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I pay myself $.32 per mile, plus things like detention, hand unload, layover, dry run, things like that. The truck gets everything else. All I need to do is drive 80,000 loaded in a year to gross $25,000 take home, and that's not including the assessorials. After my pay comes out, and all the...

95 degrees with 47% humidity is a dew point of 72 degrees. That's a 103 on the Feels Like Meter. Here ya go... http://www.weatherimages.org/data/heatindex.html Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

The best power nap occurs for whatever length of time it takes before you just hit REM sleep. For most people, that's between 90-120 minutes. Anything less than that and it's less effective. For me, I need at least 90 minutes before I awake refreshed and alert. One hour doesn't work. Stages of...

"...of course sometimes I key up the mic so everyone else can hear my wonderful voice,..." Uhm, sorry SuperTrucker, no one gives a rodent's rear end about your wonderful voice. Singing over the CB brands you as self-centered, rude and inconsiderate, A.K.A., a Richard. When one so willfully and...

There are a lot of things about the 07 that I like, the tilt steering wheel being tops on the list. :) I briefly considered trading my 05 in for an 07, and would have gotten a very good deal on the trade in, but what kept nagging at me in the back of my brain was the new engine. New engine...

Unless you are sure you can stay awake and alert, or you are sure that you will have the time to pull over along the way and take an hour nap if needed, refuse the load. No load is worth risking your safety, or the safety of others. High carb snacks will give you a a quick energy hit, but they...

I wholeheartedly agree. Last week I installed the air tabs on the Sprinter. They have to be installed on a stone-cold clean surface. I cleaned the surface where the air tabs would go, then immediately noticed the uber-clean white strip where I had cleaned, the rest of the van being a polite...

RE: Number of Vans out there for FedEx%2C TriState http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alliance Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

69 out of control vehicles may sound like a lot, and it is, but it's not when taken into account of how many vehicles travel that section of road. Interstate highways can comfortably handle about 20,000 vehicles per lane per day. Which means a 4-lane Interstate can handle 80,000, a 6-lane...

I would think that "5 or more skids" would include the "over 10" and "over 20" figures. But, hey, that's just me. Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

This stuff works great. http://www.sparkleauto.com/odor_foggers.html That place is a car detailing supply place, mainly. They carry the entire line of Sprayway products. I use many Sprayway products. The adhesive remover, for example, is great for removing the residue from vinyl lettering, and...

>Does anyone know the effects of adding standard pump air to >tires that are filled with Nitrogen? As in a situation where >you needed to add air but no Nitrogen available. > Yeah, standard pump air has the same effect on inflating tires that nitrogen does, meaning, it'll inflate them. :+...

You posted that under my reply, in response to my message, so I'm not sure if you were addressing me, or not. As I said in the actual "bridge" thread, there is no OMG! Crisis at all. We don't open the newspapers to find a new bridge collapse disaster du jour. Yeah, there are published reports...

That's the way to do it - i.e., leave the starter batteries alone, that way when it's really cold they'll still have as much juice as the cold will allow them to have, and then run everything else off the house bank, using the APU to recharge them and to run high draw stuff like an air...

A million dollars a mile is closer to what it costs to build a 4-lane road. Here's some eye-opening numbers, especially for Boston and New York. :) http://www-pam.usc.edu/volume2/v2i1a3s2.html From the Nov, 2003 annual meeting of the National Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C, the...

Me too, I'm still here. Panther does some things that just drive me crazy. So did Con-Way NOW, just different stuff. Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

You can actually use any inert gas in tires, be it nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, radon, krypton, xenon. I'm sure I'm leaving some out. Air is comprised of about 78% nitrogen, 20% nitrogen, .9% argon, .3% carbon dioxide, and the rest is trace amounts of other gases and water vapor. Argon is...

RE: CONFUSED!! I need to invent some barrel ratchets or something. A ring that fits around the top of the barrel, but won't slide down, and then it would have 3 or 4 straps coming off with e-track fittings on the ends. :) One, two, and four barrels, I have no problems with. It's three on a...