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Exit 2? What truck stop you at? Where did you unload Bowling Green? 50 miles to a truck stop and back to a load'l be 50 miles by 7mpg, about $22. Then ya got the idle'in I spose. Could rent a room for $30 and vedge.

About 7-8%

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UPS does have their expedite arm. Like many of us, we ask other organizations to help us out. They ask me to help, and I ask them to help. Cooperation.

Maybe. Or maybe, you have been learned, and are a little wiser.:+ :+

BTW, I want to congratulate Broompilot on his home run to Sask. Happy you broke the bank that MONTH. I'm setting here wondering however, how thin you're soup will get before you step to the plate and hit another one.

Maybe I can help someone considering this business. Following is a real life fact about costs. We purchased a 330 Peterbuilt with a 60" double bunk sleeper (austere but adequate) for $40,000. We Have run that machine for 550,000 miles. Cost per mile $.072. Lets double that for Ins, Maint...

Broom: Certainly, there are times when a truck stop visit is necessary. However, if I don't need fuel, or a shower, it is not acceptable to me personnaly to dead head fifty miles to a truck stop. If I do need fuel, I more than likely still won't dead head that far to a truck stop. Fuel is...

Yes Rich, this job can be extremely personnaly rewarding (warm and fuzzy rewarding) as well as financially rewarding. Unfortuneately, the next one might not be as warm and fuzzy.

Absolutely, this business was in fact built on service (pulling peoples fat outa the fire). Have a fine fort o july folks.

This has been a great discussion so far. However, for typing about "cheap" freight, we need to understand that not everyone lives in Columbus, Ohio. Now, I submit that if you were in columbus, Ohio and have an agenda in Denver, Sioux Falls, Bozeman, wouldn't you rather go to your agenda for a...

I wouldn't Dead Head ten miles for twenty cent, let alone a hunder'd. There are more ways to view this industy than from one five degree angle, there are three hunder'd fifty five left. And if you folks are thinking you're getting taken advantage of, or, it don't go where you wanna go, then, by...

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ATEAM: Better yet, read the recruiters post over, and over again. Internalize the parts about the freight on the truck being "your freight" , and, the part about the customer being "your customer". Way too many O/O, if not the vast majority, have not got this figgured out yet. Internalize...

AMEN ATEAM

Yes, those "reality" checks are sometimes severe, aren't they?

There IS one. Now i'm going to have a brand new Honda Plant right in my backyard, building 200,000 cars a year.

What's for breakfast??

diver: give me a call 812 663-6834

Chet and all: Chet hit it on the head "work ethic" aino such thing some'mo it seems. I've had young bucks in the truck with me that couldn't stay awake 3-4 hours driving. So I drove to give em a break stumble over their coolers, wondering if'n they were ever going to wake up. Nope they...