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    You caught the ball, now what?

    You should only be liable for tax at the point of Sale. Just cause I find an antique toy for $50.00 and discover its worth XYZ my tax is only due at the point of sale. You can even borrow against the value of the toy or ball, but only until you sell it is it taxable. I would lock that ball...
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    Your Happiest Sports Day

    Thinking back you know the Greatest Sports Moment this Country ever had 1980 Olympics. Remember that Hockey Team, and the final show down with Russia. They compared it to a High School football Team going up against the Steelers the odds were better for the Steelers than for this Hockey Team...
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    Insurance and Expenses

    Expenses are on rise, how about RATES? How much are you expected to lessen your Quality of Life or Life Style, just to support a Business? I thought the idea of operating a business was for the business to support You and Your Family, not for your family to sacrifice to support a Truck...
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    255,000 Chinese Made Tires Recalled

    Agree with Doggie, Americans just no longer care to work in Factories or is it Factory work no longer pays enough to make a decent wage? Americans generally will purchase the cheapest product on the shelf. Over my life I have always tried to buy the highest quality item. I am finding this is...
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    Routing

    US 460 from Christianburg, VA over to Princeton, WV avoiding Wytheville, VA. EVER run that route. Fair Bad Suicide?
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    Truck Insurance went up 28%

    OOIDA has the fair market value for most Trucks. You need to be a mamber to access this info. Just cause YOU may feel your truck is worth 100K a insurance co. is only going to pay you fair market value. The NADA of truck quotes is the book they use this changes at least two to four times a...
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    Anyone use a Garmin 340 GPS?

    Everything with modern Tech. is gona have some draw back. These little Marvels ARE GREAT. Wana find a Mechanic, just enter it, bingo it pops up with address and phone #. Same for a Hotel/Motel Restaurants, all kinds classified for you, Italian, American Dinners etc... Phone #s everything...
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    Fuel Mileage Seems Low

    On my KW with 3.7 rears 6 spd auto sleek sleeper top, 9-just under 10 was average. RPMS at 65 just under 1,600 60 seemed to be 1450 to 1,500 depending on up incline or flat.
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    Here Come The Disclaimers!!!

    When you wrote KY wrestling, I thought the same thing. Kentucky and kept reading on. TO FUNNY, by the way I am awake now! 6:30 AM
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    Logging question

    That was the Post I just read. After explaining more than once to those who have been afraid to Log and seeing the benfits of a Straight Truck or larger and the profit margins. I have never talked to one of those people who changed up and began logging who ever said they wished they stayed in...
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    fedex o/o want to be paid as employees

    Kinda what someone else posted about? Good for Contractors, BAD for FEDX, very BAD for Business. Now who ya think would win this one? Employee hopefulls or Big Business? Home to Redskins, in Washington, next to Lobbiest, next to Politicians.
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    What's your most common load.??

    Everything from four cases of Soda (Pop in the Midwest) to T-Shirts for Texas A & M (most beautiful girls in the WORLD attend school there by the way) I know I could not keep the truck in the lanes from all those LEGS. To a get this Cam Shaft to a Diesel Locomotive. Now that was an intresting...
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    Is It hot out there??

    Not if you bring your own TREE, and park under it for SHADE. Just remember to move every two hours as the sun goes from E to W. And at night you just stay under it to protect oneself from Moon Rays.\ Got Milk no I meant to say Got A TREE?
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    Parking

    COL. CAUSE I CAN. REASON NO. TWO, CAUSE I HAVE A HARD TIME HAULING THE FREIGHT AND THE TREE TO, especially LAREDO, PHOENIX, and other hot spots where trees just do not GROW, tall enough to shade the truck. Plus you know the sun does continue to move all day long and moving around and around...
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    Getting Started

    Did you do research by talking to Van Drivers on what they are earning? This is not by any means meant to be a smart arse question. Of any Van drivers who have posted on here or that I have meet out there are we not talking about Gross Take Home in the High Teens or Low Twenties. I am just...
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    Info on C & M Transprot

    EXCELLENT fit for me. If comming back to Expediting I would sign on with them over a Tri State, FECC, Panther HANDS DOWN. Some times slow, but all in all THE BEST DISPATCHERS in any TRUCKING COMPANY in any type of Freight Hauling. Well all except for one who looks out for his own self...
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    Here Come The Disclaimers!!!

    THIS MEANS ALL CONSUMERS bring your own Vasaline to the pump. Boy that sounds to good, so maybee KY instead?
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    Inverters

    1500 a Microwave takes up almost 800 a Vacuum takes about 750 toaster 400 coffee pot 600-750. I have the Cobra, it has neat little lights for neat little people such as myself who could never figure out by reading the box the stuff came in so the lights are for us lazy or dumb people who like...
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    Kevin Rutherford

    OPS oil filter system and his other info. Anyone using this and his other systems with good results?
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    Legal rights

    An Idependant Contractor wants RIGHTS! Your an Independant Contractor you can pick up and go as you please and that also means when your source of Revenue decides your a DEAD BEAT. Otherwise I doubt they would let you go. Sorry to be so Blunt, but business is business, and one in business...
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