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Brown sugar hardens because the moisture in the sugar has evaporated. The only solution is to add moisture back into the sugar. There are several ways to do this, all of them temporary, of course, as the moisture will just evaporate again and any unused sugar will harden with back up. But, this...

When you pick up a load on Saturday and it doesn't deliver until Monday, that doesn't automatically qualify it for Layover Pay just because you cannot deliver direct, particularly when it's the backend of a swap. Some loads have layovers in them, some don't. But when you say there wasn't enough...

You turned down a 300 mile run? Really? Why is that a newbie run? I mean, more than likely you aren't gonna get another load out of there on a weekend, not in February, you can pick it up Saturday and casually make your way across the border on Saturday night or Sunday when there's not much of a...

Really? Is that what you see in that article? What I see, as it relates to expediting, is that in order to be a success, there must to a tremendous cooperation between the carrier and the owner/operator. One of the biggest mistakes an owner/operator can make is to think like an employee. For...

Pitchers and catchers have reported. What more can be said?

Well, because I cross into Canada so much, I don't really carry any of those with me anymore. I mean, "Galapagos Gals" isn't a problem, nor is "Stinkpot Musk Mamas", as those babes tend to be on the, uhm, mature side, but it's those hot little "Teenage Mutant Nubile Snappers" and the wide-eyed...

Without a doubt, the hardest thing about expediting is learning to have the patience to sit. Especially for solo drivers. We do, primarily, emergency freight. We move when the freight has to be moved, and until we know that someone needs emergency freight moved, we sit. People who have driven in...

Find out what the fixed costs are first, like truck payment, insurance, plates, QC etc. Then, out of thin air try to yank out how many total miles you think you might drive in a year (miles on the odometer, paid and deadhead). Divide that by the MPG the truck gets to get an approximation of how...

The Sprinter has Commercial license plates issue to me by the Commonwealth of KY, and yet KY doesn't consider me a commercial motor vehicle for the purposes of logging or scaling. They defer verbatim to the FMSCA in that regard. Surely you jest :D One statue defines "commercial vehicle" (257.7...

I'm sure not all mines have them, but the coal mines, at least in KY, have used Potty Boxes for a long time. I saw my first one when I was just a kid.

I'm in a Sprinter, too. But unless I'm placarded, I'm not a commercial vehicle.

I was born in Mayfield, but live in Murray now. I have no idea why Symsonia is a board. We get more loads out of Murray than we do Symsonia. For that matter, we get more loads out of Clinton and Fulton than we do Symsonia. We'll get a handful of loads a year out of Mid-America Machine there in...

I think the oral sex and KY was a reference to K-Y Jelly, which isn't too bad on Melba Toast. Ah, Melba. I remember her well.

Well, just outside Big Bone Lick is a place called Beaver Lick. Kentucky is a very lickable place. There's Mud Lick, and Wolf Lick, and Bee lick, and Deer Lick. If you get tired of all that licking, you can go to Relief to set a spell, or Bachelor's Rest. If you're up for it, there's always...

The ultimate in portable potties - The Potty Box

Ah, a classic. :D

I just looked, and there are a lot of threads in this forum that do not deal with industry problems, trends nor innovation. Besides, peeing in the truck stop parking lot is an industry problem. So what's yer point? Probably to a shark, about the funniest thing there is, is a wounded seal...

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If you're in the market for a new MAS (Mass Airflow Sensor), or are looking for a good excuse to buy one, then a K&N air filter is a good choice, because it will require you to buy a new MAS within weeks. A new Air Mass Sensor is about $375. The K&N air filters tend to not really filter the...