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Jackback57, I'm sure if you were to call FECC recruiting and explained why you chose not to go with this owner they would understand. Furthuremore if you met FECC's driver requirements to be considered in the first place, I'm sure they would give you more names of fleet owners to contact. If...

Well, we got our truck out of the paint shop Monday afternoon. Although we lost an additional week's revenue waiting on it it was worth the wait. It looks great! We got a suprise when we picked it up.The original work order was for them to strip the lettering off the sides of the box,prime and...

You may be right! He is a large well established business here in Fl and has long standing paint and repair contracts with the City,County, State,and also with some of the large food service corporations in our area.He is also the Kidron repair and service location for our area. With a bio like...

Wanting to know if anyone else has run into this problem: Our signs were put on our truck when it was new in 2001. First they began cracking around the box rivets about two years ago. Then more recently they began cracking all over (like antiquing), first the darker letters followed by the...

Dave, Thanks for your post here regarding Pat and Tim Hopkins.After a very BAD experiance as percentage drivers with our first fleet owner, you can bet we felt very lucky to find Pat. You may remember the thread "Honest/Dishonest Fleet Owners" I posted a while back. We have always appreciated...

If you are asking "would 85/15 split be about average for a lease" my answer would be this: When we were looking to do our Lease/Purchase 80/20 split was the average, 85/15 was all but unheard of.But as the Lessee you need to crunch the numbers of what you feel you can afford in a lease payment...

If I wrote everything here that should be in a "SAFE" lease/purchase contract it would fill an unbelievable amount of space. Our contract was at least 10-pages long. So, heres a condensed version: To set this up, our truck was bought specifically for our lease.We actually found the truck...

Hey Leo, After watching the "Product Demo" you recommeded I'm left with this conclusion: In the time it took to set that bad boy up I'm afraid it would be to late!:'( The Porta-Potti in our sleeper is much faster. The wife just wishes I'd install one of those bathroom exhaust fans,you know what...

Patrick Hopkins. A very honest fleet owner along with his brother Tim!

When the subject of Lease/Purchasing a truck from a fleet owner comes up on this forum its usually full of horror stories about how the deals went bad.How often have you seen a positve post about this subject.Furthermore,why would anyone want to give someone else part of their hard earned money...

What ever happened with that "Really Cool Run" to Masset,BC? Never heard any updates as to how the ferry ride went our what the island was like. I'm sure many like myself are curious to hear how things went. Were there any problems along the way or did things go smoothly? It would be nice to...

Hotfr8, Great reponse and very imformative along with the other good replies to this thread. There have been two post in particular that raise a question. What is considered a reasonable request on the "Company's" part when it comes to how far a driver must travel (at his/her expense)to a...

I was recently asked this question: Does a company that one is leased to have the right to dictate which clinic a driver must go to when selected for a random? The example that was used; the driver is sitting at Jubitz in Portland,OR. Jubitz has a clinic certified by the governing agencies...

Laura, Depending on what your truck already has on it and what you want for options dictates the cost. If you are starting from scratch I would install (or have an electrian install) a breaker,wiring harness and 120v outlets in the cab/sleeper along with a weather proof [male] power connect on...

Greg, Sorry to hear your expidite camping experiances were not the best. Fortunutely we've not had that misfortune yet. We have found the reception to be good. Many fellow campers around us are rather curious when they see an expedite truck and come over and ask lots of questions. We tell a...

Camping expediters, now your talking Phil! Our 2001 Century Class has shore power and we love it. We can run our Proheat A/C and heating system with it and supply 120v power to the sleeper outlets. It also runs our power inverter.It has a built in battery charger that monitors the battery...

RichM is correct on Oceanside. The park is San Clemente State Park. They are expediter friendly. Read my post "Nuclear Vaction" posted a while back in this section. You can camp there in your truck. Power, water and sewer hookups are availible at the campsite. They have showers, restrooms and a...

Reponses thus far to your question are correct. Please let me add this. We also run a DR (reefer) unit. Most reefer boxes we see out here are 22' inside demins. A 24' reefer box in a used expedite truck may be a bit hard to find, but you can order them if you are building up a truck. Keep in...

Glad this subject was brought up because we just had a situation regarding requesting detention pay. We get a low paying load offer thats not confirmed. One minute after the offer is sent the dispatcher sends a message "delivery just confirmed for straight-thru delivery today". Since the pick...

Let me tell you, the ##### smell in the summer gets so bad. I try to find another expediter with a down exhaust on there truck. I park next to them so our ac intake will suck up their exhaust fumes and mask the ##### odor. Seriously, we give up and treat ourselves to a nice motel for the weekend.;)