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    spendthrift wants the job

    It's not from CBS, the television network, which is rather liberal, it's from CNS (Cybercast News Service), which is, in fact, most definitely a bastion of conservatism and the politically active religious right. They present the news in their own way in their own slant. The only difference...
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    cold weather and deisel

    Most vehicles come equipped with a fuel preheater which should allow trouble free operation to 14 degrees F with non-winterized fuel, and down to -4 with winterized fuel. Below that, and it gets dicey without added anti gel, and since after-market anti gels are also water dispersants, it can get...
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    Tolls

    I like it because I don't have to fiddle with cash, especially coins, while approaching the toll booth. I try to make sure I've always got a $20 on me to cover my in and out of Canada, but other than that I don't usually carry any cash at all.
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    Looks like McPain in FL

    Fred Thompson just laid an egg, didn't he? I, too, thought he'd make a good president, until his judgment went haywire when he meakly sneaked into the race far too late. Indecision does not bode well for that job. Worst thing he ever did was visit that haywire factory. He's been, well, haywire...
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    Looks like McPain in FL

    Underlined and in bold lettering? I was over the top about the name calling, but did so to make the point, is all. In the Muslim world, Hussein is about as common as David. There was a really funny Bugs Bunny cartoon, from, like, the 1950's, maybe earlier, that they won't play on TV anymore...
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    Looks like McPain in FL

    David, I was right there with you, sort of, up until you started with the Barack Hussein Obama thing. That's not his name. If you want to make an intelligent, impassioned plea, it makes no sense to toss intelligence and credibility out the window with name calling. Truly. Also, "...please turn...
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    Tires: Nitrogen vs. Air

    Smoother ride, stable inflation, better fuel economy, longer tread wear. Nitrogen is used in tires ranging from bicycles to NASCAR to big trucks and little trucks, to soccer mommy vans and expedited cargo vans. Just don't pay more than about $5 a tire for a cargo van. More than that and they're...
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    Tolls

    EZPASS and IPASS are interchangeable, and have been for, what, a couple of years now, I think. Used to be you had to have both, but now doesn't matter. Wherever one is accepted, so is the other one.
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    Con Way Now

    Yes, Panther bought Con-Way NOW. The truck you saw may have had the Con-Way NOW lettering on the box, but almost certainly didn't have the Con-Way NOW DOT numbers on the door. I saw a straight truck a couple of months ago that had the old lettering still on the box, and Panther's numbers on the...
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    spendthrift wants the job

    The original article's underlying point was about gay bashing, and they used Clinton's earmarks to illustrate it. Now, this article is a "Bash Butts" article, using a Clinton earmark as justification. Hillary's reckless spending is so blatant that the use of a particular agenda to illustrate is...
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    The "R Word", Going Green, Fuel Costs & Expediting

    Get out those hard hats, folks! The sky is a heavy thing.
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    Panther Macro 8 being changed?

    Uhm, yeah. Click here for the gory details I will be sending an e-mail to the fine folks at Panther regarding all this, just in case they don't read these boards. :D
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    The "R Word", Going Green, Fuel Costs & Expediting

    It's not. Right now we have the top economists saying a recession is probably coming, if we're not already in one. Probably? If? Nothing like a firm commitment from the experts. Either it's coming or it ain't, and if we're in one already, they should know it already. Every time we've had a...
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    spendthrift wants the job

    That's a pretty weak article, with an agenda of its own. It's more of a gay bashing disguised as Clinton bashing. It compares her earmarks to other presidential candidates, in numbers of earmarks, to illustrate the point of just how wildly she spends. That should be bad enough but it comes...
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    Fuel prices and the writers strike

    If you look at the fuel prices here as viewed within a fishbowl, then yeah, we are exempt from the high price of price per gallon. But it's not that simple. As has been stated, look at the base price. We pay the same for fuel here as they do everywhere else (it's a world market) with the...
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    Fuel prices and the writers strike

    A trucker's strike? Yeah, that sounds great. But hey, wait, you know, before we try and tackle something that difficult, let's do something easy, sort of to get warmed up. Let's get all the Wal Mart employees unionized. If you can do that, they you've got at least a gossamer's filament of hope...
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    Load Or No Load

    It's really not like that. Before they send the load offer via the QC the make you "aware" on the load, meaning, they put you on the load in the computer. They do that to prevent another dispatcher from offering the same load to someone else at the same time, which could result in, among other...
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    Old posts

    Taking pictures or listening to old music is a solitary activity. It may or may not be enjoyable to those you force (or dupe) into viewing those pictures, or made to listen to the old music just because you find it enjoyable. You mean like the one that said, "Not a good idea to bring back old...
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    Tolls

    If you get a run from Maine to Virginia, it'll be a dozen or more tolls. Why not use one field per trip, and plug in the total tolls for that trip?
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    San Diego

    Of course there are. Not everyone, I'm sure, as some people have jobs where they must be on their feet all day, but a lot of them sit.
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