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After reading the responses to THawks post, I have another situation that I need help on: We were in Salt Lake City last week for 3 days with no load offers...we listed our truck on "Get Loaded.com" and got a hit from a local broker who offered us a load to Western Ontario. The load (1650...

I accepted a load with a .43 FSC and was paid .25 in the settlement.... I know that the surcharge in the load offer is an estimated amount, but this seems a little excessive to me. Sometimes I accept loads based on the fuel surcharge. In the above example there was a lot of deadhead on both ends...

Well here we sit in Dallas since Saturday. Checked board position with dispatch Saturday and told we were 2nd out and that Dallas has an average of 6 loads a day. We decided that we had a pretty good chance of a load out either Sunday or Monday..now it's going on Wednesday and we are now 5th out...

We did two hazmet loads in one week on which we had to take the ferry between Canada and the US. As most of you know, hazmet loads out of Windsor have to go by ferry. The other option is to drive north to Port Huron to take the bridge. Before we took the trips we ask Panther dispatch who would...

Any information on experiences with Panther Elite Services would be appreciated. Thanks

I have created a spreadsheet for the purpose of helping me make timely decisions after receiving a load offer. This sheet is for those working off a fixed rate per mile. I am working on a sheet for those that work off a percentage of load. I personally have a minimum pay limit that I...

These questions are for you experienced O/O out there. I created a spreadsheet to get an idea what it would cost me per mile to operate my own truck. Based on 120000 total miles driven per year(20% deadhead) and a $2000/mo. truck payment and using 9mpg fuel flow at $2.50/ gal. I came up with...

Can any of you PII owners tell me how long it takes to get your settlements from Panther?

The following quotes taken from Panther's most recent issue of its news magazine, "Panther Paws". These are the words of Mr. French, the director of operations. Mr. French: It’s 10:36 on Wednesday, October 18, 2006. Driver availability is at 63.7% and we have already turned down 78 customer...