Recent content by rollincoal

ELD's have made this job even worse. Forced to take "rest" breaks when you're not tired with no common sense flexibility allowed. And trucking continues to be a low paying job overall no matter how much BS you read about companies increasing pay. Who in their right mind would choose to get...

Looks like the shortcomings of Uber Freight are being exposed. So a brilliant techie or techies that didn't even have a rudimentary understanding of the "ancient, wasteful hundreds of billions trucking industry" thought they were going to get rich. Look at all the money they burned. Hopefully...

That's cheap. I'm out $115+/- every time :confused2: I always get rainx treatment on the truck and trailer too it's good stuff. Seems to really make the unit shine. If the truck is parked during a rainshower after having been treated with rainx and not terribly dirty it will actually look...

Can you take small cargo vans and the like to a Blue Beacon? I sometimes see RV's and dually's pulling travel trailers so I don't know why not. Most (not all) Blue Beacons have an undercarriage wash. It sprays under the chasis really well. I sometimes wash my semi weekly in the winter when...

That place is kinda rough. I would never stop there for anything. It was even worse before a flood several years ago destroyed the old T/A that was there. The old one was really a dump. They arrested a serial killer trucker there several years ago. That story was all in the news I think...

Let me start by saying I don't haul any hot shot freight and really don't know much of anything about it. I do work off loadboards though doing tractor trailer power only, dry van and reefer moves. DAT, specifically DAT Power, is my preferred tool. Most of my buddies in the open deck and heavy...

I used to operate in sort of a part time manner. It works OK when freight is busy. When an (inevitable) industrywide downturn occured starting in early 2015 I found myself getting a tad lean running that somewhat part time schedule. A big lesson I learned from the difficult times of 2015 and...

In the past 6 years of running spot freight it's always been surprising the various brokers I've ran across who had good expedited truck load freight. It was largely automotive freight. Sometimes it would be carriers helping a customer or covering their own shortcoming and sometimes not...

Read that he's working for Mead Trans the asset side of S-2. S-2 better keep a tight rein on their corporate credit cards lol.

What group is that? Did he get a job at S-2 International? Apparently his wife did. She's allegedly bringing lots of experience in the expedited business to the table. Lol...

Sounds like someone I know named Bill Hood.

I don't even know who Peter H is. My observation is there's a lot of Euro trash companies around Chicago driving around in junk equipment running down rates, etc. I just assumed that was another one of them. It's really not so different than here down south all the rednecks in junk doing the...

No, but there's a bunch of them that are.

Just a dig at euro trash Chicago based companies. The company in question appears to be one of those.

Its hard to feel sorry for anyone who willingly signs up for this. And some of those drivers didnt even know what they were signing..... But even if they did read the contract most people will actually knock down the doors to sign up for a rip off lease purchase contract. Just hand them the...