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  1. termite289

    csa2010 question, and discussion if you wish

    ok, the csa 2010 is in full swing. and we are all going to be targeted as evil dooers, just because we drive a truck for a living. does anyone know the link to the site where one can see how many points they have retroactively applied against our license?????? cause yall know i just thrive on...
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    truck stop bums

    yes, they are almost everywhere. and if you've not met one yet you will. sad stories from my truck broke down, to my owner just dropped me off here and told me to get home the best i could. and of course my all time favorite, i drove down here to meet some guy i met on the internet, and he said...
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    im just angry all the time.

    lately i'm just angry. no freight, no miles, have to give my loads to teams. can't get home unless i deadhead a few hundred miles. always mad when i get home. no one to talk too about it. wife gets tired of me venting on/too her. the only bright side is truck will be paid off in a few months...
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    can we get a little more clarity on the boards

    like distinguishing between team loads, and solo driver loads. im apparently stuck on a team load only board, cause 3 teams have come and gone under me, and im still sitting here o na 6 load per day board. they did ask me to go to a shipper, and pick up a team load this morning, but told me to...
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    refference not working for me

    having problems with the reference portion of the company, driver web. fuel price lists and other links are simply not working for me. not sure if it is down, or just my puter. suggestions?
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    trucks with dogs

    um, i hate to bring this up, cause i do like dogs, but we seem to have a problem. our dog owning drivers, company not specific on this, are walking their dogs, a bit to close to the restaurant, travel stores, shops, and showers. during the hot summer months, walking through a southern...
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    it needs to be said, but i dont want to sound *****y

    it seems almost every load into the princeton toyota plant, after im finished, im out of my 14 hours. i don't know where the problem is on this issue. im just a driver. but it would be nice if they would set up a parkinglot on site with a bathroom, and vending machiens so we could take a brake...
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    uaw and ford

    as the new owners of gm, dosen't the uaw have a conflict of interest when negotiating the profits of ford for the union contracts?? like trade secrets and stuff of that sort. i think perhaps it is time ford told the uaw to hit the bricks. as they are now competitors. any thoughts
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    csa2010.com

    it seems that we have more stringent rules that are going to be implemented coming to a trucking company near you. i was looking over the site for the first time, and noticed a few five dollar words, that clued me in that whoever came up with this crap is NOT in any way afiliated with a truck...
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    tryed to backhaul friday

    was told only into primary service area. wanted load to misouri, was 4 miles from shipper. told no, also told that i could not backhaul to atlanta. i live in atlanta area. am i alone in being told this? anyone else having issues. im stuck at bordentown Nj petro for the weekend, or till i get a...
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    :)

    regular and a waitress were discussing working hard or hardly working, regular said he was trying to figure out a way not to work so hard. waitress said "I have been trying to catch that anorexia, but it ain't taking on me." I almost fell off the seat at the bar.
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    comcheck on a trailer repair, OMG!!!

    ok, today i had a trailer that needed some repair ( not surprising lately). so i call the shop guy, and he finds me a grate dane shop with in 15 miles. cool. i go there, and it takes 1 hour and 45 min to cut out three boards from the floor, remove the rust, cut new boards to fit, drill now screw...
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    your wildest invention.

    i know that i have ideas pop into my head all the time while riding around. things that could make life simpler, or something that could never work, but sounds neat as heck. after all we have lots of time to think, here alone, in this wilderness of concrete and steel, filled with strangers, and...
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    swap last 2 gears in transmission?

    yes you heard me right, i want to take the transmission out, take it apart, put 5th gear where 4th gear is, and 4th gear where 5th gear is, then put it all back together. i have been pondering this for about 3 weeks now, and thought id see if anyone had any suggestions as to where to get this...
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    little house on the prarie

    when im really board, i dial into youtube, and watch movies, or tv shows. have been on a little house on the prairie marathon today, something about being in Minnesota just got me feeling all nostalgic. they are normally in 10 minuet videos, and you have to find the next one in line for the...
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    using a hidden cell phone to track equipment

    it is just a thought, after reading that the same woman has stolen two cargo vans from fleet owners in the last few months. some cell pones have gps. would it be possible to run a hidden cigarette lighter plug behind the interior panels, and plug a cell phone up with a car charger that the...
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    id like to know more about hotshots.

    it's kinda funny, i always thought that it would be high fuel prices that put me out of buisness. but it looks to be low fuel prices, and a lac of freight. and so, because my pick up truck is already paid for, how dose a guy get into doing hot shot loads. dose it require getting my own dot...
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    but it had an ottowa file number on the bill

    ok, border crossing can be nightmarish at times. especially when your the second half of a swap, and the first guy seems to have forgotten the customs invoice. tonight i sit here and watch the guy i just swapped with scramble around the truck stop running in and out doing the fax thing because...
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    concidering hiring a co driver.

    I am a tractor owner, and am concidering hirin a co driver, the keep the truck moving, because im tired of loosing all my good loads to teams. question is, how do i figure out what to pay someone for beig a second seet driver. is there a recomended chart somewhere i can go by, or is it jsut pot...
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    how many background checks are required?

    First off, let me say that i do not have a group of hula dancers in grass skirts, and a few hundred rolls of duck tape in the bunk, and side box. I am not the evil genius mastermind intent on taking over the world. I am a truck driver. that is it, plain and simple. With that being said, how...
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