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You are right we have to pay tax for every mile we run in a state. Buy the fuel is where it is cheapest after taxes. I ran some fuel prices and how they would affect us: Oregon does not collect a fuel tax and their price of fuel always looks awesome at the pump not so awesome to IFTA...

This is a topic that is debated in our family as two of us use facebook and texting often while the other two do not. I have found that it is can be hard to stay in the here and now while with friends. I have become accustomed to easily asking a question of a friend who is far away as I do a...

We are leased to FedEx Custom Critical. One thing that we notice is the divisions of FedEx do not work together we all go our separate ways and do our own thing. We use their terminals when directed to perform a transfer of freight and for us that does not happen often. When we are going to...

FM roads or farm to market roads is what we call them. Not sure if we made that up or it is fact!

This was a very interesting call with a lot of good information shared. The call lasted an hour, and the hour flow by. I know I will feel more comfortable responding to the hours of service proposal then I would have before the call. if you were not on the call listen to the recording it is...

Another place that we find this issue a lot is in Texas.

Information for everyone on how to submit our comments to the FMCSA Information below on how to get on conference call or to listen to what all was discussed Truckers for a Cause will host an educational conference call on “Do’s and Don’ts of submitting comments to FMCSA” Jan. 22 at noon...

What is your fuel mileage and speed if you get the RPM's down to 1250. Going to have to slow down some and see what happens at that speed. That truck appears to be spec'd to run 55 mph We have a CAT 300 6 speed auto 488 rears if we get to 60 mph we get b below 9 mpg

Jeff's articles is how we became interested in Expediting. When we were researching the industry we read everything and anything that Jeff had written. He had many articles about people in the industry, what worked for people what did not. Jeff was the first person to interview Bob and I and...

This site had a lot of online tests that have been very helpful to me. They not only have HazMat they have it all and many versions of the test. Crist CDL Training Center - Tractor Trailer / Truck Driver Training School

Once again at MATS there will be a reception followed by a group picture trying to break the record of the most women CDL holders in one place. Last year we were close to the record and this year we hope to blow the record out of the water! The reception is a blast with great refreshments. We...

You are talking about two different things. Our lift gate is used when there in not a dock. We can unload anywhere any time. We have a pusher axle which is a liftable dead axle that sits in front of our drive axle. If the axle sits behind the drive axle it is called a tag axle. We use our...

We have found the GPS to be a waste of time and do not bring up that screen. If a person did not have a GPS I am sure it would be nice. Compared to our very old Lowrence GPS and our Rands the QC GPS just takes up space. My new Motto "You can never have to many GPS's in a truck" and my...

This sounds very interesting to me. I want our letter to make a point. Truckers for a Cause will host an educational conference call on “Do’s and Don’ts of submitting comments to FMCSA” Jan. 22 at noon Central Standard Time. John Hill, former Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration...

What in the world are you rattling on about now? Reply to what you would like to ... I made an observation about myself and that posts I have made in jest were not perceived in jest as the smile behind the words were not seen. One was directly pointed at you if you remember in the past. I...

I am sure not going to be the one to tell you what to do.

OVM I understand i was replying to Jujubeans and her post on rude people. We all can be perceived as being rude even when we are joking around with each other by someone who is lurking on the forums.

Before I call anyone's posts rude I look at myself. How will a new person look at a post that is a joke but looks very rude? How will that post give anyone the confidence to post? Example is a post I recently posted where OVM called it wordy and that Layoutshooter said it much better in less...

Some companies require us to have the capacity to handle a certain amount of weight per vehicle size. It us up to us as drivers to not haul so much personal stuff that we cannot load the required weight. This is also true of being able to give the customer the required amount of space. Our...

I am on a Mac and I did get this email.