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Dont you think you might be creating a safety hazard by running 57 mph in states where the speed limit is 65 mph and most traffic is running in the 65 to 70 mph range? There has been studies done that show a 10 mph variance is the cause of accidents. Would it not be safer for you and others...

I was following the From what we here there at it again thread and now I see it is gone. What happened? I didnt notice anthing bad enough to have it removed.

Here is the correct answer, 1995 and older chevy and gmc vans used unibody construction. When GM redesigned there full size vans for 1996 they went to a full frame with a body that bolted on.

Monocoque from wikipedia. Unibody or unitary construction is a related construction technique for automobiles in which the body is integrated into a single unit with the chassis rather than having a separate body on frame. The welded unit body is the predominant automobile construction...

I had a 76 full size gm van, a 78 full size gm van, a 89 full size gm van and now a 2000 dodge full size van and all are what I consider unibodies. I also had a 89 full size ford van that was a full frame van. What I consider unibody is having a stamped steel u channel welded to a floorpan and...

Good advise wellarmed, but I believe that they are required to go where panther tells them to. As long as panther, which is the customer in this case, remains satisfied with the cross dock service, the drivers feelings do not matter.

And when you are leased to a carrier it is the ONLY hand that feeds you. Bite it and you will be very sorry.

Business partnership is just a term used to inflate the O/Os ego. The fact that panther started this policy this quick and with little warning proves that they consider O/Os more to be employees than business partners. With that said I respect what panther is doing, they need to get these loads...

You might be waiting a long time because there are a lot of real small carriers out there that can move freight for a low price and make money doing it.

I have a 2000 dodge 1 ton extended ex passenger van and it works fine.

I will agree that expediting is time critical but you dont have to stay out 3 weeks at a time. I only stay out long enough to get the load delivered and to get back home. I also do this on a part time basis and have a second business I run also. After you have been around expediting a while Mike...

Your company sounds familiar blizzard, you didnt happen to buy Panther and rename it.

If they are just brokers then why would you move and waste money, just call another broker and see if they have anything. If they do not then call a third broker or maybe a forth till you find freight moving from where your at. It should not take more than half a day to contact a bunch of...

You only need a cdl for hauling hazmat or if the vehicle is 26,001 lbs. and up.

1211 units now and there last update on the safer web was on July 25 2008 which listed them with 916 power units. It would seem that there adding power units in a slowdown time.

Why? Maybe he can run 1000 miles safely. I have done many runs in the 700 to 900 mile range and some a little longer and done them safely. There are no mileage limits put on vans except by the carriers themselves.

Fedex will maintain there fleet OVM. When a O/O goes belly up Fedex will just replace them with another O/O and the fleet size remains the same. Fedex loses nothing and the O/Os are expendable.

What exclusive use means here is that Fedex has complete control over what goes in your truck. Panther will let you book your own loads for a 15% fee, but Fedex does not let you do this. They claim you can at Fedex but from what I have read on here there are so many restrictions to it that it is...

This is a case where everyone needs to contact there senators about this. The feds need to withhold federal road money given to this state until this law is changed.