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Just an FYI Both sides of I-75 are reopened as of 1 pm today.

From the Daily Mail A massive motorway pile-up in Germany involving 259 cars has left 60 people injured. The series of accidents happened yesterday near the town of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony when several drivers lost control of their vehicles due to heavy rain and excessive speed...

I read Leo's posts and just got off the phone with someone down there helping out. The American Red Cross is having serious problems right now, they are not saying much but they need some donations to help people out there in Texas. So I figure some of you can throw $50 or so to the Red Cross...

who out there is using electronic on board recorders or electronic logging?

Sorry people but I feel this needs to be in the general forum. The National Conservation, Environment and Energy Independence Act...

Maybe I missed this one but as of tomorrow.... June first, Idleaire is raising prices - Fleet/gold card holders - $2.45 an hour *60 cent increase. Silver card holders - $2.89 an hour Now I would think with the higher fuel prices, they would rather lower the prices for the Fleet/gold card...

I am sitting here watching an amazing thing. There is a schneider truck, pumpkin sitting next to me (truck 38213) and another pumpkin sitting across from me (truck 47713) with a panther truck directly across from me with a parking space in between. Now I know that many of these companies...

GM announced that they will be offering buy outs for every hourly employee that they have to reduce costs. In turn they will replace the workers with non-union workers paid at half the wage. This is a result from the 'biggest loss' that GM posted ($39B)and follows Ford's offer to buy out their...

Trucker slain after talk on CB radio conversation -AP SCIO TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- The Washtenaw County sheriff's department says a 44-year-old man was stabbed to death at a Scio Township truck stop after a conversation on a CB radio led to a confrontation. The department tells The Ann Arbor News...

There has been an explosion and the one of the main pipelines moving crude form Canada to the US has been shut down. Some say this is one fifth of our supply of crude. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_on_re_us/oil_pipeline_fire Just imagine how much oil passes through a 34 inch pipeline.

No this is not a logging question I already know I have to log but I had a conversation with another expediter today and brought up the point that someone in congress wanted to redefine what a truck is to help farmers avoid the DOT registration. This led to me asking if they would raise the...

I know that a few may know about this but anyone going to watch Oprah and see (guess what carrier) who plays Santa Claus this year for her "pet" project? I don't know if I am allowed to give out this state secret or not or maybe it is posted already and I missed it?

I was going to post this in the soapbox forum but I feel that it is too important to be there. This issue affects us more than the Mexican Truck issue and part of the tearing our sovereignty apart. I don’t understand where the president and the congress are coming from but being part of an...

Just wanted pass on a recent experienced I had, well I am still having and this is rather long. Yesterday I was sitting in my truck getting ready for a run – back to back runs Saturday and today, yea! – cleaning up the mess I had in the sleeper when I had to almost slam into a Mercedes C...

This may have been covered before but I am going to throw it out there anyway. For fleet owners it is a given, but for the single truck owners I am wondering how many of you are incorporated and if you are, what state did you decide to incorporate in?

I don’t know if you all missed this or are afraid of commenting on stuff like this because of the recent rash of threads that were misinterpreted (and disappeared for some reason) but you know on I-5 there was a major accident with three killed, one kid and two adults. It is sad that we have...

I got in this after noon to hear that all 45,000 employees are on strike and many think it is a well deserved. The number that the idiot radio stations here put out was incorrect, selected plants went out on strike and a few plants are open. I listened to the radio as they were interviewing...

I read the story on EO front page - Officials say overweight trucks putting strain on highway system By The AP and got to say maybe it is time we really look at lowering the weight that trucks can haul. But before you all yell at me, understand that in my state we allow 164,000 lb trucks on...

I got a call just now telling me that if I want to go to a GM plant, I will have to cross a picket line - the UAW has a strike going on. If you remember the '76 strike and live here in the Detroit area, it may be wall to wall coverage of this strike.

Maybe I am getting old or something but I thought there was a post about a million mile van? Well I went to all the trouble of locking up MB's 2.6 million mile car and posted it to find the thread gone! Was there a thread? Am I losing my mind? or should I just be very happy I am on vacation...