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    Met an owner op who does some interesting things

    perhaps I need some new legal people
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    Met an owner op who does some interesting things

    just got the news from my legal people
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    Met an owner op who does some interesting things

    I met an owner op who requires his drivers who drives his trucks to carry 3 log books. One to show to the "man" one for the accounting people, and one for him to keep at his home office if he gets audited. Just got one thing to say Ohh hell no Then I heard from my legal people...
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    Getting annoyed with paper log books

    I am my own carrier and my own authority. Id probably have to check with the communist dictator ship known as Michigan state police motor carrier division.
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    Getting annoyed with paper log books

    Thinking of going paperless, any ideas? I was thinking of taking a page out of Werner's playbook but I don't really wanna pay for the qualcomm uplink
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    I love sun micro systems

    Google container data center tour - YouTube Only 1 part of what it takes to run google, IBM Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC) Tour - Part 1 of 6 - YouTube The container kind of looks like this I've moved skids of google search appliances before. (Official googlized technical term) and...
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    I love sun micro systems

    The container is the trailer. The water connections are for the passive heat fins. When it gets really hot from all the I T equipment going the water flowing through the fins absorbs the heat. Kinda like a trans cooler in a truck.
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    I love sun micro systems

    I have a Black Box mobile data center connected to my truck. Its housed in a 20 foot shipping container that sun micro systems makes specific for this set up. Plug it in to a water and power source and network source and you can manage all kinds of web based applications. Cost, more than my...
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    Whats the strangest thing you have hauled?

    When I first started in my trucking career I worked for Werner enterprise and I hauled a refer trailer with cadavers in it to UCLA for new medical examiners to study. Perhaps I should be an ME the work is always steady
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    Whats the strangest thing you have hauled?

    I haul just about anything under the sun that is less than a straight truck load but bigger than a sprinter. The strangest thing I have hauled so far this month was documents.
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    I increased my trucks blue book value

    It also helps to be your own authority, you can set your own rates
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    I increased my trucks blue book value

    Agree with you on diesel as an extra
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    I increased my trucks blue book value

    I did it again this week
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    I increased my trucks blue book value

    I put diesel in it
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    I increased my trucks value

    However I did have to buy a locking fuel cap because someone sucked 30 gallons out in the Detroit area
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    I increased my trucks value

    I put diesel in it ;)
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    Flat bed straight trucks

    Would they be worth it?
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    Going on I80 through Nebraska

    2007 FREIGHTLINER Columbia The trucks looked kind of like this, as far as the fuel savings when I drove one of there company trucks they either used Detroit diesel engines or Cat engines. If you Idled them they burned 2 gallons of diesel an hour or they were configured to shut off after 10...
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    Going on I80 through Nebraska

    I delivered a sleeper cab body to my old stomping grounds Werner enterprise. I ran into my old dispatcher Gairy who did not know from his *** when it came to reading a map. I am so glad I left that company, but I seen Werner is getting into straight trucking. At there yard where I picked...
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    Sold my Rhl185

    Got a f550 cheaper to insure :D I increased its bluebook value, I put diesel in it.
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