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  1. Turtle

    Free 25 bucks no strings attached

    Yeah, there are strings, one of which is giving up your SS#, but, the outfit is legit. It's a Steve Case enterprise mainly targeted at Facebook users, where like PayPal won't charge for transactions to send friend money, and it's mostly a loss leader for the eventual offering of an RME credit...
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    How Would This Work?

    It's unfortunate that he waited around for several hours, but he's not likely to be compensated for that. If he delivered his first load at 1300 and the one they asked him to wait around on wasn't supposed to pick up until 1800, then his detention wouldn't start until 2000 (2 hrs at Panther). So...
  3. Turtle

    Inverter or Generator?

    Because a Sprinter will not properly charge AGM deep cycle batteries, I currently have three Wal Mart Everstart Maxx batteries, 125 amp hours each. They run the Espar, Microfridge (fridge and freezer) and microwave, laptop, two external hard drives, printer, 5 florescent lights (usually only one...
  4. Turtle

    What a joke of a company

    So was the poster's original, first-ever, post. It was, essentially, the same post as this one.
  5. Turtle

    Female columnist sets poor example for female professionals

    Yeah, it's Pilot Travel Centers, and they service both professional and quite UNprofessional drivers, business travelers and pleasure travelers, and families on and off vacation. But it's still a truck stop, and people who go there know what to expect. It would be different if the magazine was...
  6. Turtle

    Female columnist sets poor example for female professionals

    I'll give ya that, but it's still a truck stop, and the magazine is targeted at truck drivers and the truck driving industry. That's why it's called "Challenge Magazine - Challenging the Industry" and it's why there's a big rig on the cover. Yeah, and a truck stop is one of them. Well, that's...
  7. Turtle

    Inverter or Generator?

    Make sure you check out the expected lifetime running hours of those portables, tho.
  8. Turtle

    Female columnist sets poor example for female professionals

    How does the article set a poor example for female professionals? Would it be OK if the author was a man? Would you prefer that when she quoted Montoya that she have changed his words, instead of actually quoting him? I think it would set an extremely poor example for female professionals for...
  9. Turtle

    Beware in Dallas

    Instead of the Flying J, I was gonna park under a cool shade tree and take advantage of the cool grass Saturday morning after I made my delivery. I looked and looked, and finally found a tree. It was way out yonder over thar. But, hey, if the Col says do the shade tree, there must be sumtin' to...
  10. Turtle

    Rain-X

    Aquapel looks pretty good. I've heard of it, but never saw it anywhere. Apparently, it lives up to its hype. It's used more by service professionals and auto detailers than consumers. Not sure why, except that maybe a single application of Aquapel costs about the same as an entire bottle of...
  11. Turtle

    Panther inconsistancies

    Well, when you're not on a PRO you don't matter. The split second you POD out they want nothing to do with you. Then, soon as you accept the next load, they want to smother you. It's the Panther Way.
  12. Turtle

    Free New York City Truck Route Map

    The original link still works. It takes you to the main page that talks about the routes, then about half way down there are two links to download the PDF file, as well as the link to request a paper map.
  13. Turtle

    Stop! Read! Sign! Pass It On!!

    Why sign it? It's not even a petition. It's a (largely disjointed and incoherent) rant full of stuff that wacko talk radio put into the author's head while he was half listening (the author even got wrong the salient, push-button nutjob issues, how is that even possible?). It's all over the...
  14. Turtle

    New $5 Bill

    Probably linked to a bad link, or to a site that doesn't allow hotlinking. You're generally going to have to upload the picture file to EO, or to your own picture hosting site (I use Photobucket).
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    Panther inconsistancies

    When you are not on a PRO you phone calls are automatically routed to Driver Relations, instead of Dispatch. On the weekends, especially overnight, there is no one in Driver Relations. There usually is someone in Driver relations in the 9-5 range, tho.
  16. Turtle

    Power Inverters?

    Yeah, MSW (Modified Sine Wave) inverters will do that sometimes, especially the cheap ones. There are several things to try. Try to determine where the noise is getting into the system, through the antenna or the power. If the noise is entering through the antenna: 1. Ground the chassis of the...
  17. Turtle

    Barack who?

    Obama cannot win the presidency in a general election. Against other liberals, he wins, but when it's for-real, he doesn't stand a chance.
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    New $5 Bill

  19. Turtle

    FEDEX CC Recruiting unresponsive!

    Four messages at three different recruiters? Yup, here's yer sign. I'd try 3 or 4 somebody else's. You never know which one's for you until to talk to them. FECC is most definitely not for everyone. I wouldn't get too worked up over it regardless. Whoever you go with, you're your own business...
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    60/40?/fair?

    Huh? It's not a question of waiting a couple of hours to get loaded or be setting at a truck stop. If you're on detention, duh, you're not at the truck stop, you're waiting to be loaded. Nobody is gonna walk off a pro due to detention so they can go sit at a truck stop, instead.
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