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Heck Steve we have dead headed several hundred miles for a load less then a hundred miles and made great money. Just depends on what the load is, how much special handling it requires on how well it pays.

Our customer is FCC and it is their job to get us into their customer so nope we do not need to call a FCC customer. If though they cannot get us good directions we will do a three way call with the customer and get better directions and hopefully FCC will update their data base. If we are the...

Well heck Phil is that not how you chain? It is always dry and in daylight you put on your chains then you drive into the bad weather! How I wish...

We have sat with dispatch a few times and some of those calls the dispatcher gets just amaze me. Sitting with dispatchers listening to some of the stuff they are told also amazes me and I wonder at the gall people have. We each have a job to do and I do not really care what problems the...

Yep you have the right OVM!! All I can say is I am glad we are out here making our money and they are in there going home every night making their money. No way would I want to trade places.

That is the point though the carrier quotes a customer a price and then they have to cover the load anyway they can. If the load does not pay enough we refuse it until the load does pay enough. The profit margin the carrier makes is their problem and the profit margin we make is our problem.

When we are sent in to pick up a B load the customer will often ask will our rates change since we are getting a bigger truck? The customer will not see any difference in their rate unless they decide to put more freight on our truck and the weight changes to where the customer would need a...

I have come to the conclusion men cannot read Women on the walls. What irritates me about a man using the women’s bathroom is they cannot raise the seat and they have a problem flushing the toilet when finished. It is rather funny though when you are washing your hands and they come out of...

We also hope it works out and really never thought we would hear of him being able to truck again. We wish him all the best and I hope he enjoys being out here once again as much as we do. The company he is with should consider themselves lucky to have him!

Turtle that was our thoughts exactly when we listened to the interview as our carrier uses PC Miler and we could match routes with them. Sounds like we will stand back and watch to see what happens as we really have grown to trust our Lowrance iWay 500c and know what the "warts' are with her...

One of the things to take into consideration when a person is complaining about how a company treated them is you are only getting the side of the disgruntled driver. We are not seeing the carrier’s side on what they saw happening with that complaint. There are times I am sure when a driver...

One of the options I heard about was that if you turn onto a NO TRUCKS road the road changes color and will try to re route you off of that road. It sounds as if the 430 has tons and tons of options and you can turn many features off and on.

Bob and I would also like to wish you two a very Happy Birthday! We would also like to thank you guys for how much you have done for us with this site and your dedication to the workshops and the truck shows you have a booth at. What you guys have done is give us the tools to make us...

Hey Happy Birthday to Lawrence and to Debbie! Hope you guys have two really good days and we wish you the best. Thanks Lawrence for all you have done and bringing this great group of people together. Debbie, Thank you for all you do behind the scenes without you working in the background I am...

I knew you were pulling my leg but you know Pizza is a good start to standing around having a conversation about a company. We attended an impromptu Landstar cookout at one of the Expos with a bunch of us sitting around talking and we sure learned a lot of great things about that company...

Nice OVM no one was giving out Pizza that day or who knows..... One thing I do know is that what ever carrier we went with we were going to do the best we could and we would learn that system inside and out.

We have not had to chain yet either but we have run on ice and had no problems. I am sure with chains and as slow as we go they will act no different then the duals did. The tires though do not seem to like slick mud and I would not suggest these tires to anyone that runs on dirt roads a lot.

Many customers can tell you a horror story about a “company” and you know what the worst part is? The customer is usually only talking about what one representative of that company did that reflects on the whole of the company. How often have you heard we will never use “insert company name...

We have a bunch of those free magnets to hand out to customers that we give away all year. After Thanksgiving though we buy hard candy or this year I could not find the hard candy so turned to candy canes to hand out. I get cellophane and make a small bag add the wrapped hard candy and then...

I think that is a really neat idea!!!! That has to be a lot of fun. I think it would show even more good will to include all expediters as we are all out here doing the same job and with the same problems.