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Hi All, After getting on people about driving trucks easy (no jack rabbit starts, easy driving until warmed up, coast to lights as opposed hard braking etc..) paying attention to things (low branches / bridges etc) .....I had a driver get our truck stuck under a bridge.... UGH Anyways the...

No a broker and company out of Maryland... I had tried CEVA but at the time they didn't have anything for box trucks ....Just TT (It was really hard to find people using box truck that DIDN'T want you out on the road for weeks at a time,,,,THAT is why I LIKED what these folks offered...

HI, FWIW , I skimmed the hos regs only to get some background and to know things are complicated and more complicated than they should be or need to be.... The company will be nice and send a rep out to meet us somewhere (me an the driver) to teach us hands on how to do logs (they said it's...

Richmond, VA area No idea where we'd be running just hopefully not too much up in the NE because of traffic / tolls

Rental $70 per day plus 11 cents a mile after 1000 miles (you get a free 1000 miles per week then after that 11 cents per mile). Good question on driver pay....I'm not 100% sure Driver was used to getting $135 per day running Amazon for me ( 10 hour day , 5 stops, 300 miles). I'll probably...

In VA so long as the truck is under CDL airbrakes aren't an issue with a regular license....Don't know about other states and hopefully it won't be an issue when we go state to state

Do big trucks generally strap all pallets ? About the only thing I have regularly strapped (unless I can wedge them in somewhere) when doing UPS air freight are the big TV's if they're loose because it looks bad to have the boxes all fallen over on top of each other especially if they have...

The lease figures out to $70 per day , 1000 "free" miles per week then 11 cents per mile after that but at the start of each new week you get another "free" 1000 miles The trucks I've looked at ( at least the Internationals under CDL) all seem to have air ride / air seats / air brakes. I have...

I have no CDL so the truck I'll get is 26000 or under GVW....The company knows to hold down weight because of the non cdl truck and I told him I prefer not to kill my trucks (although with a rental I could be a little more easy going on weights BUT extra weight probably still hurts in the long...

I'll have to look at the various trucks....I've only experienced my older Internatinal 4700's (noisy , spring ride, no OD ) , 1 GMC Top Kick (I like the step out gas tanks better than the steps out gas tanks on the internationals) , and a rental Penske International truck (NICE...Air ride seat...

I skimmed hours of service and it's seemingly complicated BUT doing "just" 500 miles a day 5 days a week gets you 2500 miles I wondered how the once or twice home a week figured in but then I realized 250 out , drop, then 250 back haul home is 500 for day. Per the company, most runs are...

HI, The trucks I'll be renting / leasing have no sleepers on them so on the road we'd have to spend some $$ on a cheap motel while on the road....I suppose long term if this gig is good we can get a try figuring out a legal sleeper situation but since the contract calls for a 26' box I cannot...

Hi All, I have to lease a truck for a seemingly good long term long distance gig. The rental / leasing company (Enterprise) has 3 basic trucks to choose from 1) International 4300 2) Freightliner M2 3) Hino 268 All lease for the same amount and assuming all are 26' non CDL trucks with...

Hi All, To date, I have only run local (always in state and within 100 or so miles from our shop) BUT the problem is my local runs don't really pay much in terms of profit. I started exploring other avenues and ended up finding a company that offers the following : *Our box trucks do about...

HI, I forgot to mention, Lowes and Amazon work require lift gates ....

Have you considered super singles ? I have toyed with the idea...I hear you get better fuel mileage to boot BUT catch a flat in the rear and you're done on the spot until fixed. Personally due to $$ constraints when I was new I went with the cheap Chinese recaps (yes double whammy cheap BUT...

Hi, XPO has the national contract I believe (it's'how we got it). XPO also does Amazon ...Good for night runs if combined with Lowe's you can run a truck almost 24/7 Only thing about Lowes's is cover your butt with pics and signed statements of a job completed with no damages before you leave...

I run Waze and a GPS simultaneously.... Two brains are better than 1 ;-)

I suppose you could run for multiple carriers if you made their graphics removable (if they make you letter / logo your vehicle). If they don't require you to to pimp out your ride with their stuff I would have separate magnetic signs made for each of the different carriers with their DOT # and...