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    Another

    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...
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    Fuel Surcharge Discrepancies

    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...
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    Board Position BS

    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...
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    Back Office Support ???????

    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...
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    Panther Elite Services

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

    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...
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    Truck Ownership

    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...
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    Panther pay periods

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

    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...
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