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First note that weight limits for any kind of truck vary within states, depending on the road you are on. In my home state of Minnesota, for example, the road at the end of our driveway has an axle weight limit of nine tons (18,000 lbs per axle), but in the spring thaw, it is reduced to seven...

And even if he has a way of getting first hand information, why bash your former carrier? Doing so disrespects everyone who has selected that carrier and leaves one looking like an embittered, person with an ax to grind.

The real story is you can to to Panther HQ and FedEx HQ any week and see each other's trucks in each other's parking lots. People move back and forth, and forth and back, for a host of reasons; some as slight as being offended by a dispatcher on a given day; some as important as being given...

It appears to me that your research consists more of wishful thinking than actual research. The industry does not care how you feeel or what you understand. Carriers are not going to change their ways because you think they should see things the way you see them and put freight on your truck...

An upcoming article in Expedite NOW will interest you and, I think, most other cargo van operators who want to stay comfortable in their sleeper without idling. See this

I would expect that it is both. Knocking on doors, making calls, making visits, and doing professional networking is something we have both done in the past and done well. If the need to change rose, we are up to the task. But for now, and hopefully forever, we are content to wait for the beep...

So, are you going to provide some details that are useful to others, or just keep speaking in generalities that people cannot act on? Just how does it work to do this backhaul thing you do? And if it is such a good thing, why are more people not doing it?