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If you need a reply to your first question before Frank gets a chance , yes you need a seperate business checking account . Deposit every penny of your receiveables there and keep a very accurate record of every penny that goes out . You'd be very wise to hire an accountant familiar with...

The best answer would be to just let teams work out their own schedule and eliminate this regulated nonsense . How many accidents can they prove are fatigue related ? The driver that had the wreck that got PATT organized had a legal log book . Look at all those thousands of FEMA drivers running...

RE: Court rules FedEX Ground contractors are emplo True , Expediters have the right to pick and choose their loads , time off , etc. as do many other o/o's throughout the industry . FedEx bought Roadway Package Express and made it FedEx Ground . They thought they had a good deal and it was very...

The 8 hour same schedule doesn't represent all jobs . Many companies running around the clock have 12 hour shifts . Work 4 day shifts , 3 days off , then come back and work 4 night shifts , 3 days off then back to days . I'm not being sarcastic or critical but if you have a " normal " day off...

FedEx Ground workers in CA had filed suit to be classified as employees rather than independant contrtactors due to the control placed on them . CA courts ruled in their favor and gave FedEX 180 to change the conditions to keep from classifying them as employees . This has been a controversy...

For a long time I had one that said " I still miss my ex- but my aim is improving ! " Now I have one that says " Driver carries no cash -He's married ! "

Just be glad you didn't get stopped in IL . They won't let you leave until you're legal on each axle . I've seen cranes shifting loads of heavy equipment tires and scrap metal . I've seen hopper bottom drivers hand shoveling part of the load from one hopper to the other and I once heard a CB...

O.K. guys , I guess I'm going against popular opinion here but I can't see the problem and some drivers I've talked to agree with me . They feel anybody that can't drive 8 hours straight should find some other type of work . But what would it be ? Every employer expects you to work 8 hour shifts...

And if stopped in KY , DO NOT refer to Vehicle Enforcement officers as DOT - whole different organization.

Another company pulling containers is Triple Crown but they work out of railyards rather than ports .

It has been mentioned here that cracking the window in truckstops and rest areas poses a danger of carbon monoxide from nearby idling vehicles . A carbon monoxide detector should be used .

OOIDA won't get anywhere if they keep attacking carriers and the ATA . Everyone in the industry has to work together . In the latest edition of "The Trucker " newspaper there is a front page article about OOIDA writing letters to ATA members critcizing the ATA and the ATA rebuttal . Turn the...

All the Panther II ads I've seen in magazines say they are hiring drivers for fleet owners . Just last week an ad appeared in the classifieds of our Sunday paper - drivers needed for fleet owner trucks at Panther II

I didn't know All Types went international .

RE: White Glove, Backstabbers, GOD's, Snitches, Ni >I'm not venting, we went thru 2 days of that. I just want >them pukes at white glove to read it and realize what they >do to people, espeacially nice people. In any event, we will >have our day come judgement day, and that "casting into the...

Seems kind of funny the day after oil company profits were announced diesel dropped about $.30 a gallon . I've heard all incumbent senators will be in trouble election day . I heard a caller on a radio talk show saying he was a republican that just couldn't vote democrat so he wasn't going to...

They are also required by law to pay interest on escrow .

I reard on Tuckers Radio Network that his license was suspended because he wrote a bad check for the speeding ticket . The bus driver had been on duty 13 hours but was a half hour from completing the trip .

The insurance has to be carried by the carrier with authority . The leased operator will need bobtail and property insurance for their truck but the carrier has to provide the insurance required by FWHA

Texas has restricted trucks on some sections of I-35 with signs reading "No Trucks Left Lane " . However , it is permissible to use the left lane to pass . Some truckers have been wrongly ticketed while in the left lane while passing . Texas DOT suggests printing the regulation and carrying it...