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I would like the public urinators to remember that they are at a truck stop too. Truck stops are NOT open sewers. There is no justification for this behavior. It is wrong. It degrades the quality of life for others that use the space. It degrades our industry. It is a nasty, selfish and...

Paul is right about the risks of provoking a dangerous situation when confronting a stranger about his or her unacceptable behavior. My own disposition is such that tend to run toward a fight instead of away from one. I'm not saying that is a good thing, but it is my nature to get involved. I...

Hybird trucks have been discussed before in the Open Forum. It is interesting to see how fast hybird technology is moving into trucking and how opinions are changing about it. A Previous Thread About Hybirds (note the 2003 date) I do not recall where or when, but not too long ago, I read of...

RV dump stations (Flying J, some other truck stops, RV parks, state parks, some Camping World stores) are a water source, as are the faucets at truck stop fuel islands. At fuel islands, one of us can usually fill the water tanks while the other is fueling, so there is no delay for any drivers...

Cell phones with cameras built into them are increasingly common. I almost never use mine but as a result of this thread have decided to get a little better at it and quicker on the draw, so to speak. Calling in a report is one thing. Doing so with a picture is quite another. Had I been there...

Not much good at this moment in time, though I have said good things about CoPilot in the past. Today, we had a pickup in downtown Baltimore. CoPilot would route us pretty much on any street that we selected. But when we got there, truck weight restrictions were everywhere. CoPilot did us more...

Having used Garmin for a while now, Turtle, if you were to buy a new stand alone GPS unit again, would it be Garmin or something else?

The one piece of essential technology is a cell phone; one with service that provides strong nationwide coverage. GPS and a laptop are not essential but they provide much to make life on the road easier, safer and more profitable. For mobile access to the internet (essential if you have a...

"never" is the wrong word to use. Correct words include "infrequently," "seldom," or "home less than many other expediters go." We do not feel the need to frequently return to our address of record, because we feel as fulfilled and at-home on the road as we do at our residence. In other words...

Reflector and lens ... Yhoo! Hoo! :D

When we ran fleet owner trucks, we did the 60/40 with 100% of the surcharge to the driver and the driver paying fuel, and the 40/60 with 100% of the surcharge to the fleet owner and the fleet owner paying fuel. One fleet owner changed the deal on us from 60/40 to 40/60 so that was a good...

PROJECTOR ELIPSOID SYSTEM... Yhoo! Hoo!:D "Light bulbs" are soooo 20th Century.

Diane and I generally run wherever the freight takes us, as long as the money is right; in other words, 48 states and Canada. In 2007, we had five deliveries in Ohio. That means, had we lived in Ohio, we would have delivered in our home state five times and had an opportunity to go home...

In 2007, we were in service 78% of the time, which equates to 285 days of being available to haul freight or actually hauling it. If memory serves, we had one day last year where we where home, but also in service and waiting for freight. Our home express center (Minneapolis) is pretty good...

Our Volvo came standard with PES low-beam bulbs. I have no idea what PES means but, by golly, we got 'em.:p I can say that night driving is a joy in this truck compared to others we have driven. The headlamps bathe the road in front of you with even light. Fog lamps light the shoulders well...

For some folks, that may be true. There are also some who love the work and would drive forever if they could. Diane and I are among them. We love our life and work on the road and will retire only when age catches up with us and our bodies are no longer capable of doing the work.

I went back and looked up the load. That jogged my memory and I do remember chatting with a couple other drivers in other trucks as we sat and waited our turns at the docks. It was one of those meetings where drivers chat but don't go in depth. If Greg says we showed them the inside of our...

No, Greg, our truck is not CR4633. I also have to ask, how is it that you have met me, but I have never met you? You have mentioned meeting me before, but I have no knowledge of it at all.

This is an interesting product, Scuba. I had not heard of it until you mentioned here. While details are on the VuQube web site, pricing info was not. May I ask what you paid for your system?

It doesn't work that way, ONESTACK. This is not a junior high school where being popular and not telling teacher is all important. We are professional, self-employed expediters who are affected positively or negatively by the professionalism or lack of it of our fellow expediters. I have never...