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That is precicely the assumption I am making and the assertion too. Please see my comments in my reply to Cheri about the bridge I will provide, and please give me time to provide it. I am not without support on this. My wife and codriver Diane is learned in the law (worked as an attorney...

A fair comment, but it remains the case that every item listed on the Hazardous Materials Table is HAZMAT, regardless of weight, placards or the kind of vehicle it is placed in. Given your comment, it now falls to me to provide the bridge you seek, that is, to show in the regs exactly why it...

This is actually some pretty dry stuff and I would have thought everyone would have lost interest in the reg-speak long before readers got this deep into the thread. Seeing that at least one reader is continuing to read, I will continue to build my case, but only as time permits. I am deep into...

We try to keep a clean, shiny floor in our truck. To that end, we almost always use our pallet jack to load and unload the truck and prohibit forklifts from entering the truck. But every once in a while, the freight is such that it must be pushed or dragged across the floor. TIP: Keep a spray...

A good month indeed! Congratulations. The best month we had when at FedEx Custom Critical with our CR TVAL unit was $38,000. We made ten truck payments after that month. It was sweet.

We were under load all day yesterday and would have been unable to meet. Nice thought, though. Next time.

I don't know anything about Bolt insulation one way or another but can say that Diane and I are sure glad to have an ARI sleeper these days. We're laying over this weekend in Tucson and Phoenix. Outside temps will range from 100 to 110. The sun will beat down on the sleeper and heat up the...

In Tucson now. Pick up near Phoenix on Monday. Will be passing time in both cities this weekend.

Truck spec porn!

Since we are talking to readers now, and encouraging them to look things up, let me add this. When looking the things up that Turtle recommends, be sure to read the "for purposes of" language. For the purpose of X, a word will be defined one way, but for the purpose of Y, the very same word...

You have made your case. I've made mine. Neither of us believes himself to be mistaken. I'm content to stop here and let readers consider our comments and do whatever additional research they may wish to do. It would take more time than I care to commit to dig through the multiple definitions...

That is incorrect. Please read on. That is also incorrect. Please read on. That is partly correct. Please read on. That is incorrect. Please read on. I'm looking at this from the point of view of a driver who hauls HAZMAT. Let's set up a hypothetical load to illustrate my points and let's...

Looking at the Hazardous Materials Table, I find no listing for "copper sulfate." Nor do I find a listing for it in the Hazardous Substances Table. Where are you finding copper sulfate to be Class 9 HAZMAT?

You might want to take another look at this, Turtle. I do not believe it to be correct. Diane and I have hauled many HAZMAT loads that were correctly flagged as such on the shipping papers but did not require placards. Shipping papers are required with most HAZMAT. Placards may or may not be...

Here is a list of the TA's and Petro's that have fitness rooms. It is nice to see the list grow.

First of all, a good month is one in which you begin it healthy and safe and end it the same way. You do a good job of detailing many of the variables that apply and explaining why it is difficult to make apples-to-apples comparisons among expediters, even if they run with the same carrier. At...

When we built our truck, we did our homework and were well aware that reefer body insulation degrades over time. But does it degrade to zero effectiveness? I don't think so. Planning to keep the truck for ten years or more, we spec'ed extra insulation in all surfaces (floor, ceiling, walls...

Amen, Brother! When we bought our reefer, it met the CARB requirements then in effect and we bought it in good faith with every intention of meeting the standards then in effect. Years later, those arrogant ____________ decide that it is perfectly OK to change the rules retroactively and make...

I know FedEx Custom Critical rejects reefer bodies on straight trucks that are over 10 years old but that was not always the case. I do not know if that is an industry-wide requirement imposed by customers or just an artificial one that FedEx invented. Does Panther have the same requirement, and...

I mention the home-run loads in conjunction with the reefer upgrade-or-not discussion to share that for us, such loads figure into the equation. If we happened to sit for a month on each side of each load, the point would be the same. Working from memory, the $10,000 load went from CT to...