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Tis a mess this smokee no smokee thing. A couple amusing storys for ya... A week or so ago at a clothing optional beach here in Maui (Hawaii has the most stringent smoking laws I have encountered), a few of us buks were setting in on a game of texas holdem with cigars, beer, an other smokes in...

Leo, ya start a midnite, drive 11, sleep 10, it's 2100hrs, ya drive til midnite(3 more hours). Where I went to school 11+3 wuz always 14. 24hrs, midnite to midnite. Or, if'n ya want to get techie bout pti 13.5 hrs driving. Regardless, many of you won't have to worry bout breaking the...

I'd be happy to. There is a real good chance (if'n those results are a burden to you) that WHEN under load he didn't pull off at "too many" rest spots and kept on keep'in on with the windshield time. May have had a couple 650 or 700 mile days during that period (65mph X 11= 715, jes by gitt'in...

Maybe hawk. Maybe. All I know is, I sure wuz thankfull in the past to be out there in the mix with people who "know" where the freight will pop up. Loved it!!

Seems many of you are really quick to pee on the boys honeymoon for some reason? Ya gotta understand, jes because an area isn't "known" by you to generate freight, don't mean there isn't any freight there. I'd suggest to the experts here, that you may wanna start taking "everything that comes...

In the past we rented Condos for us and our drivers and contractors at various locations during the spring break period to discuss plans for the busy period ahead, lick our wounds from the first quarter(if needed) and in general rest and recreate. Did the same thing about a year ago...

gj, i'd say you found a place some time ago, similar to the one you are describing. Had you approached it different (with not so many didn't wannas) you'd been in tall cotton then. You may choose to type for others benefit precisely how your attitude bout all this foolishness called...

Phil, when leased to a Carrier like yours, and all you can haul is 4 skids or so, and have capacity for 10k or so, all you are going to see is in fact the small dim loads. No doubt in my mind fedup gets many moves that are dense in nature that will go on a E that take up 8-10 foot and weigh 20k...

It's really good to read about a "thinking" O/O whom chooses to field equipment that will maximize their success there JD. Steada setting in the samo cookie cutter truck. I find that "ODD" is mostly in the eye of the viewer.

pj, the landstar menue requires wayy more effort than most are willing to endure. i'm sure they are busy trying to help "themselves",steada typing on here. Tis a good ting. To keep em from typ'in BS. Not to, but, because of.

Yes I know, 300K might be a stretch to gross. But, it's the same old number game, 40% of 60% is one thing, and 40% of a hunnert percent is quite anuther thing. I'd much rather have 40% of a hunnert percent. There is some newsy stuff on that other site. Ain't there?

Dunno bout fedup, but, we had a driver that wuz consistently well over 50k for a half dozen years, driving a heavy D, single, at 40%. But, we NEVER found anything that he "didn't wanna" do. We sold out on 1 jul 08, an his 1099 wuz 34k for the first half. Maybe there is a difference. An maybe...

Ahh yes. Jes trying to help the folks that don't know any better, git "a better life". After all ya can't spend all yer time on the beach (the beer evaporates too quick there) then I don't git my fair share. Jes trying to encourage folks to go with money making equipment and methods when they...

I wuz not in any way minimizing the importance of on time pay. Wuz always my rule. However, itis a bit hard to be jealous of anyone as I type to you from Lahaina, Maui and being a winter Hawaiian. Like I always say if yer happy i'm tickled with yer "toy truck".

Simple. If the driver chooses to run toll roads, steada other routes then....... why not?? Exception would be, if you can't avoid a toll road. Do some routing for yoursef an save some money.

Those seem to be good tings to wish for considering the way you operate. Jes my observations over the years have shown me that of the countless numbers that have come and gone, the ones that are gone consistently typed about "comfort and miles" rather than efficiency and revenue. The ones that...

I know, I know. And if yer happy, i'm tickled. But, I question the "if owners want us to stay out" thing. What is really wrong with "if WE want to stay out, we'd like the type of equipment to drive that would make it worthwhile". Being able to carry 5 ton is minimal. When you can do 15...

Well now, surround sound tv, mp3, sterio, full size bed, zink,w/water tank, LARGE fridge, microwave, lots of living space?? Sounds like a real money maker to me!! That is precisely the way I loved to see equipment fielded. Too many "things" aboard to be able to have any weight capacity...

Turned down a load to Corpus eh? Be a lot better quality waiting there than Dallas. Sides, lots comes out of the Army Depot there. Not to mention, you'd be in striking distance for the Valley, San Antonio and Houston. Did you really look at it? Or, did ya regress yer grey process cause of a...

Welcome CharlieD to THE reality of trying to work with "people". If ya ever git em figgured out, type to us. We were a "Ma & Pa, an ALWAYS got out of Florida with good paying freight. Granted, it wuz sometimes after a little "beach time", but none the less, did well running Florida...