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RE: Speaking of T/Stops Petro Truck Stops Sold to I again say thank you to our truck stop-informed people for sharing information gained from their truck stop management experience. This is truly fascinating stuff. Keep it coming! Regarding razor-thin margins, I have to wonder how much a truck...

RE: does your carrier have to pay for the load off As FedEx Custom Critical contractors since 2003, Diane and I have had virtually zero complaints about getting paid for all miles driven. On occasion, the pay has come up short on certain HAZMAT loads require us to take a longer bypass around a...

RobsDad, What are your expectations regarding money and miles? How did you come to form them?

About vinyl graphics life expectancy, we plan on getting five years out of the graphics and then replacing them with identical graphics. We plan to drive our truck ten years. We might repaint the whole thing after five years also, depending on how the paint looks then.

>Speak of the devil, Phil. An identical truck (graphics are >different) is in the teams wanted section of the >classifieds. Lotsa toys and gadgets and such. Maybe trying >to compete with yours? ;) > >Nevermind that last sentence. I just realized the one in the >ad was White Glove. >...

Note to newbies: It is wise to keep a detailed run journal starting with your very first load. You can later enter the info into a spreadsheet and use it like shown above. That way, a few years into the business, if you happen to be visiting with say three drivers that have lately had more than...

A review of 510 loads we ran in D, DR and CR units since August, 2003 shows no new trend or pattern in canceled loads, or dry runs as our carrier calls them. There are not enough dry runs in our run total to do a meaningful trend analysis, with one possible exception. More dry runs occured on a...

RE: Speaking of T/Stops Petro Truck Stops Sold to >I would've been happier had Petro bought TA Ditto

SickDog40, Consider painting the front bumper, fenders (but not all the way to the top) and fairings dark blue or purple. That will give the truck a firmer stance on the ground and bring out the chrome (one person's opinion of course). Reefer Hauler, The graphics on our truck are vinyl. The...

RE: Truck Stops This is good stuff. You truck stop guys are putting up some very interesting information and views. Keep it coming!

So, nightcreacher, you changed your driving practices and your profits are up? Dude! You're doing it all wrong. The secret to success in expediting is to buy a truck and then wait for the roast chicken to fly into your mouth.

Questions and comments about popular computer and handheld navigation programs are ongoing in the Open Forum. It occured to me to gather together a handful of expediters with their products of choice to put these products to the test. An ExpeditersOnline and/or Expedite NOW article about real...

Was the trailer lettered with the FedEx logo? If not, maybe it was not a FedEx-approved trailer at all.

Spotted this truck at TA in Ontario today when we went there for showers and then left to set up for tomorrow's pick up. The truck was buttoned up so I was unable to talk to the driver(s). The graphics and chrome on this SST-100 are the nicest I've seen on one of those "Jeff Jones specials."

It might be fun and informative to readers if some of us got togther with our current versions of our mapping software and ran a real-world test through them......humm.......I sense an ExpeditersOnline and/or Expedite NOW article rising out of this. Hummmmmm. Yep. This is a good idea. It's...

swiftyexp, Thank you for sharing your truck stop management background with us. I hope you share a lot more of what you know. We use truck stops all the time for fuel and showers, at least, and sometimes more. I would very much like to learn more about the truck stop business as truck stop...

Correction: It is about 60 miles from the TA to the campground, not 40. Forgive the typo.

>I here ya .. the a team is those guys that everyone loves to >hate..:7 >But hey ...They never really bugged me ..Does he embellish ? >sure , exaggerate? absolutly...He's a freakin writer...but >he's usually positve, to counter the negative on here ...so >whats the prob ?? i dont know...

Until I saw this thread, I did not realize the Trucker's Poem thread had been removed. For the record, all I did was post a simple little poem that had nothin to do with any Open Forum member or industry issue. Others turned the thread into something different. Do I dare repost the poem?

We use CoPilot Truck laptop version and Delorme Street Atlas USA. Both will miss an address every now and then. CoPilot seems to get it right more often. For example, in Ontario, CA, the road by the TA truck stop is Millikan Ave. CoPilot shows it is a through street going north to Foothill...