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I can appreciate your curiosity, however, I need info on Express-1. When I find a new company to lease with I will post the entire story of this thrilling epic debacle.

We are looking for information and opinions about Express-1. We are being forced to leave our current company and are seeking a new company to lease on with. We are team drivers and owner/operators of a straight truck. We have been driving for a few years now and like expediting. I'm hoping to...

The company we drive for has stopped paying all together. We are owed over 6000.00. We were told many times we would be paid by a certain time and it did not happen. We received a small pittance yesterday. Many other drivers have not been paid either. Neither the owner or anyone else called to...

We bought the Worldnav GPS with truck routing software. It was very user UNfriendly. We had a Tomtom and it started malfuntioning. We decided to give the worldnav a shot. big mistake. It is very hard to use and does not offer many of the on screen options we had become used to with the Tomtom...

We bought the world nav trucker GPS and returned in one day. I won't get into technical issues because I not that smart but I will say this; It is not user friendly at all. It put us off route constantly even though we were only ten miles from our destination on a state hwy. which the...

I watched the oil ceos testify before congress and try to convince everyone the high prices at the pump are not their fault, but are market driven. Yet the billions in profits for their companies just won't support their testimony. The night of 9-11-01 there was a gas panic in Michigan and...

The quote is "I am as constant as the Northern Star, of whose true-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament". From the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar. R and B

My first time was 1974. I was 18 years old and had never been to a concert. I don't recall how I decided to go to this particular concert or why. It was in Flint, Michigan (my home town), at in I.M.A Auditorium, downtown. The main act was Joe Walsh and the James Gang. I had heard Joe Walsh...

You can drive if you are taking insulin injections, but you need a waiver from the dot. It is a lengthy, complicated and time consuming process, not to mention expensive. It involves getting your waiver application filled out by an endocronoligist, not a g.p., who has to approve you fit for...

My wife and I have been driving for Panther since April of this year and have had several loads cancel. We never asked why and never knew how to check anywhere to see what happened to them. We never even thought to. But I will tell you this. We delivered a load to the consignee and the consignee...

I was told by a tire salesman I could get as much as 300,000 miles out of a set of good tires, if I maintain them properly and I am lucky enough to drive on good roads and have light loads. I have 50,000 miles on my current set and they look like they may make it to 300,000 miles or maybe more...

I asked an older driver, many years ago, how he stayed awake when he got sleepy. He said the best way he knew of was to hold your arm out the window with a $100.00 bill in your hand. Seriously though, we all have had to drive when sleepy and it is no fun. What works best for me is in most of...

I have a Powerpac apu and am very happy with it. You are right, they can save a lot of money for a larger truck. They can also save you from a dead battery. However, they can be large and quite heavy. Go to a truck show and see many of them in one place. We were at the truckers jamboree at the...

This is a great thread and we are looking forward to meeting some of our fellow drivers. Thanks Leo. We are Ramon and Barb Shimmons and we started driving for Panther in April of 2007. Our home base is in Petoskey, Michigan. We drive a 2007 M-2 Freightliner with a 96" Bentz condo/sleeper. Very...

I have been giving serious thought to puting a TAG axle or second axle on the rear of our 2007 freightliner, M2-Business Class. We only haul 11,000lbs. now and are missing load offers. Any suggestions about a reputable outfit to get this job done?

My wife and I are doing a 34hr. restart at the Pilot, exit 129, off I-85, in Braselton, GA. Just wanted the other drivers to know this is a very clean, medium size Pilot and there is a small strip mall about 2-3 hundred yards east with a chinese, mexican and barbeque restaurants. The food is...

I have a Freightliner M-2, Business Class and I have not yet bought a stand. Would like to get it right the first time.

This should be an easy one. I have been driving for a few weeks now and I see some trucks with a swivel stand for their laptop or Qaulcomm unit. Where do I get one and how much do they generally cost. By the way, I really like reading all the helpful info you veteran drivers give on this web...

Hello everyone! My wife and I are getting into the expedite business and would like some opinions on truck dealerships and the best truck and condo set-up. We have talked to Alumi-Bunk and are currently talking to Freightliner of Knoxville. I realize this is somewhat of a...