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Thank you for doing that research. Diane and I appreciate the info as I'm sure many others will too. However, don't be too quick to assume that TA is not making money off the fuel they sell us. No way they are giving it away. Even at the nice discount we receive, they are making enough to...

The investigation of the New York City bus crash continues as does the law enforcement crack down on tour buses that the crash inspired. Several raw statistics are included in this New York DOT press release. In 1,286 inspections, 96 buses and 124 drivers were "taken off the road." I presume...

The purpose of requiring them must be balanced against the negative effects of having them, which is what inspired the law suit mentioned above.

News story: FMCSA Seeks Comments on EOBR's and Driver Harrassment Why not just equip the EOBR's with an off switch that can be used when we are out of service and off duty?

A key selling point of this truck is the low mileage (287,000). Glen picked up this truck as a repo right about the time that used truck prices had bottomed. It was not in the best of shape then but those who know Glen Rice also know that he would quickly bring it into tip-top condition...

There is nothing scientific, accurate or reliable about most internet polls and certainly not about this one. There are a number of former white-collar or office-job workers who now work as expediters but do not participate in the Open Forum. Of the ones I know, none of them entered the...

Excerpt from my blog today: While driving today, I experienced several hours of maximum satisfaction. The weather was beautiful, the winds were mild, spring-green foliage covered the Tennessee countryside, freeway traffic was light, the road was smooth, the truck engine hummed and the tires...

I answered "No" in the poll but I had delivery exprience that qualifies under Brisco's definition; that was a newspaper route I had when I was a boy. I was an independent contractor with the newspaper and an owner-operator with a bicycle. A CDL was not required. Unlike expediting, I collected...

I don't think it would be given for free but I may be wrong. Maybe someone who works in a hospital today can tell us for sure. My belief is that in these days of medical malpractice and legal liability, staff is under strict orders to NEVER provide treatment, medication or supplies of any kind...

Please be careful, Brisco, to not assume facts. No one at FDCC has ever talked to me or any driver I know about boosting my income. In orientation and the numerous training classes Diane and I have attended at company headquarters over the years, the topic of boosting our income has never come...

There is an extra charge for that.

Let's pretend that when I made that delivery to that hospital I scraped the back of my hand on a door and got a bleeding cut when moving the cart through. If I asked someone who had the power to provide it for the simple favor of giving me a band-aid, do you think I would have received one...

Sigh... I have mentioned in several posts in this thread that the person in question was NOT A NURSE. She (female) was the director of a research project. Not to open another aspect (can of worms) of this event -- oh well, why not. OK then, to open another aspect of this event, offering a...

The man has just 39 posts compared to your 293 and to thousands of posts by some who frequent the Open Forum and somehow manage to succeed in the business. He's not exactly putting more miles on his mouse pointer than he is on his rig.

I'm just wondering if it was an installation failure instead of a failure of the Qualcomm device itself. If some hack took shortcuts with the Qualcomm install it might be said that the failure was caused by the Qualcomm unit when it really was the hack that is to blame. That's what is behind my...

What happened to Molly? Did she pass?

Before going too far down this road, it would be important to know for sure that Qualcomm caused the problem. How exactly does your friend know that Qualcomm caused the problem? Who told him, and how does that person know?

People have different beliefs when it comes to money and the value of their labor and skills. They have different beliefs when it comes to marketing, reputation and customer service too. These topis are something every business person needs to work through in one's own mind. When I was a...

You are talking about the major chains that offer these services. They will tell you they make little or no money on fuel but I am not prepared to accept that on their say so alone. If fuel does not cover the expenses, what does? Look at how these chains have grown in their service offerings...

I cannot disagree as it is Diane's and my own experience to have been White Glove flagged before we hauled even one load of any kind. In the minds of the powers that were at the time, we "earned" our WG flag by presenting ourselves well in an interview at company headquarters (easily done...