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piper...your carrier do income averaging??? As in making everyone equal in pay?? DX does , you make too much too soon and they sit you out till others catch up....

am flying solo...JuJu's at home....:D

DD...why do you need a GPS...i thought you knew everything...at least thats what I heard!!! :p

And here I thought crushing beer cans on your head was a competitive sport???

I run thru that tornado in Little Rock early Friday Morning 3am and delivered as fast as I could cuz I knew they were open all night..thought I might sleep and get a Friday afternooner..but lo and behold the Load Gods weren't on my side!!!

The pains of being a Canadian truck...I know it all too well!!!

When it's busy for us as a team in a Sprinter if we need sleep we have to go out of service...we don't get the luxury of a 34 hour restart...they will literally pre-book us and run our wheels off...

That was my exact thinking....BUT I would have had to turn down a 675 mile one to do that...and that doesn't seem wise neither!! This biz could drive me crazy if I wasn't already there!:D

Exactly....Nothing will net ya nothing and something will get ya something...and you'll end up somewhere in the end....:D

I can't speak for you C's D's and E's but for us Sprinters at E-1 if it's rated at Sprinter rate it's the same rate as non automotive... CV rate kinds sux though...

Lets see.. we are coming off the end of a quarter , it's the first of the month, FSC is high, and all them GM plants 28 now shutdown...maybe by next Thursday!!!! *LOL*

Smartbutt!!!!..... Nearly every customer is "preferred" if not they are a "major" customer!!!

Careful there Greg WE are also a part of the general public...When and if fuel stablizes and frieght rates all this talk will disappear and all will go back to the way it was....always does. Nothing ever gets done....Someone will throw us a bone and we'll chew on it for awhile till it's gone...

I do know for a fact the air is dirty east of the Mississippi....spend a week at my place and then come back east..your eyes will itch for days till they readjust to the dirt.

Unbelievably....some in the know at E-1 drive south from San Antonio!!! The border is good for us.

If I do clear early on a Friday in a busy freight zone, best I can do is take some elses rejections that day...cuzz 1,2 & 3 are waiting for the BIG one!!!

I am always looking for something that takes me home...I use Uship sometimes..I know, i know it's cheap but even if I get my fuel covered it's a good thing....I live about 1,000m west of Chicago.. A trip to Iowa or Wisc. never comes when ya want one....whats your hotshot url???

I seem to be on a roll of Thursday!! *LOL* I try to pick up as early as I can and pick up the pace and get it off as soon as I can...but lo and behold theres a swamp of other trucks around and it would take 2 or 300 mile drive to get out... I guess the solution would be to turn down anything...

How many out there get loads on Thursday and deliver Friday morning or worse yet noonish and get to rot over the weekend?? You end up being 4-6 in order and theres no real time to move and get any rest even if you do luck out....I hate Thursdays!!

There ya go..the crux of the problem if the first trucker wants to negotiate with the shipper he's told to hit the bricks cuzz the shipper knows there'll be one that won't...The longer that frieght sits on that dock the more liable that shipper will have to come up in price...he'll be under...