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Humble, TX (Houston), out of service, resting. No dispatch complaints here. We are grateful to agent for getting $500 detention time pay to truck for a delivery that was supposed to be made Wednesday afternoon. Delivery was refused because, due to a shipper schedule mix-up, the required observer...

A petition has surfaced on change.org that reads as follows: The FLSA exemption for trucking, exempting interstate truck drivers from overtime wages is as old as the driver daily records (log book) regulations that have been rewritten in the last few years. The exemption was a political...

That's the best kind of sleep. Love waking up from snoozes like that.

If I understood the officer correctly, and even he might have been incorrect, the $500 was not for a clean inspection but for a clean year that included a clean inspection. Any driver who considers $500 excessive has the option of returning $450 of it. ;)

Part of the conversation yesterday with Louisiana DOT officer who passed me on a Level 2: Officer: (Handing me the form to sign) Here you go, no violations. Me: (Returning the signed form) Thank you. Officer: Do you get any special bonus for this? Me: No, not really. But Landstar appreciates...

We once had a fleet owner who encouraged us to go in for a voluntary inspection so as to save the cost of getting a DOT inspection at a truck stop. This was before CSA. The truck failed because the officer found a loose U-bolt "up under there that is hard to see." We were required to get it...

That's the way it seems to me too.

The new guy has no experience with trucking to speak of, but he replaces LaHood and may replace Ferro as he brings his own people in. Those are two things in his favor.

That's a good point, and true.

That's one of the things Diane and I have come to enjoy about Landstar Express America. After you deliver a load, it is entirely up to you what you do next and you have full freedom to do it. There are no express centers, dwell time, time since last dispatch, distance to next pick up...

Recent Developments: Haslam's reaching out to carriers has prompted charges by one carrier that the reaching out is such that it "may may constitute an improper attempt to coerce parties and witnesses under Tennessee law.” Story here In a recent statement, Pilot Flying J said, "In addition...

Things may have changed since Diane and I left that carrier in 2011, but when we were there, we quickly learned to disregard statements from dispatch and notficiations via Qualcomm that we were "needed" in a particular area. Needed to them meant that an area was not covered by trucks in case a...

We delivered once to a pharmaceutical company where the driver's door leads not to the docks but to a reception room and then to the docks. Mounted on the wall is a box of shoe covers. Signs explain to put them on and then go to the door that leads to the docks. Someone will come to that door...

Your mention of contractors is interesting. What do you mean by "contractors?" Thinking back on our experience, we have never been inspected at a scale by anyone other than a uniformed officer. Is this something different or new?

I presume OVM will have a booth selling official OVM dance pants so we can look good while dancing in Big John's demo class?

Sorry we missed you. Dinner would have been nice. Breakfast would have worked if you had left a note. Our truck was there but we were not most of the time. We rented a car and spent most of Saturday and Sunday touring the attractions in Philadelphia.

Strange indeed. Few topics stay on topic for long as natural conversational flow takes them from one topic to another. We are not as far off topic as you may think. You raised the issue of corporate greed. I'm responding by asking expediters to consider their own greed and by implication...

Yesterday we were in Hungtion Beach, parked in the lot there, taking a day off to spend on the beach and explore the town. Fun times too.

I don't get your meaning, bubblehead. If it is not a Florida vacation home, what else would it be? It is not our primary residence. It is located in Florida. We go there to take a winter vacation instead of hauling freight in some of the winter months.

It is commendable to give money to charity, underprivileged children, etc.; and a car to an unwed mother. And you are correct. I did not know you did such things. But the question I raised remains the same. Let me reword it into two questions for clarity. This is not about you, Zorry. It's...