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New drivers beware, you may be penalized just for being a "New Driver". Yep,thats right! Why not give your new boss a few hundred dollars of your wages per month to drive their truck. Never mind the revenue they're going to make on the freight you haul in their truck. Recently a driver told me...

Anybody out there had any experiance owning or driving A Sterling 9500 Reefer (or dry unit) built by Knoxville Freightliner? We are seriously looking to purchase a new 2006 from them. We've looked at them but were not able to drive that day. Unit is do-able for our needs and affordable...

Terry, Twelve years? How did you get them to last soooo long? The wife and I wore out our $300 Sealy posturepedic in five years (and we're not big people). Does this mean more expensive is not always the best quality? Or could it be the constant boncing up and down that wore ours out...

RE: CUSTOMS RE: Our Longest Run of ALL TIME I would assume that based on the latest commodity description you gave, that it must be a DDPS load. Can't imagine one of you always having to be with the truck until you deliver for security reasons. If it is DDPS how does one deal with the ferry...

Ok folks,please help educate me here. Been expediting for just over three years now, and for the most part loving it. We own a DR- unit and prefer running the temp-controlled freight. No ammo or explosives for us thankyou, but we do our share of military bases. Until recently our base visits...

10-4 on keeping the cheese smell out! The real question is what if Moot cuts the cheese when inside?!;) Wonder if the rebreather is strong enough to clear that out or would he have to hit the panic button to bail out?!:+ :7 :P

As for the places that "dont allow the driver(s) on their dock during loading/unloading",we simply reply "we own the truck and one of us will be present while loadin/unloading".If the insist not, we reply with "we've had shipper/receivers personnel steal items from our box in the past,we trust...

I vote for Portland, OR. Jubitz Travel Plaza is the place to stay! Park your C or D-unit in the bobtail section,puts you right at the main entrance to the main building. Theres great food in the Cascades restuarant,a good lounge with live bands on Fri and Sat nights and the motel has nice...

Getting some great securement recommendations thus far. Yes we used to do a block of totes towards the nose of the trailer and a block over the tandems. Keep in mind that sometimes the totes are to wide to place two side by side. Then your only options are to center them single file or do a...

This post may be more appropriate placed in the Newbies section but I feel we all need to read this one. Seasoned drivers have also made this mistake in the past. When a driver accepts and signs for a load at the shipper or even in a transfer of trailers (if you're an e-unit) you, the driver...

Everyone thus far has given you excellent advise. Take it to heart. As for the walk away lease you mentioned, that is an clue. The lease holder in many cases is hoping you do exactly that. Afterall, they get their truck paid for (by you) for 6 months or whatever, you on the other hand loose all...

If you ever land in Southern California for the weekend and like the beach, you might enjoy staying at San Clemente State Park. For more information regarding this location go to Layover Lounge on this Forum and read "Nuclear Vacation". We had a great time and plan to visit again in the future!:)

For those of you that either read or posted your excellent advice on the thread "owner lease purchase" I'm happy to say the truck which was the center of the topic has been bought by a deserving couple we know. They plan to drive it themselves. Our congrats go out to them and we wish then much...

>When Pat or Tim or whoever it was >called the other night I was driving in a blinding >thunderstorm with tornado warnings and couldn't talk. I even >told him that. He said he would call me the next morning and >I told him I wouldn't even consider them again because they >did treat us right...

>Already know all about Pat Hopkins. We actually almosy made >the mistake of driving for him. Dear Allen & Bernie (AKA bernieh48), When I first read your post asking for help finding a fleet owner to buy the truck of your choice and then do a lease/purchase, I was impressed with your...

Hey Whitewolf, Hear you're looking for a lizard. Get yourself a load to Florida. We have a town with a real lizard problem. Plenty to choose from,all ages and sizes. They've even been on the evening news. Take home as many as you can handle!:7 Sorry, I just couldn't resist having fun with this. :+

Thus far, there have been some really good post regarding this subject. Many comments made help in understanding the thinking within the expediter community. The one post is correct in the time spent socializing is usaully short,therefore explaining fast-forwarding into certain topics between...

What I hope to get out of this post is some insight as to why this is so commonplace amoungst expediters. We're checking in at the guardshack of a "high security" customer when another driver (wearing the same company logo) ask, "where is your load going?" Just because your shirt matches mine...

How many of you "D" units have a Maxon liftgate, you know the one with the deck extension on the back of the box. How many times have you dumped a customer's product trying to get your pallet jack over that supid lip between the box floor and the deck surface ( about 3/4"-1' difference).Those...

There is an particular Pharmaceutical customer that will not allow regular wood pallets to be pinwheeled. Their concern was lack of air flow under the product since it was a temp controlled load. After almost cancelling the load on us, they decided to reload the product on european style...