Do You REALLY Want To Be a PILOT CAR OPERATOR?
Quite often, people considering our business post on the various groups, or call some of us, or email some of us, ... about 40 miles wide between Texas and Colorado or Kansas. Often, oversize loads need escorts just across ... . I believe that truck drivers probably have an easier time getting loads. There are load boards [more...]
Date: 2008-07-21 23:14:06
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Commercial Truck, Tractor-Trailer or Trucking Accidents
Approximately every 16 minutes a person is injured or killed in an accident involving a commercial truck, ... , trucking companies also place many demands on truck drivers to get loads delivered as quickly as possible ... . Most fatal trucking accidents happen in rural areas during the daytime or during the weekend [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 14:06:52
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Merrida Coxwell | Injur...
Does the Ice Road help?
The showing of a realistic documentary about truckers hauling mining equipment across the frozen lakes of Canada could be a two edged sword ... and company drivers are followed through a season where they race to get the most loads possible ... oversize loads and simply keeping the trucks on the road. There are also scenes with petty arguments [more...]
Date: 2008-06-15 20:44:10
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etruck...
Do You REALLY Want To Be a PILOT CAR OPERATOR?
Quite often, people considering our business post on the various groups, or call some of us, or email some of us, ... . The panhandle is only about 40 miles wide between Texas and Colorado or Kansas. Often, oversize loads need ... -the-road) truck drivers. I believe that truck drivers probably have an easier time getting loads [more...]
Date: 2008-07-21 23:14:06
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AllAmericanPilotCarServ...
A “juicy” Silicon Valley startup
For those of you who have moved to Silicon Valley in the past 10 years you might have missed that it is built on a set of former orchards ... in California that get a lot of trucking traffic and can buy partial loads on those trucks and get to market [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 23:41:44
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Scobleizer — Tech geek ...
Someone's Garden Feels Neglected...
A Guest Post from the Garden FairiesWhere’s Carol? It’s been weeks, it seems, since she’s spent any real time out here in the garden.I know! ... this place for us garden fairies.Yeah! And she needs to get that truck over to the mulch store and get a few loads of mulch before the snow flies.Hey, this is a guest post. Did you take some pictures [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 01:27:00
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May Dreams Gardens...
Don’t Take that Load! Part II
I know what you’re thinking, “I have to get home” or “If I’m parked I’m not making money.” You’re right, and we are all guilty of using those reasons to take loads that we shouldn’t take ... /operator or a small trucking company, you must run your business as a business, which starts at turning [more...]
Date: 2008-04-22 09:43:13
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Trucking News » Masslog...
Time Is Money
Most people on this blog understand that time is money…but how much is time worth to you depends on a number of factors ... up on their gas pedals. The American Trucking Association has called for Congress to set ... s the difference between getting the load delivered today or tomorrow. So what? Well…now that I get my loads [more...]
Date: 2008-08-14 19:26:55
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Anti-Strib...
Volkswagen Knows How To Handle A Load [Ad Watch]
What It's Selling: Volkswagen Trucks Where It's At: South America What This Ad Literally Says: "Volkswagen Trucks. For every kind of load." What This Ad Intends To Say: All of your consumer goods get delivered in a truck. We make ... . Jalopnik Snap Judgment: Other than the unintentional innuendo with the mention of "load" and the creamy [more...]
Date: 2008-07-18 19:45:00
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Jalopnik: Obsessed With...
New Milk Jugs Are Efficient, So Quit Whining That They’re Weird
Figuring out ways to make packaging as efficient as possible has been on the minds of many manufacturers ... , getting the most product into one truck load is a big deal, and fitting as much on the shelves ... jugs cut truck shipments of milk to a typical Sam's Club from 4-5 down to 2 per week, and the cardboard [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 20:01:54
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EcoGeek - Clean Technol...
Light, Tunnel, Future
Light, Tunnel, Future November 11, 2008 – 12:26 pm Since my darling wife informed me of the possibility and then the actuality of our move to ... and 2 days between when my wife accepted her job offer and when I loaded the truck and started driving ... packs are getting finished and shipping out. I can’t describe how happy that makes me. I hate [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 17:26:52
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CentralDispatch.com Membership Surpasses 2,000 Dealers
CentralDispatch® (www.CentralDispatch.com), the automotive industry's transportation marketplace, ... who had trucks at the auction with empty space. One of the carriers was able to load the cars up and get them ... depend on one truck line. For me it's particularly good because I do a lot of single vehicle or two [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 07:45:00
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AutoMoby...
a weekend to remember
Aside from the already described encounters at the grocery store and mall, ... . Able to get around quickly. The army is like a 4X4 pick-up truck: can get just about anywhere and drop a load. But the Marines; well, they're of a different caliber all together [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 10:14:05
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place2place...
