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Hawk, I don't think it's that simplistic at Panther. I do know that the suggestions put forth from the Council are appreciated and listened to by the company heads. Proof of that is the fact that many (well, a few, anyway, the easy ones, at least) of the suggestions have been implemented, and...

13 straight weeks of inventory surplus, with each week being a larger percentage surplus than the one before, and yet the price of crude keeps rising. Yeah, speculators are keeping the price up. They're keeping up to the point where it looks like there may even be a bubble going on here. Not...

I hope I don't come off sounding critical or unappreciative of the Driver Council. Far from it. I'm just frustrated that these people are ready, willing and able, yet Panther doesn't see the need to utilize them more fully.

Leo, ultimately, no, it doesn't matter what they call the boards. They could have five Kentucky boards and call them KY-1 through KY-5, as far as that goes. What matters is they have the boards properly defined, based on freight movement and common sense, and with detailed input from drivers...

When you go off about the oil profits, before you do, take a close look at the percentage of profit they make. It would be one thing if they make a bazillion dollars profit on 10%, and then suddenly made 2 bazillion on a 20% margin, but they don't. Their margin stays the same. When they have...

They had the opportunity to do just that, but they didn't even solicit feedback from drivers on the implementation of these things. They just did it, then figured we'll patch it up when we get feedback from everyone. That's bad enough, as they had the perfect opportunity to prevent a lot of the...

The pic in your sig just reminds me of a penguin. :)

Just remember, for every damn stupid American there's a clueless Canadian because their brains have been utterly occupied with ways to keep from freezing, and learning real stuff takes a back seat. :) We separate stats of color (and colour, for you French-influenced folk) for the very reason...

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I'm a Reds fan, but more than that I'm a baseball fan. I've seen many more Minor League and Independent League games than I have MLB games. The Major Leagues is The Show, it's all about the Stars. The Minor Leagues is all about the game. One of my favorite places to watch baseball is in...

Greg pretty much nailed it. Is America ready for a black president? Probably not, because we have to ask the question. If you look around the world, race relations are the worse in areas where integration has been forced upon the population. America is not unique in its problems with the...

Leo, sorry, but that's simply not true. It may, hopefully, be true soon with these new boards, but it hasn't been true in the past with the boards. (For one, Panther never had boards, remember?) The computer would suggest going to Toledo because it thought there were only 2 trucks there, and the...

Baseball is, actually, a lot like Hollywood, in the same sense that both are the entertainment business. But overpaid? Overpaid in relation to what? To what you and I make at our jobs? Is Tom Cruise overpaid because he makes $20 million for a movie that grosses $240 million? Is an author...

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They? Who is they? You've got two "they"s that both refer to the subject of the first sentence, namely, Panther dispatchers. Dispatchers dispatch loads that someone else has booked. The loads are booked by Customer Service Reps (CSR's) who deal directly with the customers. I can only assume...

I'm an excellent driver. Yeah. Dad lets me drive slow on the driveway every Saturday. Yeah. Of course I don't have my underwear. I'm definitely not wearing my underwear. Have to get to K-Mart. Uh oh, fifteen minutes to Judge Wapner.

Worked for me, but it's mainly a wasted click. Someone got hooked up with a bad owner and they want to blame Panther for not stepping up on the driver's behalf. There are several replies, all from people who think like employees, and think that Panther, rather than their fleet owner, is their...

Apparently there are some irregularities with the Tennessee Department Of Safety's CDL License Center and the way they have been issuing CDL's. The TDOS office there is a part-time office, operating 3 days a week. The US Attorney's office has stated that Swift is not the target of the...

One word - Nair

A couple of times I have caught it where the loaded miles via the QC and the Open Payables was the same, but less than the miles listed on the Shipment Detail. Both times the Shipment Detail mileage was the same mileage as the Garmin, or extremely close to it, anyway. One time I caught it...