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Tell me about it. Left Bham last night after filling up for $1.86. Headed home to PA where $2.39 is a nice price [emoji58]

IDK if you'd get away with it, Broke. Ottawa is pretty close to the border; these guys are banking on information traveling much more slowly from Kiev/Moscow/wherever [emoji60]

Most countries, the USA included, allow foreigners to drive on their back-home licenses for 6-12 months. If the license isn't in English, those folks doing so in the US must carry a translation document, such as the International Driver's Permit. That's just another way our friends in the cubes...

Nope. Did the run. Now we have to be back in PA at 1000 Friday morning. Looks like we might hafta DH[emoji35]

In December 2015, I went onto the Obamacare marketplace to choose a plan for 2016. It put us on Medicaid, and here we are. I don't like to talk about it, but I'm not ashamed. We paid into the system for 30+ years, and if things improve and we go off it again, we'll find a way to deal with it...

Taken 27 June. Yup, welcome to upstate New York [emoji57]

Grandchild time is pay enough [emoji8]

NY to Bama. Details tomorrow [emoji16]

Back to Buffalo. Avoiding the Thruway, using NY 5. In Irving, you're on Seneca Tribal land. Gas is approximately $1.87-$1.90/gallon, due to the lack of NYS taxes. Pretty amazing, imho [emoji41]

One extra hand is okay; that's real life in operation. Two or three extra hands, some of whom aren't doing anything except clicking mice and getting paid for it, is where I see the problem.

So in this case, GM calls AA, and AA either delivers the load or bids it out, correct? If they bid it out and XYZ wins, then XYZ delivers (or is supposed to, anyway)? That's completely fair. Using our own industry, it is also fair for Load One to sell a load to someone like Murray, because CRE...

IMHO there should be only one level between shipper and transporting carrier, and that entity should be a carrier as well. Obviously, a given carrier has to service its customers, whether or not it has a unit in the area. They need to be able to sell the load so that it gets done. I object...

Explain the difference between this, and double brokering. I don't think this is fair.

In an as-perfect-as-possible world, a company would only have to sell a load once (ie, shipper to, say FedEx to KLM to me). Unless I'm wrong, some loads go through one or two additional brokers between the Fed and KLM*. That would be a major place for dollars to leak out of the pipeline. *in...

I'd like to know how many times some loads get sold before they end up on someone's truck. Everyone sells loads, of course, but the number of fingers in the pie makes a difference.

Got some sleep, then Buffalo to Charleroi, PA. Now at the J near New Stanton. Beeyootiful morning[emoji4]

I know him from Express Family. No complaints here. He's a salesman, to be sure, but he has never done me wrong.

Roxboro, NC to GM, Tonawanda NY. Now at J in Pembroke. Night night [emoji42]

My "sweet run back to PA" went to Lafayette, IN. Had to DH the rest of the way. Been visiting my kids [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16], seeing docs and spending $$$ on the van. Now available in Denver, PA; may be a few days of ramen noodles, but the blower motor works again, so the A/C's back on line...

From Americans to Americans Best damn thing I've read all day....