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Heading for the T/A in Lebanon, IN as soon as I get unloaded here in Indy.

Glad you got to be out there for one. We moved to Titusville in 1960. My Dad worked as a boiler mechanic at the space center until 1985. I used to park cars in our front yard for $1 so people could walk the 300 feet down to the Indian River and watch the Saturn and Apollo launches. It's a...

About time for some good news.

I have a friend that has a 1 bedroom condo in Cocoa Beach, FL. He has a property management company that rents it out Feb-Nov and lives in it Dec and Jan to get his homestead exemption. He doesn't make any money but doesn't cost him anything either.

Petro, West Memphis, Arkansas 9 D trucks checked in, but we have a <75 so no sense in moving.

Florida makes it very easy to incorporate. Just go to www.sunbiz.org - Home. Everything you need to do is on there. My last business was a Chapter S corp. Since it is just myself and wife in this business we operate as sole proprietors. No real tax advantages to make it worthwhile to...

I trust my local shop, North Florida Truck Parts, here in Lake City so much that I had an air bag changed out last week without asking for an estimate. They charged me $227. My truck has a non standard air bag. After reading your post I called the Freightliner dealer across the street and got a...

I once ate in a small restaurant that had no prices on the menu. The waitress said "pay what you think it was worth, we trust you". I later read a story about the same restaurant that said 85% of the people over paid by about 50%. Sometimes trust is a good thing.

I think there will still be a season. There are to many billions of dollars at stake for them not to be able to work it out.

You can get a 10,000 BTU portable AC that will probably fit in one of you cabinets for about $400. All you have to do is vent the hot air outside through a window or other hole to the outside. Size is roughly 28" tall, 13" wide and 22" deep.

Thanks for the answers and good points Phil. I asked this question because I owned a construction business for 23 years. (Windows and hurricane shutters) I normally worked 40-45 hours per week on the job site and then spent evenings giving free estimates. Late nights were spent ordering...

We run surface team. Our rate per mile is up a little over last year. We still get a lot of low paying load offers. Mostly "B" loads. Our average run is 700 miles. We have been busy so far this year.:)

North Central Florida, near I 10 and I 75. Property is cheap, crime is low, taxes are low and it's like moving back 30 years in time and attitude. Seasons do change here. Winter temps drop into the teens. Florida has no state income tax. Sales tax in this area is 6.5%. State sales tax is 6%...

How much of your time is spent on operating under your own authority? I'm not talking about the driving part, I'm talking about the time you spend finding a load, getting set up with the customer, sending out bills, collecting past due monies, etc. All the things you would not have to do if you...

We sit a maximum of 2 days not including weekends. We normally will not stay in a known dead area longer than it takes to get a shower and meal. After 24 hours if we find ourselves in a very slow area we will ask planning to move us to an active area. Sometimes, when accepting a load, we will...

Daylight Savings Time starts at 0200 on Sunday, March 13th. Time to set those clocks ahead again and lose an hour of sleep.

I didn't get the FedEx one, but I do get one from Panther about once every two weeks. I don't get mad or upset about spam or unwanted e mails. I just delete them and go on with my day. Besides, if it weren't for spam and e bills I wouldn't get any mail at all.

For us dispatch works like this: We get a load opportunity over the phone or C Link. We evaluate it to see if it is good for our business needs. (Pay, delivery location, etc.) We accept it if it is good for us, wait to see if we got the run, and if we did get the run, we get the run info and do...

This has been our experience: We have never had a dispatcher demand we do a run we didn't want. We have had them try to convince us with more money. There is no place that we will not go if the pay is high enough. (High enough to justify deadheading to an active express center.) As soon...

Jan and Feb both exceeded our goals.