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    A Thought about Speed Limiters

    Here’s a thought about the speed limiter issue for Canadian loads. If your truck engine is under warranty and Canadian officials plug into your ECM to check the speed setting and something goes wrong and your ECM gets fried, who pays for the repair/replacement of the ECM? If someone other...
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    New Truck GPS

    I was looking at Land Line magazine yesterday and saw an ad for a GPS made for trucks. I went to the website and according to the manufacturer, the GPS has hazmat routing, low clearence notifacations, and rerouting. It has all the maps preloaded for the US and canada. It has voice turn by turn...
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    Trucker magazine's new look

    I just picked up the first issue of Downtime. It's the new name of the trade magazine Through The Gears, available for free at most truck stops. Instead of all the usual truck topics, it has lots of puzzles in it, as well as articles on fishing, NASCAR, football, baseball, and other sports...
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    Purchasing a camera system for my truck

    I am thinking about putting a camera system in my truck. I don’t know if I should go with the color cameras or the black and white, can anyone out there make any recommendations? I will be purchasing the system from Safety Vision, and I will be using a 4 camera system, 1 on each side, 1 in...
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    A units and toll road allowances

    Hi Everyone, I was reading our carriers latest weekly bulletin, and began to think (I know I was thinking cause my wife said she smelled something burning and smoke was coming out of my ears), if we have no A units, how can we have an A load? I would think that since our smallest truck is a B...
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    Panther II T-Val

    Does anyone out there know how the T-Val units are doing who are signed on with Panther? What's the average pay per mile for a T-Val unit? Are the T-Val C units doing as well as the D units.
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