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We use Delorme with its GPS drvice and find it to be well worth the money. It is awesome to be able to see where you are, especially in New York city. The product significantly reduced the stress of New York City driving. But as others have mentioned, Delorme is a product for cars, not trucks...

Congratulations on your new truck purchase! Please DO keep us posted, especially about the Sprinter. Since my wife and I run in a striaght truck, we've not done an in depth analysis on that vehicle. All I know for sure is I LOVE that van. I think it's one of the coolest concepts and coolest...

JM a/k/a hotfr8recruiter, Outstanding post! Thank you for sharing the detail you did. As FedEx CC drivers my wife and I get to chat almost daily with other FedEx CC drivers we meet on the road. It's a rare treat to visit and compare notes with drivers from other carriers. The info you provided...

Great tip! I recently became aware of the cost of kingpin replacements and spec'ed a heavier duty front end on the new truck we're ordering partly for that reason. Do you think they'll EVER fix that road in Detroit (Windsor bridge). It has to be one of the worst roads in North America. When...

Smart driver! Asking BEFORE you buy.

Perhaps we're saying the same thing in two different ways. I take great satisfaction in knowing that when dispatchers pull our (wife and my) numbers, they see stats that put us above average in the fleet. I'm far more concerned with the way our numbers look on HQ's computer screen than with our...

I see EO has an article about FAST: http://www.expeditersonline.com/artman/publish/article_001699.html I'd love to hear other driver experiences on this. As one that sits in the slow line, sometimes for hours, waiting to cross the U.S./Canada border, and watches with envy other trucks whiz...

As I read the code, it's 13% of the 18,000 lbs. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/gl_codes_detail.pl?code=32-6-26

We identified our carrier of choice first and then interviewed affiliated fleet owners.

Allow me to add the word "work." The drivers that stay in service most tend to make more money than those that stay in service less. Your load acceptance practices also enter in. Regarding your question about the state of the industry, note that whatever the industry state may be, there are...

RodeHawg69 said, "....>1. Company has a "cold" attitude...you're a number, not a person...." This reply is not about TriState or the other items in RodeHawg69's post. It's about the "treat you like a number" issue; or on the flip side, "treat you like family" issue. We chose our carrier...

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It just now hit me that the Terry and Rene I see posting here are the same folks my wife and I met at the 2003 Mid America Trucking Show. At the time, we were researching a career change into trucking and had not yet heard about expediting. We stumbled upon the Freightliner of Knoxville exhibit...

---snip---After a few squabbles, spats, tiffs and >fist fights we realized that in the very close van >environment, we had best define and then separate the >personal attitudes from the business---snip--- Outstanding post that brings out important info for newbies. My wife and I thought we...

At a FedEX terminal I once picked up a company publication where I read about a FedEx Home Delivery driver (if memory serves, maybe FedEx Epxress). His truck overheated at the end of his day and he had one package left to deliver. He borrowed a bicycle and peddled 10 miles one way to complete...

>Driver with Panther here... ina straight truck with a tag >axle. ---snip--- Plus, they >won't help you if you're in snow or muddy conditions, >actually they will impede you. I got caught in some heavy >snow and had 8,500 lbs. in the box (to cross scale legally >loaded over 8,000 lbs. I...

My wife and I drive a straight truck. We have yet to meet a tractor/trailer expediter (E-unit) that has a lower gross income than we do. But we stick with straight trucks because it's not only about the money. We got into expediting for the lifestyle too. A straight truck gives us the ability to...

There are carriers out there that do not accept illegal loads themselves and do not expect their drivers to carry them. It sounds to me that you are taking risks you do not need to take. Legitimate money is easily found in this industry.

This goes a different direction than discounts but please bear with me. I once heard of an expediter that uses his American Express card to buy everything...food, fuel, supplies, repairs, everything. He then uses his credit card loyalty points to pay for overseas vacations. With American...

Good points about Canada. Remember that many of the miles you drive on runs to Canada are in the U.S. Border crossing can be a bureauctatic mess sometimes, but the runs are still profitable, at least the ones we've done. Doggie Daddy's points about the importance of accepting Canada loads are...