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OVM, I assume that you are referring to drivers that maintain a log of HOS and not a driver of a logging truck. What possible cost effective reason would an owner of a day cab have for adding an APU for the purpose of heating and cooling the cab? Same question for an interstate tow truck or a...

We need Howdy Doody, Princess Summerfallwinterspring and Phineas T. Bluster

Co-Drivers come in many different categories and I suspect each have different sets of rules by which they either choose to abide or are required to abide depending on the terms of their work agreement. You have an owner with a co-driver, a driver with a co-driver, or co-owners that are...

I'd be inclined to believe the other driver if he had two qualcomm antennas. A savvy DOT inspector would probably inquire about the antennas and surmise with two antenna, there must be two sets of logs, permits and truck markings.

The GM plant at Wentzville, MO has been calling people back to work, citing a recent supply of axles from an alternate supplier. This plant assembles the GM cargo vans.

This State law would only apply to day cab truck operators who shouldn't be sleeping in the truck. I fail to see an unreasonable issue here. Why would a day cab operator need an APU for heat or A/C? But, fining the owner for a driver's indiscretion is unreasonable

I agree with pjjjjj. Many van drivers have a CDL but that does not mean that they drive their van as a commercial motor vehicle.

Nana: I've been using travel agents' services for business and personal travel since the early 70's. My latest use was last month on a trip to Germany when the agent's package saved me no money over prices I could have gotten on my own. The value I have received was 'service' and 'advice'...

Good luck Gator!

I'd think $900 installed plus tax

There are two separate and distict events being discussed. Deductions for an auto rental and deductions for a hotel. For a taxpayer to suggest that he could have taken a legitimate deduction for a hotel, but since he didn't, he can take this other deduction whether authorized or not. Each...

Most, if not all, EO Forum members and lurkers receive one or more trade publications. On Time Media's Expedite Now digest, Landline and Overdrive are popular sources of trucking industry news, activities and article of general interest. But, Did you know that a source for a wide variety of...

Get yourself a Hammaka and a bumper dumper and you'll be livin' large, down by the river.

Nana: As an expediter, you'd know the entertainment budgets of your fellow expediters are pretty slim. We could be interested in showing some interest in participating in an event if we knew what event you had in mind. We could also get some friends together and buy some travel tickets from any...

I'm with crazy on this one. Log it; deduct it. If you used the rental to transport and or safeguard your business equipment such as GPS, CB, computer, BOLS and logs, as well as your personal stuff, you'd have a legitimate reason to deduct the "necessary for business use of the rental." The...

I'll have a strawberry popesicle please! Perhaps wash it down with a Popsi Cola

Hawkeye: Turtle's comments describe my early adult years perfectly. I got married in 1964 and, as a young sailor, I spent four of my first seven months of marital bliss at sea while my new bride worked at her job in Boston, Mass. In 1965, I was transferred to a ship homeported in Hawaii. I left...

The following excerpt from DOT regulations may be the appropriate reference to BOL information in this thread. Note that the regulation doesn't require the broker to give you a copy of the information but must allow you to review the information. §371.3 Records to be kept by brokers. (a) A...

I'm not sure why this thread has gotten so far afield of my initial post, but it has. I was prompted to share my opinions because of the many negative comments in EO posts related to drivers repeatedly being dispatched around and believing that they were the victims of dispatch favoritism. My...

David: One of the flaws in the software, as I see it, is that it rounds minutes off to hours. If the computer polls each of our trucks at 14:01, by 14:59, I could realistically travel 50 miles to your location before the next hourly polling. At 14:59 the computer thinks I am 50 miles closer...