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It was not Christmas Day, it was a team at Landstar, fully credentialed, fully equipped, who have learned where the good freight can be found, what agents dispatch it, and have earned the trust of those agents. Establishing ourselves within the Landstar system worked out partly the way we...

Do you have information to verify this? I have been looking carefully for statements by the players that confirm this very thing; that they are talking about personal deductions. But nothing I have seen confirms it. Yes, it stands to reason that the severe impact of a $35,000 deduction cap...

As I said, details are sketchy. A cap on Schedule A deductions would be less threatening but it would also fail to raise the kind of revenue Congress and the president need to raise to reduce the deficit. I keep searching for details about this proposal but find precious few. Yet I know that if...

I don't know that being solo or team matters. Deadhead is deadhead. When considering a load, Diane and I do not think about percentage of deadhead. We think about total miles (unloaded + loaded) and total pay for the run. It would not matter if the run was 10 percent empty and 90 percent...

I can offer a general answer to the question. It is that freight rates would have to quickly and dramatically increase to replace the money we would lose by losing deductible business expenses above $35,000. It will take a bit of spreadsheet work to figure out how much rates would need to rise.

The last time I started a post here in the General Forum that had the potential to go political and end up in the Soapbox Forum, it remained here because Open Forum Members did a fantastic job of honoring my request to stay focused on business and off the politics. I thank members for that and...