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The key letter in GCVW is the C: standing for combination. Meaning what the van is rated for loaded and pulling a loaded trailer. G.M. lists it as GCWR: Gross Combination Weight Rating. GVWR Gross Vehicle Weight Rating only includes the total weight of the vehicle, loaded. Jr, if you are...

Ovm, does this Robert Earl Keen video resemble your house on Christmas Day? YouTube - Robert Earl Keene's Merry Christmas from the Family

There are some great lines in that article: * Shares jump more than 20 percent * Teamsters blame Goldman for troubles My favorite: "That lender group has a pretty vested interest in seeing them not go bankrupt," said Morningstar analyst Anthony Dayrit. I guess that lender group also has no...

What Pete Rose did directly involved baseball.

Re: 1st post: any companies give you complete choice over when, where, if you take a I would estimate that 70% of my loads are dispatched between 14:00 and 19:00 for immediate pickup. That means driving at night.

What type of jacket and how much do they cost? Con-Way Now gave me a jacket after 5 years. I went to the Panther website, are these the jackets? What about the matching glove?

I don't see YRC's demise having an effect on "us" (expediters). Maybe for a very short term when shipper's freight is stranded in YRC's system. There aren't many union LTL carriers left. ABF isn't exactly a labor sponge. Younger Teamsters may have to start over at a non-union carrier. The...

Can I revise my March death date prediction to January?

GCWR: Gross Combination Weight Rating is the total weight of a loaded vehicle and trailer. I'm guessing that GCVW stands for Gross Combination Vehicle Weight which also would include the total weight of a loaded vehicle and trailer.

Packmule sent me this youtube link showing Allen West, a candidate for congress in Florida's 22nd congressional district in 2010. YouTube - Congressional Candidate Lieutenant Colonel Allen West

I believe it is a short term strategy to speed up YRC's demise and prevent layoffs at healthy LTL companies. YRC should be dead and gone by March at which time LTL rates will slowly rise.

It appears your fleet is growing at an astronomical rate resulting in too much time being spent on driver orientation activities. Or is it high driver turnover? I know of one large expedite carrier that uses an automated phone answering system. Each incoming call is directed to an electronic...

I have become the "go to guy" for cool places. I think I'll leave the mundane stuff for somebody else. What brought me to Carhenge was a delivery to the Box Butt General Hospital (oops I forgot an "e") in Alliance. The freight was a life saving filter assembly for their kidney dialysis...

This week while traveling around Nebraska I stumbled upon Carhenge. Carhenge is a huge autolithic structure located outside of Alliance, Nebraska; on state Hwy. 87. Being that I had just completed a delivery in Nowhere, Nebraska; I figured I had at least 20 minutes to kill before the next load...

Sounds like a couple of Robert (call me Bob) Cat deliveries. I delivered to the new Bobcat facility in the S.E. corner of Bismarck Monday morning. Ya, its cold up dare!

And a Wisconsin hiker with a cue-ball head He's wishing he was home in a Wisconsin bed But there's fifteen feet of snow in the east Colder than a well digger's asp And it's colder than a well digger's asp Tom Waits (for no man)

It's about risk, rewards and freedom. Everyone's tolerance and needs for these are different.

Any van drivers currently on the Akron board? I am curious as to the number of vans on the Akron board today. Any First Outs? I am considering moving, yea that's the ticket, relocate to Akron.

Not only did you um, ah digress, but you ummm used a..ah bad word. Tender young minds may um,...chance upon this, ah...vulgar reference to um...........sexual intercourse. Perhaps a uh, more appropriate word would be bolt. But um, ah using that particular term could be construed as carrier...

The problem with increasing the minimum wage is it tends to raise all hourly workers boats. The assistant burger flipper is now making the same per hour as the head burger flipper. So the head burger flipper gets a raise. Another problem is it increases the demand for illegals who are not...