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Thank you, jaminjim. Bruno? Anyone else?

Nothing could be further from the truth. That fleet owner is someone who talked volumes to us about his circumstances and resons for leaving. I am not unfamiliar with the man and his circumstances. They are not circumstances that enable an easy apples-to-apples comparison. You fail to mention...

I am not asking about anything other than what Bruno's three best runs pay. The clear picture I am after is about run pay and nothing more. Driver variables make everything else cloudy. Run pay is something that can be compared apples to apples. Granted, there is more to comparing expedite...

Bruno is the one that set out to say "What it's like at Panther" so I thought it appropriate to ask him for more information about the runs he talked about. I used to give numbers about runs and months. All it got me was a ton of grief from people who accused me of lying or saying my numbers...

Can you provide a link to the thread?

If you are into refrigerator magnets, you might enjoy a visit to the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota (Twin Cities), when you ae next in the area. They have a store there that specializes in refrigerator magnets. It seems you are not alone in your magnet interest.

And the rest of the story is? If your intention is to imply that you are making more money at Panther, or that you are treated not like a number at Panther, you succeeded. If your intention is to provide facts about actual compensation and actual pay, more information is required for readers...

This is good to know. I have a couple more to send - MN and WI - but did not know if the class still wanted them. They will go out this weekend.

Diane and I have been told our carrier is non-directional (loads are dispatched without regard to where they take or leave a truck driver). We were told that before we signed up and signed up not expecting directional dispatch. It is nothing to complain about. We knew it going in. If you did not...

As others have pointed out, your friends do not understand the system. I want to encourage newbies to think about this a bit more. Here are people who are taking actions and getting upset based on what they know about the system, but not knowing that they do not know how the system really works...

You are nowhere near in as much trouble as the guy I saw in a hardware store. He was buying a weed whip for his wife's birthday gift and telling people in line at the checkout counter how good it was and how much she would enjoy it.

While it is true that many of the expediters that leave the business do so because they did not have good business sense or game plan, I am not sure it is true that there is more driver turnover than in O/O T/T driving. From talking to the recruiting departments at various expedite carriers and...

The current issue of Expedite NOW includes an article about uShip. Available in print now, it will appear online in the future. I had not paid much attention to uShip before reading the piece. After reading it, I explored the uShip.com web site and ended up spending a couple hours there, just...

Now I know what to get you for Christmas, gota go --a trucker jacket with Airtabs sewen onto the sleeves. and blue jeans with Airtabs on the legs. ;)

Not in this case. There were no on-ramps on this stretch of road.

I thought that might come up after I posted. I failed to mention that I did not turn my head to aim the small digital camera. I just pointed it in the general direction of the rear window and fired off a bunch of shots, some of which captured the scene. And yes, you are right. It would be really...

Driving a four-wheeler the other day, I was on a divided highway that closed one lane for road construction. As traffic slowed, a Mac dump truck came up on my bumper and hovered just inches away. Traffic sped up, I pulled away, he caught up and hovered again. The cycle repeated as we went...

Drivers paying occupational accident insurance premiums was common in the fleet owner relationships we had.

Yes, straight trucks are sometimes offered relocation pay, but I do not think it happens as often as with E and ER units. The last time relocation pay was offered to us the rate was $0.70 per mile to move from Denver to Los Angeles. Normally, we would decline such an offer and wait for freight...

We have a friend who retired from trucking after doing it all his adult life. After two years, he could stand retirement no more. He bought a rig and went back on the road. We are preparing for retirement because we know our health will not last forever, but if you love the life and work, why...