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No one is going to fight your battles for you. It takes time, effort and money to bring a civil case against someone but unless someone goes first, there is no safe way to deal with the issue in public. Once a case becomes an item of public record, it can be talked about in a careful manner to...

I have looked into this further and found nothing that counters what you say above. A speeding ticket issued without an inspection form would not count as CSA points. All information reported to CSA is through MCMIS. The ticket will of course show up on your MVR.

We have reached the point in a thread like this where FedEx critics are about to rise, as they do whenever FedEx gets negative press or something changes within the company. To save them the trouble, allow me to offer this. Notwithstanding the fact that the package was found and was not...

As Leo said, space conservation is one benefit, as is picking up instantly where you left off. Diane and I have his and her Kindles and the paper books are rapidly disappearing from our truck. A good-size cabinet that used to hold books will be nearly empty after we get home for Christmas. It...

I am a Kindle enthusiast too. No book I have downloaded to my Kindle has been removed. In addition to downloading a book directly to your Kindle, you can download it to your computer and then plug your Kindle into the computer USB port and transfer the book to the Kindle. If a book ever did...

If that was the case, a FedEx spokesperson would not have commented. Turtle said it well: " Much ado about not much, really." I was once a seasonal worker at UPS when I was a college student. This was before the modern era and the sorter (me) had to memorize a bunch of zip codes that...

You might want to read again what I said. I said that it sometimes happens that dispatch calls fleet owners for help in getting loads covered. I did not say that fleet owners made Diane and me take the loads. In fact, they did not. Your experience with your fleet owner may be different. I'm...

melanieanne is not wrong, but she is not entirely right either. Diane and I drove fleet owner trucks for three years before buying a truck of our own. It sometimes happened that we declined a load offer and the fleet owners called us about the load because dispatch called them. But in our...

OK. I read the info and cannot point to information that says otherwise, but it seems counter-intuitive that something like a speeding ticket would not include CSA points. In the interest of clarification, answer me this, please: Say you happen to drive through a small town and miss the speed...

Have you seen it too? 1. The repeat load offers that we complained about a while ago seem to have stopped. Now we see an offer once and if it is declined, we don't see it again unless the pay is bumped. 2. The new crop of dispatchers that were brought in several months ago seem to have hung...

It will take more than a healthy dose of ex-lax to move that feast through. Thanks for the chuckle. Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Moot!

I would consider it very unfair if events developed as you describe above. Let me cite a real-world example. Diane and I were once in Phoenix at the Flying J with a bunch of other expediters. One team we knew well. They were from Florida and dearly wanted to get home for a reason they felt was...

We are under load on an 1,800 mile run this Thanksgiving Day.

Here's one. Check it out. Click on the truck photo to get to the info or the "New Trucks" button. The web site seems to be a little buggy but a 2009 Cascadia is there. Click around a bit if you have to to find it. ONLY 20,460 LBS! -...

A valid point. There are the rules and then there are situations that can be avoided by making certain accomodations.

Sadly, not every scale cop gets it right. Nor does every mechanic that does DOT inspections. Looking at the illustrations here, rear upper body marking (Figure 8, item 9) is clearly required for semi trailers. No such marking is shown on the illustrations for straight trucks (Figures 2-6). I...

Team or solo?

Truer words were never spoken!

Actually, I can say with all certainty that it would not have happened to me. While it can happen to anyone that a lamp seen working during a pre-trip can stop working while you are driving, it would not happen to me that it would happen a second time. If I got cited for a defective lamp and...

It's easy to form beliefs about dispatch and support them with selective memory. Drivers are fond of saying how the guaranteed way to get dispatched is to start a load of laundry, sit down in a nice restaurant or book a hotel room for the weekend. In fact, many have been offered loads after...