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When you (or anyone) meet people who think they are above you, what is the problem really? Is it that they think they are above you, or is it that you think you are beneath them?

It's a good thing you never ran into Andy Griffith and Barney Fife. Both of them talked about the bullet Barney carried in his shirt pocket. They would have had hell to pay if you were around to catch them using that language.

OK. that is your right and you have made your statement. Now I'll make mine. I want readers to know that I have confidence in Mr. Martinez' reporting. This comes from reading the stories he wrote about the ammo truck that crossed into Mexico and from talking with him by phone. He strikes me as...

Intrigued, I looked into the HAZMAT and placarding issue. Notice in the news story photos the ORM-D lables on the ammo cans. Then turn to the Hazardous Materials Table in your Hazardout Materials Compliance Pocketbook. You will see that cartridges in hazard class ORM-D do not require placards...

Update: "The U.S. trucker who was detained this week by Mexican authorities with 268,000 rounds of ammunition has been taken to Mexico City by federal investigators specializing in organized crime." Story here

Granted, this driver made a wrong turn and made even more wrong moves when he knowlingly drove into Mexico with a load of ammo on board, but I am more sympathetic. There is not a driver out there who has not made a wrong turn or two or three or three hundred in his or her career. And when you...

My U.S. Army Infantry days are long behind me and I have not used a machine gun for quite some time. Weapons technology has changed over the years and I have not kept up. Looking at the photos in the news story, I see some of that ammo linked together like machine gun ammo is, but only in...

I am sorry to learn of your circumstances, blizzard, but thank you for sharing them and giving all expediters food for thought. Many expediters don't have health insurance but all expediters should. The thing about enjoying the freedom of being self-employed is that if you don't take care of...

Not much of a CB user here. Ours is off most of the time but I would not want to be without one in the truck. When it is needed, it really is needed. Studies and commentary about distracted driving say that the CB radio is different than a cell phone and not distracting. Has there been a rash...

This thread is old. For readers reading this today, notice how passport rules and requirements have changed in recent years. When considering the card v. book question, think about the cost difference being averaged out over ten years. Also think about the advantages of having a full-fledged...

In what ways are things different at C&M? What changes to your operation were you able to make? What changes were you unable to make?

I don't remember where but some time ago I posted this chart in the Open Forum for trucks. Here it is again.

We sometimes receive offers from agents who already have the loads. Other times agents call wanting to know our price. Time periods vary. Some want to know instantly and will bid even while we are on the phone with them. Others take longer depending on the customer they are dealing with. We...

Such as? Specifics? Maybe lifetime bans have been talked about and I did not pay attention because it is unlikely that I'd ever do anything that would earn a lifetime ban. But I've never heard of lifetime bans for anything. Examples?

Seventeen tornadoes have been counted by the National Weather Service by 4:40 p.m. Central Time. No injuries in the sparsely populated areas where the tornadoes developed. The storm will continue to produce tornadoes through the night, forecasters say.

If you are in or traveling through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska or Iowa now (16:00 Central Time, Saturday), or know someone who is, be sure to check the weather. This is a very dangerous storm that can produce long tracking tornadoes, similar to the storm of March 2 that killed 12 people...

"Really well" is a relative term. For those of us not in the van game, what does "really well" mean? You shocked me with your 10,000 miles a month figure. Diane and I are a team in a straight truck and that is not far from what we average in a year. A solo driver running 10,000 miles a month...

The fact is that many carriers view contractors not as human beings who are running a business but as commodities to be managed for profit. Take some time to read the FedEx Custom Critical forum. You will see numerous posts there written by people who served that company well for a decade or...

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It does not matter how honorable your motives are or how factual the post; some readers will see it as whining, crapping where you eat, biting the hand that feeds you, being disloyal to your carrier, etc. Others will see your post for what it is; a well-intentioned statement supported by the...