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What exactly does this mean for the driver of a straight truck? Help me decipher it. So I can drive to New Orleans and back, in the same day, without worrying about HOS? It’d be a 17 hour trip. It is emergency supplies. Does the same go for ELDs? Will it fry the system? Here’s the link below...

Last year when I turned 55 and I knew that i could draw a retirement check from Fedex Express, my brain got rewired. I began researching expediting. I’ve spent the past year researching, planning & preparing for October 1, 2019. So after 26+ years of punching a clock, as a courier, let me...

What is the average weight of the pallets you haul?

https://www.businessinsider.com/trucking-startup-convoy-launches-tool-to-limit-empty-miles-2019-6

Explain to me why it’s necessary to carry 1,000,000/300,000 when the federal regulations only require 300,000/100,000 for a vehicle under 10,000lbs. I understand for commercial vehicles over 26,000lbs. What if you have your own Operating Authority, will not be traveling past a 500 mile radius...

Anyone have any experience or thoughts... https://www.uberfreight.com

USDOT - check, MC - check. UCR - check. I need suggestion(s) for BOC-3. Thanks in advance!

Any thoughts on purchase vs TRAC lease on a commercial cargo van?

Is there a ‘Obtaining your own MC/USDOT #’s & Operating Authority’ book for dummies?

Hello Road Warriors, Just started the beginning phase of browsing & researching the Independent Courier world. Brief bio about me, I’m a 26 year FedEx Express courier with 22 years of safe-driving everything from Straight Truck, Sprinter & Cargo vans. I’m not too far from 56 years old. I’m...