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Being a small business owner myself, I prefer to take my hard earned money to other small business owners and spend it rather than giving it to the large corporate owned businesses. We (small businesses) are what built this country, and we need to support each other. But not take advantage of...

So what you are saying is the day I show up at one of these locations and they deem my breaker bar as a potentially lethal weapon, I could be forced to surrender that at the gate? Afterall, I could put a real hurt'n on somebody with that if needed! So I wonder how they would expect me to...

We feel very fortunate and blessed that most all of our customers are great. I believe many of the others would go that extra mile if in the same situation. We really feel most care about their aviation drivers. I've not been made to feel this way from past customers in other types of freight...

In another thread I started, I stated that we would be working during the Forth of July holiday. Altough we wished to service a customer in need and we were the only truck in there area with space availible on our deck, the forth is our wedding anniversary. We were in hopes of celebrating it not...

We will be working over the holiday. Not by choice. But out of desire to serve our Air Force. Today we picked up two thrust reversers for one of their C-17 Globemasters. They are going back to be redone and then placed back in service on the waiting aircraft The reverser acts as a braking...

We will be working over the holiday. Not by choice. But out of desire to serve our Air Force. Today we picked up two thrust reversers for one of their C-17 Globemasters. They are going back to be redone and then placed back in service on the waiting aircraft. The reverser acts as a braking...

Well said Phil. Not only is this driver a credit to us all, he/she is probably responsible for your cabs and sleepers being turned upside down the next time you show up at this site. I'm sure they will be thinking if one (FECC) showed up with a gun, surely the rest may try to do the same and not...

Of the three carriers I've been associated with during my trucking carreer, only one did not pay 100% of the FSC to the truck. That was the carrier prior to the one we are currently leased to. IMO to only piece of the pie that the carrier should be withholding is a small percentage of the...

That is true. But when have we (commercial vehicles) seen consistent enforcement from state to state or even county to county when it comes to enforcing federal rules concerning the operation and safety regarding commercial vehicles?

Who would want to risk using a strap that long before replacing it? Certainly not us! Straps are cheap $15-30 each. 20- 2" and 20- 4" straps replace once a year (or as need), much less expensive than replacing freight or worse. We believe one must spend monry to make money, including...

As an open deck hauler myself, I find nothing in the U.S. cargo securement rules (49 CFR S392.9 & Part 393) that specifically forbids this practice of securing straps to a deck. The Canadian rule (NSC Standard 10) does state as follows: "In Canada, securement devices MUST be routed inboard of...

And how many of today's teenagers would have done it as unselfishly as she? How many after being injured in a car accident during the run would have given up and gone home. When her own father suggested that she end the run in DC, she said NO, I'm going all the way. If you go to...

Yesterday afternoon Jasmine J. Jordan (Jazzy), a seventeen year old girl from Dalton, MN completed her cross-country run from Los Angeles to NYC at Times Square www.runwithjazzy.com. This 3100 + mile run began back in Sept, 2009. Why? In memory of Sheila Kay Grothe, and to draw attention to the...

And that is where we come in, hauling replacement parts to the planes to keep them flying. The photos below are of the run we are currently on. The load consist of a full set of landing gear, a thrust reverser and fan cowling for a jet engine, and various other parts. All are from a DC-8 jet...

Alli will be looking forward to meeting Kenzy! :)

Naw. The last jet engine we hauled wasn't completely purged of aviation fuel and hydralic oil, so it pee'd on our deck. These fluids are highly caustic. The wife and I have already had some bad burns to our hands and arms. Hazards of the world of aviation. I put the shipping pad down on deck to...

This is our new Mini Boston Terrier pup. She weighs five pounds now. She will mature at approximately ten pounds and stand 10-11" tall at the shoulder when fully grown (great size for pulling tarp ropes under the jet engines for ole fatty). We are currently outside of SWA in the Dallas area...

Will post some this weekend. Got to wear her out enough to get her to stand still long enough to snap a few pics.

Well we've finally done it. We've put a pet back on our truck after being told by FECC that we could not have our pet onboard. Being the pet lovers that we are, we really missed not being allowed to have our poodle with us. For my wife's birthday we got her (us) a Mini Boston Terrier pup that...

It has been our experience that commercial logos and the size of the logo on the vehicle sometimes come into play. We have been admitted into RV resorts with our tractor that denied us access with our DR-unit when leased to FECC. The reason given was that the management felt their other clients...