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3000 hrs in 400 days??? That's 7.5 hrs a day since install (every day) I can't imagine you needing it for that log a period, every day of the year. Must be a typo? Eh?

Yes, and that certainly is a "FEW" things. So, ya got six months in the business, and, ya wanna bite the whole thing off? Tsh,tsh. I'd love to help, but, I don't have enough skin left on my fingers.

You are allowed 34,000 on tandems, but, not over 20,000 on either axle in some states. You are allowed 12,000 on the steer, for a total of 46,000. With a tag your truck will weigh about 26,000 leaving a 20,000 payload. Approximately. There are veriables depending on how far you split the...

Maybe there is some learning available here for others contemplating a truck purchase. 1. Never allow sales personnel to tell you what you need. Tell the vendor what YOU want and need. 2. After you have plunked a large pile of cash in someones account, is NOT the time to scale your new truck...

Jes bust'in your chops Leo. However to clarify my definition a of a classic Newbee, it would be someone whom has likely been downsized, freshly retired, or, just changing, that has done little more than lean on a truck, with a freshly minted CDL, with accumulated windshield time that it took...

But Leo, Isn't it a little unusual to advocate the risky idea of placing newbs in a truck, and not support the idea? Or, are you supporting the idea with someone elses truck, just not yours? Wondering if you are not supporting your whole idea, just the parts you like?

That would be neat to experience. The cost to those buckles may not be too high in money value, but, think about the cost in blood, sweat and tears, over a Bull Riders career.

Even more telling, is the fact that after twenty years or so, and running a couple "toy" trucks, with one Carrier, we get a revelation that Class 8 is great. Seems a good share of our "experts" typing here, really have not done that, have not been there, and, there is no T-shirt in their...

Yep, experience! I wouldn't consider, even for the second, second, placing newbees in any of my equipment. Truck owners will realize this one day, (if most have not already). Wanabe fools will cause nothing but heartburn, for everyone, dispatchers, owners, themselves. There are a lot of...

Broom: you are looking at "things" much the same as I, these days. Ja bump ya haid?

That's good, you represent you and your Carrier in a way that would make anyone proud. According to you. It is a given that you could care less about your fellow O/O and drivers. That is not the whole I was refering to obviously. I choose not to share much with anyone except our Contractors...

Interestingly, it seem the average O/O will call, or, apply, then fade into the sunset for a few months, or, forever. Anticipating that they have given sufficient proof that they are the best thing since canned peaches, and expect the carrier to persue them like a bandit. Don't really work...

Leo, the "team" spirit, for the good of the whole does not exist out there. For the most part it's "me", "me", "me". Let "me" have the revenue sooo "I" can go home, or, go wherever. Folks just can't allow themselves to cooperate and graduate.

Yes, but, like any computing machine, when you put garbage in, you get garbage out. Even with one of renowned complexity. There in lies the problem with puter watchers and phone answerers as dispatchers. There has to be some background and socialization in your chosen endeavor to be good at...

Well Rocket, the non-participation should bout say it all. Like our Contractors, Transtewart folks are too busy to be horseing around on here.

Ah. You are staff for A BIG seven toed cat. Splains it, thanks. I anticipated you being staff for the big kittys. Hence the play with the word.

Yes, welcome on board! Depending at what age you are retireing, you may want to give some thinking to the fact that there have been a number of trucks for sale for health reasons. That may be a factor for spending for a truck for you. For some the rigors of this endeavor may speed up some...

Kinda makes ya wonder how many other times that has happened to you, don't it? Sounds like this time your buddy in the Atlanta truck maybe shouldn't have let you know what he was up to. Then you wouldn't be so uptight. That's one problem with those coffee clotches, and buddy making. It's good...

Sorry Leo. I read it that the Swifty driver said "I did". Little hard to tell without some punctuation.

Maybe the Staph is spreading. A hunnerd hours ain't nothing when you're waiting in paradise. Just think about the people around you that have spent hundreds to get where you are. Enjoy it for anuther week, and maybe a Virginia Beach load will come up. Can't get any better than a couple...