.

Thanks, and I know. Regulation, price-fixing and/or collusion is the only way I know of. Carriers (and by extension, shippers) will only pay drivers juuuuust enough to keep them on the road to serve the will of the carrier. That's the meat and potatoes of the trucking industry. They'll pay you...

Tarantulas, scorpions and rattlesnakes. Yes, they're down there, all over. Scorpions can easily be found under logs or other debris, under rocks, but also in basements and houses. Texas has like 18 species of scorpions, but only one is statewide. The farther south and west you go, the more...

Condoning atrocities in the name of God is the bread and butter of US foreign policy, the US government, the military, and largely that of the American people, whether any of them will admit it or not.

The above numbers come directly from the Panther DriverWeb Website and are current as of the time I posted them. They were posted to the DriverWeb at 1/20/2011 8:13:46 AM $3.33 - $1.25 = $2.08 $2.08 divided by .19 cents a mile is 10.947 MPG, which when rounded up becomes 11 MPG...

Well, I don't know that I'd say it has to effect the price, but the end result is, yeah, it has to, unless there is price-fixing and collusion going on. That's how supply and demand works. The amount of freight available is the "demand" for shipments, and the supply of trucks to haul it is what...

The ScanGauge isn't accurate insofar as MPG, and they'll tell you so (in the manual). I'm not sure about the original model, but the ScanGauge II has a plus/minus thing when you go to MORE|FILLUP and tell it you just filled the tank. It will tell you how much it thinks you should have put in...

In addition to Moot's link, here's a very comprehensive set of Commercial Drivers' License Practice Tests. Eight different versions of the HAZMAT test. Read the manual, study it, then take the tests. Until you can correctly answer all of them with ease, you need to keep studying. When taking...

This guy in Germany is buying tarantulas from a South African supplier who gets them from Mexico, and then exports them from Germany into the US. Why doesn't he just go to the Flying J parking lot in Laredo and scoop up all the tarantulas he wants? They're all over the place down there, all...