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Is there anybody going to be in Laredo Monday 10/10? I have a drop there at 1000 and will be heading to the TA.

There was a big tire fire at the Kingdom City, MO Petro shop today. The tire fire started outside the shop, caught one wall on fire and a storage trailer that was parked next to the tires. I have photos but do not know how to upload them to EO. If someone wants to PM an email address I can...

I learned a couple of days ago that when we are put on hold by our carrier the call continues to record. I just assumed that when on hold and I am talking to my wife that we are having a private conversation. Not so, everything you say is being recorded and when they have to go back through the...

How do you market yourself and your services to brokers and agents? I know Landstar BCO's do this and so should anyone running on their own authority that work with brokers. (I think this will be of interest to those of us that wait for the beep and our carrier to find us a load.)

I received an email (spam) from Panther today offering $1000 sign on bonus for a van. It says it is only for the next 30 days, so all you van guys call right away.

Does anyone know how to find a dentist while on the road? I am going to try the Iowa 80 if I can make it there during business hours. If not I need to find one that will take me Thursday or Friday. I have a crown on a post on my front tooth that came out and I need to have it re cemented. No...

There have been several threads in the General forum about the FedEx flat rate program. I've noticed that with a few exceptions no one else is posting there numbers or there rate per mile all miles. No one from Express 1, Tri State, Load 1, Bolt, All State Express or JD Clark has said anything...

The A Team’s Phil Madsen recently mentioned in some of his posts that there are flat rate trucks in the FedEx Custom Critical fleet. We became interested in knowing if there was a flat rate program for straight trucks and if so to learn more about it. It turned out there is and I posted about it...

Last night, between the toll booth and tunnel on I95 south in Baltimore we were pulled over for a Level 1 roadside DOT inspection. (We passed of course):cool: When the officer asked for our log books I told him that we were using electronic logs. He smiled and said, "Great". He made no attempt...

0400 on May 1st. Am I the only one awake? Flying J, Blacksburg, SC

How much of your time is spent on operating under your own authority? I'm not talking about the driving part, I'm talking about the time you spend finding a load, getting set up with the customer, sending out bills, collecting past due monies, etc. All the things you would not have to do if you...

Daylight Savings Time starts at 0200 on Sunday, March 13th. Time to set those clocks ahead again and lose an hour of sleep.

Is anyone having problems with their satellite radio? On a run tonight from Iowa to Michigan ours kept giving a message "antenna not detected", than it says "acquiring signal" than goes back to "antenna not detected". Sometimes it works for about 30 seconds. We have an outside antennae on the...

Want to find the current temperature at any airport around the US, Mexico or Canada? Click on this link and roll over the location. CWSU National TAF METAR maps - NOAA NWS

Greg is up to14983 posts. 17 more and he will reach that magic goal of 15,000. Will he make it tonight?

It's the first day of the year. What are you plans for today? I plan to watch a few bowl games, start loading the truck to go back in service on Monday, maybe a trip to Wally World to get some supplies and meat to grill tonight. And update my spread sheets for this year.

We are starting our New Year with $200 on our T Chek card and $300 in our checking account. All bills for January have been paid and everything else we have has been moved to our other accounts. Our goal is to make it through the entire year without having to loan ourselves any money from...

The Giants vs Vikings game has been moved to Detroit's Ford Field on Monday night at 7:20PM ET. Admission is free for anyone wanting to attend. Source: Yahoo Sports

I have been reading in other threads about fees that carriers are charging their O/O's. I was not aware of these types of fees as I have only contracted with FedEx CC and I am only familiar with there charges. The only deductions FedEx CC has taken from my settlement are a QC fee, work...

Does anyone know of a place we can park in Las Vegas near the strip? It looks like we will be here all weekend and we want to go and walk around the area.