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    Disappearing Threads

    Good to see this sunomi of a post has built, crested. and now appears to have subsided.. I guess the old axiom of "even bad press is good press" this "deleted" post got 50 + post!!!! (an unintended consequence) peaked everybodies interest and has stayed on top for days .. Go2...you won! But it...
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    Disappearing Threads

    I am glad I got to see GO2GO's orginal post to see what the rumbbling was about. I can understant the frustration he feels with a name brand carrier not beig able to deliver (no pun intended).On the promise of huge miles in todays economy. If it were up too this carrier They would have more...
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    What is the strangest load that you did as an expediter?

    Oh ...my favorite ..2 pallets 1800lbs of 07 calenders to be delivered to the offices Lear Jet offices in down town Arlington across the potomic river .The plus ..I could see the capitol and Washintom monument from their 15 th floor offices..down side it was no touch delivery on a loading dock...
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    What is the strangest load that you did as an expediter?

    A small explosive with the impact of half the power of an M-80...from lockhead atlanta to california ..it weighed 25 lbs most being the container it was in. had to run all explosive routs through california.. yee haa .. and a box of rivetts 2lbs .Was suppose 2 get 2 boxs but they wern't ready...
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    Southern Senators Oppose Big Three Bailout

    Im with Tennesse on this one ..22 /Hr is gold these days (Relative to the cost of living)And the southern plants will preserve jobs for their kids .. There is plenty of greed to go around from top to bottom and I believe capitolst markets do correct themselves. Anybody in the world can...
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    If GOV were a business they would be in jail

    LIST OF ALL POSSIBLE TAXES PAID FEDERAL INCOME TAX (UNCONSTITUTIONAL) STATE INCOME TAX SALES TAX ADVALORUM TAX (CAR) CIGGERRET TAX LIQUOR TAX FEDERAL GAS TAX STATE GAS TAX SOCIAL SECURITY TAX TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY BENIFITS DEATH TAX (MONEY TAXED WHEN MADE,THEN TAXED AGAIN AND...
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    Time to take action...

    With al due respect and admiration for your accomplishments Lawerence, Do you endorse this message from GM? Consider if you were to have 10 employees in your office who were unionized . And you were in the same situation. Gm has a multilayered problem. But no flexibility to solve it. Remember...
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    Longer GM shut down this Christmas

    Take a little "fun cash" you know something you would spend at a casino and buy some .GM is not going anywhere. either way they go bankrupsy or bailout they will have to renegociate and become leaner
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    If GM fails, what then?

    Wat up Moot and all the rest .. I ve be come some what of a home body (stay n local ). My daughter was stretching her legs a little far as a teen ager and felt a need tocome home and get the kid back on track ... I left the road in feb of 2007 Sold the old battle ship..Took some 2 months off and...
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    If GM fails, what then?

    Its already failed... Let it die and be reborn... We went too san antonio toyota.. the place was popin... $47 pay plus bennifit The big three..$75 cost plus beniiefits per employee The unions are holdind there kids future employment hostage. Greed from the top too the bottom of these...
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    Analyzing Freight Slowdown

    Every body has caught on to this type of hauling ..lots of promotion from Eo and others has successfully attracted many to the industry..the only winners now are the vendors advertisers (eo)selling the "dream travel job" ..look at it like this the people in the nintees who were in realestate...
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    An Economic and Trucking Slowdown is Happening Now

    RE: An Economic and Trucking Slowdown is Happening truckin has alays been the canary in the coal mine ...It the first to know and the first to go ....But .. if when it gets good its the first to know and the first to get going ... th e plan all you good stuards of business who have been saving...
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    HOS, Driver Shortage Top Trucking’s Concerns

    Driver shortage code for "lets flood the work pool for even cheaper pay"
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    OOIDA UPDATE

    Keep up the good fight !!persistance overcomes resistance ,,,, democrat debate to spanish tv see the comments on the Drudge report.. uunbelievable they sound like some of those republicans ...let them stay give them citizenship some are even wanting them to have spanish as a second...
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    TEAMS

    If you are a LLc treat you and the co driver as employees for your compampny ..60/40 or whatever percentage the company gets and you (owner) and codriver get the other split ..your company (you) gets the expenses paid for and you and the driver split the salary so technically youget the...
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    Mexican trucks begin this weekend ...

    Packmule im with you on the labor unions its an uncomfortable feeling for sure finding myself siding with them.I look at like this..The previous president and the present one along with the present congress (both sides)have introduced forien labor as a way to cheat the game. Its as if in a...
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    Mexican trucks begin this weekend ...

    Sorry about the union rant... it will do what it was intended to in 94. clinton wanted to gut the money out of trucking and manufactoring an bush is a dumb arse because he agrees with him... it will possibly be huge and the money will be gone out of this industry .. as for labor day weekend they...
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    Mexican trucks begin this weekend ...

    yes Like government unions are not for the people its for the leaders aquisition of power...the union bosses live in the big houses and go to all the fancy dinners with the politicians ...they are in the same club anf like voters who keep stepping in crap but dont seem to care about it well ther...
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    understand the definition of O/Os

    the post should have been in the form of a question..and terry is right . owner opoerater is exactly that you own you operate you repair insure you cost this leaves the carrier with only the business of taking phone calls and relaying them to the driver. Crazy dont be offended by a question...
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