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I remember seeing that load the other day! On a Straight truck, absolutely. Your "expensive truck" would be getting more expensive by sitting right now, There are a lot of things worse than $1.03 all miles right now. However, you would've probably gotten a load once you got back into Canadian...

All you guys that think you have the freight lanes figured out these days need to just keep on deadheading out of Florida when you come. It just means more freight is going to local carriers like myself and less to the big national expedite carriers. Charles, I agree he is in breach of...

Hey Guido. DaveKC is right. The issue with unsubstantiated claims on here is a legal one. If a carrier isn't paying you, they won't be paying EO, and therefore won't be advertised here. I'm sure you wouldn't like it is another O/O with your company suddenly called them to report you of some...

Yeah, I know. Unfortunately, I had lent out my left-handed monkey wrench to another O/O,

Dogs, cats, iguanas, minks, rabbits, monkeys, live snakes and bees. They've all seen my truck at some point.

I delivered a cat head once to the health dept. for rabies testing. Evidently, they were hoping to come up negative on the cat head, so the little 4 year old boy that had been bitten didn't have to undergo rabies shots. Ouch!

I for one am ALWAYS predispatched. Just ask me. Heck, I've got five loads lined up right now..... Unfortunately, the last time I was predispatched with that many loads, I inadvertently ran out of blinker fluid in the middle of the Everglades and had to forfeit the other four runs. Such is...

I wish it weren't so, but when demand is high and supply has slowed, it puts many companies in "survival" mode. If you're with a smaller carrier, ie. 300 units or less, you company may have worked really hard to get you that "cheap load" that you just turned down. It may not be their shipper...

Well I haven't been around here much lately. Sometimes it's just too depressing when listening to so many bad stories about no freight or no pay. This may be more info than is warranted to this particular thread, but here goes. Mods have my cooperation in moving this it indeed it does not...

Oh, I know there is a lot more. Unfortunately, there are many carriers who won't acknowledge that, and they (and their O/Os) are suffering for it.

Poorboy, All I know about that Ford place is that it has a test track there. I knew guys who delivered air shipments from Tampa to that site. usually it was several skids of special tires.

Hey Dean. It's not just your carrier most likely. Every former auto worker and his brother that are living in Michigan are on a fleet with someone driving a cargo van. Besides that, automotive freight, which would be your most likely commodity coming out of MI, is almost non-existent in...

If you're a Panther driver, please press 1. If you're an agent, please press 2. (presses 2) If you know the last five digits of your pro number, please enter them now, or press 9 to speak with a broker. (presses 9 to avoid as much foolishness as possible)

I would be calling one's supervisor, or in this case, one's "stupidvisor" to get that taken off. Someone needs a geography lesson there. Are they still hiring temps?

Yeah, I don't think there is anything longer than 10 foot. Too hard to ship. You can butt them against each other when you install them for a "seamless" appearance. There are also end caps you can get so the edges aren't exposed. I seem to always cut myself or tear my shirt at the oddest...

Most carriers will take something older if it's a class 8 truck. Anything beneath a class 8 is generally 4-5 years. My class 8 straight truck is a 2000 FLD, and it's just getting broken in good at 810,000 miles.

That would be the one case. I still don't envy you if you're changing fields. The is a learning curve to being successful.

I don't envy anyone who wants to switch to a new field right now.

Well, the "Office of the President-Elect" (when has their ever been such a thing?) held his emergency meeting with his economic advisors the other day to discuss the implementation of this gas tax, so I guess he is complete at the heart of this already. I didn't vote for him either, so I guess...

Very common, especially in the day when you have carriers bidding on loads from NLM, Aero and Ryder before they even know if they can cover it. Three of them will post the loads within 10-15 minutes. I've even had two or three people call me to handle the same run. I tell the first, "Sorry...