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Just a bit of advice; a lot of times a shipper will not have the proper placard for a hazmat shipment, which means that the company will sometimes ask you to get them and charge back the customer. I had a couple shipments like that the last few weeks and an EO lurker had one that no one else...

I won't say much about the CSA 2010 itself, a lot has been said and a bunch of fellow professional drivers have cried enough about how it will ruin them or how unfair it is. Well too bad, it is here and we have to deal with it. For me it is not about changing my habits or worrying...

I am wondering about the interview process that drivers go through. Does one take a driving test in the truck they are going to be driving with the owner? Does the owner ask you any questions about your past?

Tonight I'm sitting in a near empty truck stop waiting for a manufacture down the road to finish up with their parts to take to the great north east. Last night the place filled up because of the storms going through. I had a truck sitting three spots down and it sounded like they were...

If your straight didn't have to pay the road tax as if it was under 26k lbs, how much would you save or would you save money?

Just wondering about this. How does your company figure the FSC for B units?

OK after a well heated discussion today over the issue of company vs. free loving expediters, I put this question to a number of expediters to see what they think. So now I am creating a thread to ask the same question to see if I get the same answers. First the situation; You are either a...

I was asked this morning about the different ways to figure out the operating cost of a reefer. I explained how I figure against the money I need for my maintenance account and the drive time hours plus 12% of uptime for warm up (cool down) plus the cost of fuel into the tank (not Reefer fuel)...

This week was a busy week but it was one where I stopped to help another ‘expediter’ out. I won’t name the company, it really has to do with the pom pom squad more than anything but here is what happened. I have some work that takes me to an odd place, multiple companies using the...

"Do you need a Class A CDL to tow a truck?" As cryptic as this may sound, the person was asking if I knew if a class A cdl was needed to tow a tractor behind another tractor or behind a tow truck. Anyone know the answer?

You know when you read an article, like the one on EO about inspections, you seem to wonder if you would have any problems in an inspection, I fear them even though I have had three of them (one really was an informal “we are pulling everyone in to explain to them†type of inspection) and I...

OK with the latest OOIDA hos fight, I was talking to a hotshot driver who was wondering about what the old hos was like to run under - you know the one that was in place for 50 years?

This morning as usual I get my clothes, food and other stuff loaded in my truck. I rearrange the clothes and sweep out the back, NOP. But today I figure I would work on the bulk head and pull a couple 10 conductor cables from the front to the back to replace the wiring I threw together. I also...

OK I have been asked a question by a truck driver this morning that I could not answer. As expediters how do we handle the HOS issue? I am not in a larger truck yet, planning on it soon so this is something may need to know and I think a lot of others also wonder. Here is what he is driving...

Ok this is a dumb fuel tax question. I got conflicting information about fuel taxes and the GVW of a truck from my state (great state of denial Michigan). Can someone explain the difference between >10K, 26K and >33K trucks with fuel taxes? Is there a difference or are all trucks covers...

I was going to do this the first time I was back in town but my wife had me running too much before I went back out. Well I took everyone’s advice about how to get this all started the right way and now I am an expediter. I want to thank everyone for their help and comments, both negative and...

OK my decision has been made; I am going into the expediting world as an O/O. it was a tough decision to stop looking for a job in my profession and change careers at my age. I have been unemployed for two years now and there are no jobs in the Detroit area in my profession, Computers. Ford...