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Since we moved to Landstar Express America, our toll expenses plummeted because we do not go to that area as often. Massive (obscene) toll increases were imposed in the last year or so. But because tolls are not the issue they used to be for us, I have not looked closely at the present...

I agree, but how do drivers know what to charge? Just the little homework I did to calculate tolls for the chart posted above involved a fair amount of work.

That's partly correct. The other part is the load must be placarded 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 to qualify for the on-duty exception. If you have to babysit a load 24/7 but it is not so placarded, you are required to go off duty like every other driver and load. This creates an obvious and serious...

The short story is the three routes differ very little in total toll cost to make that one-way trip from Bordentown to JFK. For a two-axle straight truck, $49-$50 will be paid in tolls. More will be paid by a three-axle truck and much more by a five-axle truck. It leaves me wondering if the...

Here is a small beginning to answering the questions I asked in post #22 above (click the little image below). The numbers may be wrong. I did this in a hurry. But I post it anyway to illustrate a way of thinking about how you run in the Northeast, and more importantly, what you charge to do...

So, starting from the Bordentown, NJ, Petro truck stop, three routes to JFK have been suggested: Designated by the bridges used, they are (miles in parentheses): 1. Goethals/Verrazano Narrows (83) 2. GW/Whitestone (90) 3. GW/Throgs Neck (95) These routes all follow interstate highways, not...

Alternative: N I-95 across George Washington Bridge S I-295 across Throgs Neck Bridge W I-495 S I-678 to JFK It's five miles further than taking the Whitestone Bridge route but that bridge sucks. Throgs Neck is more plesant, we have come to believe (to the extent any bridge is pleasant in...

Sitting at the dock for thirty minutes at the beginning of the day after loading will not work. From the FMCSA web site: The final rule requires that if more than 8 consecutive hours on duty have passed since the last off-duty (or sleeper-berth) period of at least half an hour, a driver...

Re: 1st geo hall of fame memeber Glen is out of the hospital, medically cleared and driving again. They cleaned the blood clots out of his heart and lungs and he is feeling better than he has in a long time because his breathing is improved. What was first called heart failure was something...

Picked up and delivered in Florida.

Nope. There would be no such market because the device could be easily defeated by duct taping a hamster to the steering wheel.

That's kind of the point I was raising. In today's surveillance society, if you show a proper 30 minute break but it later surfaces and is proven by a cell phone log, Facebook post or video footage from wherever you were parked that you were talking to dispatch in that time about your load or...

Interested to hear more.

You folks are talking about making your EOBR look right to a scale cop, but how will a scale cop know that you actually complied with the rule? For that matter, what is it exactly that we are supposed to be doing or not doing in that 30 minutes?

Diane and I were talking today about the new 30 minute break rule that will go into effect on July 1; specifically about how our driving routine may change as a result of this rule. She asked a very interesting question: How are they going to enforce it? How will a DOT officer even determine...

Of all the CDL holders in the country driving over the road, what percentage of them are owner-operators and what percentage are company drivers? Of the company drivers, how many drive for carriers with fleets of 100 trucks or more? Of all the carriers doing OTR work, what percentage of them are...

Just because you have always believed it does not make it true. I have completed both courses and can say with some authority that your statement is incorrect. Neither a professor of philosophy nor a professor of economics would say that one discipline trumps the other. Both professors would...

Actually, it is fundamentally flawed. The logical fallacy that you deploy in making your case, and again in your post above, has a name. It is "tautological definition." You can read more about logical fallacies here. Pay special attention to "False Analogy," which you also rely on to make...

It played out OK for us but not for everyone. When we got to the TA at MM 142 in Oklahoma City, flooding was encountered. We were able to get in and out of the truck stop itself (fuel stop) after driving through standing water but not back onto I-40 at that on ramp. It was totally under water...

That's the way it played out. The storm in our path weakened and the warnings were allowed to time out. We are resuming our trip.