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What a great idea, hope you don't mind if i steal it. While I don't drive for panther, i am sittin at the "J" in Evansville Ind. and there are 8 vans here, 5 panther!! Those guys certainly do needs some love!! And on top of that, we woke up to SNOW on the ground.....brrrrrrrrrr....

nightcreacher wrote: While i have a frig full of vacuum sealed homemade food most often, I have a weak spot for good BBQ!! I can't past a BBQ place, sometimes i eat it 3-4 times a day! My GPS as their locations flagged in my Favorites!! :D

letzroc wrote: One can only hope so!! Works for me!!:D

I don't see anyone saying it is a "bed of roses", but i do see the doom and gloom on a regular basis. Yes we all will acknowledge that freight rates are down and freight is slow, but we each have different needs and we won't all drive for a carrier that has 500 vans. If a person just drove to a...

the mess is share equally by the UAW and management. New hires at auto plants work for half the old workers, they have co pays an med and they do not get to be part of the job bank. The UAW has made changes, enough? Well maybe if they fired everyone and started over, then the wages would be in...

highway wrote: Reality is not whining, you are right, but reality is different between you and me and the next person. when a newbie comes to this page and ask if he can make it in this business, the "pat" answer is most often, "don't do it, you won't make it, everyone os going broke.."...

Good Post Steve!!

LOL, No disgruntled chef here, that business is still going, i just hired 2 others to do the work, as for the multiple businesses, yeap and a multiple personality disorder also!! LOL! Ok so a quick, not too detailed overview, Now, No i don't consider the destruction or replacement cost...

Hmmmmm, I read this last night. After i dropped in madison ms., a load that paid me well more then $.70 a mile including the FSC, I looked at all of my runs since I started with bolt in the last week of aug., I have NOT hd a run that i did for $.70 CPM including FSC in all that time. Did turn...

I personally believe that there is a certain segment here that whines about the doom and gloom just to keep people from entering the business and just maybe taking what they feel they are due. If i had listened to those people, i wouldn't be sittin in this "J" parking lot after dropping a...

jaminjim wrote: Wrong. This business (my expediting business, which is just one of 4) has no truck, no payments no purchase of a truck so, no cost involved for that at all. I'll net more on less gross then most..... Its all in how you structure your business(es) and screwing with...

I have owned ans still own several businesses. 1 that i recently closed and will liqudate shortly was a fitness center. Yhat business boomed for a while and is still predicted to be a great business. It is full of pitfalls, and i can complain just as people in this business for whatever reason...

That is not entirely true. The net is different for everyone, I'll promise you that my net is higher on less gross if you are making a van payment! I don't owe a dime to anyone on anything to do with this business, this business does not have to net a dime, it does but i'll net more on less...

Good post Leo! If i had listend to all of those that told me that the economy was bad and that all van drivers are starving including people onnthis bord, i wouldn't be doing this today and I'd not be making enough money to support a family on. Now this business does NOT need to support me...

OVM wrote: Naaaahhh not in the least! You all have been nothing but a help and offered nothing but hionest opinions, its all good! Besides, i have "pretty thick skin!" so no problem at all!

I don't profess to know it all, and i am sure most of you have forgot more then i know at this oint. And yea i know that screaming and burning up phone lines does nothing other then allow the screamer to vent. I am sure Longer wait times are coming, and I'll deal with them i the needed way when...

OVM, Thanks for the list, its printed and laminated and on the dash! :)

Bein a newbie, i never thought of askin for layiver pay, i will next time. Thanks! :D

SJMagic wrote: I hope the hell this isn't happening more then a time or 2 in a year!!! Since Sept i have not sat over 36 hours during the week days more then a handful of times. I'd ne burning up phone lines or the QC airwaves if i was sitting for 5-7 days!! Hell, Bolt will pay you...

Bein the new guy on the block(started sept 1st), i guess i have nothing to base what i have done on from the past. All i can say is i have not sat longer the 38 hours between any load more then a handful of times during the week, and i have averaged a load a day during the week (mon-fri) while...