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You might want to read again what I said. I said that it sometimes happens that dispatch calls fleet owners for help in getting loads covered. I did not say that fleet owners made Diane and me take the loads. In fact, they did not. Your experience with your fleet owner may be different. I'm...

melanieanne is not wrong, but she is not entirely right either. Diane and I drove fleet owner trucks for three years before buying a truck of our own. It sometimes happened that we declined a load offer and the fleet owners called us about the load because dispatch called them. But in our...

OK. I read the info and cannot point to information that says otherwise, but it seems counter-intuitive that something like a speeding ticket would not include CSA points. In the interest of clarification, answer me this, please: Say you happen to drive through a small town and miss the speed...

Have you seen it too? 1. The repeat load offers that we complained about a while ago seem to have stopped. Now we see an offer once and if it is declined, we don't see it again unless the pay is bumped. 2. The new crop of dispatchers that were brought in several months ago seem to have hung...

It will take more than a healthy dose of ex-lax to move that feast through. Thanks for the chuckle. Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Moot!

I would consider it very unfair if events developed as you describe above. Let me cite a real-world example. Diane and I were once in Phoenix at the Flying J with a bunch of other expediters. One team we knew well. They were from Florida and dearly wanted to get home for a reason they felt was...

We are under load on an 1,800 mile run this Thanksgiving Day.

Here's one. Check it out. Click on the truck photo to get to the info or the "New Trucks" button. The web site seems to be a little buggy but a 2009 Cascadia is there. Click around a bit if you have to to find it. ONLY 20,460 LBS! -...

A valid point. There are the rules and then there are situations that can be avoided by making certain accomodations.

Sadly, not every scale cop gets it right. Nor does every mechanic that does DOT inspections. Looking at the illustrations here, rear upper body marking (Figure 8, item 9) is clearly required for semi trailers. No such marking is shown on the illustrations for straight trucks (Figures 2-6). I...

Team or solo?

Truer words were never spoken!

Actually, I can say with all certainty that it would not have happened to me. While it can happen to anyone that a lamp seen working during a pre-trip can stop working while you are driving, it would not happen to me that it would happen a second time. If I got cited for a defective lamp and...

It's easy to form beliefs about dispatch and support them with selective memory. Drivers are fond of saying how the guaranteed way to get dispatched is to start a load of laundry, sit down in a nice restaurant or book a hotel room for the weekend. In fact, many have been offered loads after...

CSA does not change the equipment and paperwork rules (log books, truck registration, medical card, etc.). It changes the way violations are scored and tracked. Those changes are changing driver behavior such that maintaining a driver's good record may come to trump customer service. I...

Are you done now? Hypocrisy is in the eye of the beholder. I have no hope of changing your mind so, shall we let it be?

Who said anything about "without that driver's knowledge?" If I am advocating against another driver, that driver will know it and know it from me. No, I am not miffed. I would go on welfare before taking a job like that. First, the job comes with a boss. I'm self-employed because I don't...

THAT is a huge mistake! Business is business and good business is good business. It's not about feeling good or being nice. NEVER give a prospective business partner the benefit of the doubt. Check him or her out ahead of time as best you can. Make sure all the I's are dotted and T's are...

You put it in words better than I do. It is an issue exactly for the reasons you stated so well above. I know of only one other expediting company that has safety people in the field and that is LEA. Their approach is entirely different, and superior, I believe. (My information may be dated...

I can choose my friends. I can even make friends in the safety department and am inclined to do so if they operate openly and fairly. Spies come uninvited. Your argument is non sequiter (the inference does not follow from the premise). There is nothing in the 100+ CSA point driver's account to...