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    whats left

    I was just sitting here wondering how many trucks are left in the expediting world, i have seen so many friends leave expediting usually by going bankrupt that I feel the #'s have had to be reduced much further than what the companies are letting on. I also wonder what the future holds...
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    rates today

    wow, I have talked to drivers from several different companies today and cannot believe the rates they said [and a few even showed me] that they were being offered, one load offer at .85 cents a mile,another at .95 and a liftgate load at $1.05. others talking about loads at .75 to 1.25...
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    everyone should boycott California

    I have read and would/will support a truck shutdown to get changes made in this industry,however as it is being pointed out, the people organizing it are not very organized. The jan 3 to 8th dates are the most common dates i have seen on the net and heard about on the radio. While I am watching...
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    CARB

    Well since I was on a jag though this would be good time to rant on CA. and CARBs crazy mandates. I have read the news on what they want and have figured out it just ain't worth going to CA. anymore. I bought a new APU this year to keep comfortable,a new thermoking temp control unit for...
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    Italian strike

    Looks like the Italian driving community has had enough,i wonder how long before the American driving community wakes up and says enough is enough. been looking thru a bunch of sites and things are heating up one good one that a lot of info is starting to get to is madtrucker.com Italian...
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    Ohio strip clubs

    Got your attention didn't I lol, actually this is a response I posted on another site from a local paper but as you will see I was talking about a more important subject C/P seems to me it isn't or shouldn't be about the strip clubs but about the fact that the government is yet again reducing...
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    I found this interesting article on another websit

    his is a C/P [ I did add a few sentences of my own to it] from another forum but wow after the first part I agree with a lot of what is said,in fact I am going to send this too all of the political candidates running for office and let them know that the first one to declare this war gets my...
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    is there a reason someone is deleting my posts

    the last two posts I have made have disappeared would someone please explain
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    this is a sad state of affairs

    SPECIAL REPORT: Illinois House fails to override uniform speed veto this is the headline from landline magazine the senate soundly overroad the guvs veto and the house originally had the vote necessary to override it also but of course the spineless house members got scared and backed away...
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    new company

    its called FEDSEX,when you absolutely, positively, have to have it right now!! only problem is finding the recruiter to sing on with them, lol
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    fmcsa

    I just reread some of the stuff about the courts striking down the HOS. well the FMCSA has three monts to do what they are going to do, I had a thought, what if all they do is throw out the 34 hr reset, as expediters we sit a lot more than the truckload or ltl groups at least until they cannot...
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    C/P from another site and it ain't good news

    According to an article dated 7-24-07 in The Trucker News Services. Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its decision on Hours of Service choosing to vacate the 11-hour daily driving time and the 34-hour restart provisions of the regulations issued in August 2005...
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    improving fuel milage

    I have been trying different things over the past year to increase fuel milege and though I would share the results To start with I have a f-112...
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    whats the answer

    I thought I would throw this out and see what everyone thinks, As we all know expediting is changing and from what I have seen if ain't for the O/o's benefit, It seems like a race to the bottom on freight rates they are the same or even less than they were eight years ago. Expenses in that time...
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    medi quick

    Does anyone know anything about this company I can't even find it using a google search
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    no cheap freight

    I have been in the expedite business for 8 yrs. now and the revenue per mile is what it was when I started,expences have more than doubled, hours of service have made it harder to do this job,new and proposed rules have made it even harder,companys are nickel and dimeing the O/os to death, I am...
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