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No reply yet from Pilot! but I'm not surprised either Have a good night everyone!

I just checked out Pilots web site and they're still advertising that every gal.=1 point which =1 cent and free showers for 50 gals. of fuel. So I wrote them and asked if it was true about the 175 gals. and told them I wanted to hear from them personaly before I posted my feelings about Pilot...

During my short time with DMW out of Nashville, Tn. they were talking about every driver having nextel phones in the near future(at that time) instead of having a QC the wife and I at first thought this would be great until we heard of the lousy service Nextel had. We were told that Nextel was...

RE: Homeland Security asks Truckers to help find m So if I start watching for this person will this be considered on duty not driving or will I have to be off duty?

Well what do you do when you arrive at the shippers dock to find that you have to load the truck and theres been no mention of hand loading compensation and the shipper says something to the effect of....well every other driver loads their own truck! A quick call to the dispatcher gets....Oh...

But jobs in Mexico are doing ok!x(

Hi Joel! I'm happy to see that CTX has realized what ran so many drivers away! I was with CTX for about 2 1/2 years and I must say that for the most part I liked most of the dispatchers, some had come and gone and some remained, when I cancelled my contract with CTX I took the time and called...

I want to thank JFK1954 for starting this subject! It's one of those things that I missed or forgot about! I've been noticing that my International has been getting a little bit louder lately and maybe even a slight power loss, I just couldn't put my finger on what was happening, at first I...

Leo I may have an answer for you! I was Talking to my wife who's a radiographer (xray tech) Turned truck driver and she said that it was more than likely a delivery vehicle for a nuclear medical lab. transporting radioactive isatopes used in diagnostic medical testing. Most of the time they...

And Remember Big can haul small but Small can't haul big! There's so many times that I'll have a B load in my D unit because theres no vans in the area to take the run.

You were right about the price being a bit low, I went back to the site where I found this info and added up the advertised prices and it came to $3,351.48 plus tax I guess, not to bad of a guess I'm thinking! A family member works at a rv sales and service in La. and told me he'd hook me up at...

I've been back and forth on this subject because I want to be able to stay warm when it's cold out and cool when it's hot but I've heard alot or horror stories about these gensets that cost an arm and a leg. So I've some what decided that I'm going to buy a low profile carrier roof top unit...

SKIN SO SOFT..........is a real good insect repellant too! Just thought I'd throw that in for good measure:D

Last/first carrier They lied,cheated,threatened,talked down to me and acted as though they were taking money out of their back pocket when I requested a advance via comcheck, they even charged me $5.00 above what comcheck charged for each transaction,no direct deposit which meant I could have...

This may sound a little strange but try using some hand cleaner such as Go-Joe, do a test area first! I've used it to clean off road tar and it worked great then just wash it off with soap and water to remove any excess hand cleaner,also works good on prespotting oil and grease stains on...

Well I can't recomend any shop in particular and I'm also in need of a good shop, so keep the posts coming with the good shops and who knows maybe I'll be next to one someday. The reason I'm posting is to let everyone know of a bad/rip off shop and it's located at exit 16 0n I-24 in Ky. Just...

Welcom aboard Leo! We're in a D unit with Landstar and we're treated like business people not just truck drivers, I don't think I could stand going back to some of the other carriers. We'll keep an eye out for you on the road, You made a good move! I'll try and e-mail you with our truck #...

The other day I had my steers rotated and rebalanced, I told the tire shop that I wanted the tires to keep the same forward direction as they had prior to being rotated and that they needed to be broken down and remounted with the outside of the tires becoming the inside on the opposite side of...

This post may be pulled but I can't sit back and say nothing! They lie, cheat and will threaten you! This comes with 2yrs experience! SO RUN....DON'T WALK....RUN!!!!!

Hi Grasshopper! I can't answer your questions but I can give my opinions on a couple of your questions based on my experiences, so here goes! I have a class 8 expediter with a pusher axle capable (max) of around 22k payload but tell my carrier that I'll only go up to 18k just because I...