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Notice how the story starts off with a firm foundation in Christianity, and quickly denigrates into the den of mental health professionals? There ya go. From the frying pan into the deep fat fryer. No wonder the kid's FUBARED.

Ah, got it. Yeah, it's the vehicle that gets leased, not the driver. If they own the vehicle, then the whole leasing thing won't apply. Sorry about that. I read it wrong.

I order it from igourmet.com But I also just found Devon and Clotted cream on Amazon and at the English Tea Store. I order lots of stuff from iGourmet. They're probably the biggest importer we've got, so even if they don't have something they can get it. I don't carry it in the truck, so I...

Exactly. And that's really how most loads are bid out, anyway. I wouldn't imagine that you run across many bid loads that would have a FSC then added to the bid. I'm not looking at bid boards very often, but I've never seen it. The FSC really only comes into play with carriers who have...

I drive my own vehicle and I'm leased to Panther.

James West of Australia has been receiving e-mails from the Tran Family in Florida for years. One problem: he doesn't know the Trans because he's the wrong James West. However, this year, he's accepting their annual invitation and joining their Thanksgiving. West, a 28-year-old from Sydney...

Yeah, Cheri, except the pasties aren't little like perogis are. At least the ones I've seen. Each one is a meal in itself. They're like a cross between a calzone and a large Hot Pocket. Except calzones are made with essentially pizza dough, and pasties are made with essentially a pie crust...

Every carrier will, absolutely, insist on leasing. It's a DOT requirement, unless the carrier owns the equipment. If you "sign on" with a carrier, you're "leasing" on with them. In order to haul interstate property in a commercial motor vehicle, or with interstate authority, the vehicle must...

You could go on and one right down to the tires and axle grease that they didn't pay for but are charging the customer for, and it wouldn't make any difference. When we lease on to a carrier we are providing things like pallet jacks, reefers, trucks, tires, fuel injectors (you get my point) in...

Mine's an older Garmin and I can only add one stop-off along the route. So customization is very limited in my case. But most of the newer units allow several stop-offs, like 50 more with many of them, to allow you to customize (a.k.a. force your will onto the thing). Some units allow you to...

If you're on a percentage-based contract, you'd better make it your business, because it absolutely is. Because it's 100% not their money, and it was money collected expressly for the purpose of offsetting the cost of fuel for whomever is paying for the fuel. The FSC was invented because of...

No, but the person buying the fuel often waits 2-3 weeks for that FSC money to be paid at settlement time. The fact that the carrier is fronting the money is not a factor, as far as I'm concerned. One of the things we as contractors pay a hefty price to the carrier for is for them to pay us in a...

There are some threads in the tech forum about laptops versus standalone units. Some of the laptop users are laughably vigorous in their defense of using the laptop. As Cheri noted, the time and distraction it takes to zero in and focus on the laptop screen, actually on a small section of it...

First of all, I want to make it clear to those who may not know, that haggis and :censoredsign:gοt are not the same dish. It may have read that way. :censoredsign:gοt is the meatball thing. Haggis is something altogether different. Haggis is sheep and/or lamb innards stuffed into a sheep's stomach and then boiled...

Rules are rules. Gotta go by the rules. If we had TSA personnel thinking on their own instead of following the rules, and if someone with a bomb or somethings gets by, whoever let 'em through might get fired. So, they'll go by the rules, same as Panther Dispatch and Safety, and check their...

Actually, I've only visited briefly, back in the early to mid 70's, but we were only in London for three days. It was part of a two week European tour of the Cincinnati Youth Symphony Orchestra. We spent time in several countries, giving concerts almost every night. One of the highlights was the...

The people with the most difficult time acclimating to expediting are drivers of tractor-trailers from general trucking. Those who enter expediting in a van may be a little better at adjusting to the life of an expediter, as they got out of the truck and into a van for some specific reasons...

To the owner/operator, nothing. The whole reason for the FSC coming into being in the first place was many shippers and carriers had contracted rates set in place, but rising fuel prices rapidly made those contracted rates unacceptable to the haulers of the freight. The contracts couldn't just...

Nothing, but it's all rapidly downhill after that. According to the Titanic Awards, the awards given in celebration of the worst in travel, Britain snags the title of "World's Worst National Cuisine." It received 25.1 percent of the first place votes. The USA was a distant second with 10.3...

There are seven continents, listed from largest to smallest: Asia Africa North America South America Antarctica Europe Australia America - 4 dictionary results A·mer·i·ca /əˈmɛrɪkə/ [uh-mer-i-kuh] –noun 1. United States 2. North America 3. South America 4. Also called The...