Yosemite National Park rock slide destroys cabins
Chunks of granite crashed to the Yosemite Valley floor in a cloud of dust Wednesday, ... at about 1,800 cubic yards, or about 180 truck loads, said Vickie Mates, a park spokeswoman ... , get out and find his mother. "It was a really big mess," Trujillo said. "Tents were crushed, trees [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 00:48:52
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Latest News|Daily Local...
5-Year-Old Killed in Accident Involving Tractor-Trailer
Photo by David Hoover, Carthage Press ... competitive trucking companies putting high pressure on their drivers to get loads to the destination ... are often caused by drivers not following Federal trucking regulations. These regulations are designed [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 19:24:42
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Missouri Accident Lawye...
Block Party
I didn't post last night because, for some unknown reason, I was really tired. My head started bobbing about 8:45! So, I did the mature thing ( ... , on to yesterday's activities. I was an industrious do-bee first thing in the morning. I had two loads ... & Jimmie's place for the block party. Getting into the truck felt like old times, with Dick & Pat [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 12:39:00
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Guiler Travels...
Hauling dirt
Hauling dirt June 11th, 2008 My brother is an independent owner operator. The tells me one of the best trucking jobs he gets is hauling dirt. It doesn’t pay as well on a per haul biases but he gets more loads and they are mostly all local, so he ends up making more money. He also likes the idea of being home every night. He does [more...]
Date: 2008-06-11 13:14:07
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starzinc.net...
Proper Advice In Trucks For Beginners
by Chris Channing Heavy duty trucks are a type of vehicle that is meant to get a specific task done ... who are carrying expensive loads or are driving especially expensive trucks. Some trucks can be insured [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 03:26:36
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A Bail-Out For China's Biggest Bank, As Pimco Warns Global Markets Will Get Worse
Perhaps some day the Fed will run out of money. The equivalent is happening in China. The People’s Bank of China managed to put a truck-load of money into US mortgage-backed ... into pieces. Truck drivers and waitresses get to save the world. Douglas A. McIntyre [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 09:44:31
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24/7 Wall St....
People are Making Amazing Soft Creatures
Since I'm in crafty-limbo, and just wanting to get the enormous truck, load it up, and drive-drive-drive, I thought I'd share some greatness that other folks are making. The "toy" section on Etsy [more...]
Date: 2008-07-24 15:44:20
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(Inside A Black Apple)...
What’s Happening on the Texas Border?
... . The car takes off and heads for the border. The drug dealers drive the car or truck into the Rio Grande ... runners’ families- as in- get this load through or else you can kiss your kids goodbye. There’ [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 23:16:03
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On The Scene « FOXNews...
Yosemite National Park rock slide destroys cabins
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Chunks of granite crashed to the Yosemite Valley floor in a cloud of dust Wednesday, ... was estimated at about 1,800 cubic yards, or about 180 truck loads, said Vickie Mates, a park ... and down his back, get out and find his mother. “It was a really big mess,” Trujillo said. “Tents [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 22:10:16
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VMVZ News...
What I learned on my tour of the American Apparel factory today
saramcpherson: There are masseuses on staff, and every single American Apparel employee, from the CEO to the guy that loads the truck, gets a free weekly massage. [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 21:08:41
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Of Vice and Men...
Recommend the Readyness Kit for extra savings and fun during Spooktacular!
Held October 23 through 31st, our Spooktacular event will have lots of spooky content, trivia, ... the truck load of stuff they will get when they buy the kit! Check out the Spooktacular landing page [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 16:47:48
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Movie, Television and P...
Top Ways To Make Money Online Now
After taking my Speech Power class, I dashed to my desktop and read my emails ... or even 1000?! That would give you a truck load of peanuts! There are literally thousands of get paid [more...]
Date: 2008-05-05 15:56:05
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Make Money Online | Mak...
A Truck Driver Is Leaving Michigan!
9.14.08Contact Person: Debra Mantey, 989-551-7493Letter written by a Trucker Driver from Michigan, Randy BishopA Truck Driver is leaving Michigan!!! ... here, we owned homes here, started my trucking business here,...everything in my most cherished ... , to get my loads. So much of the manufacturing of products have left our State. Now, I end up having [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 23:38:00
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Oh Baby That's What I L...
Complaints about Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘Killing Prostitutes”
Lately many insensitive comments from Ross, Brand, Good and Now Clarkson (not surprising really) from the BBC, who get paid loads for this stuff ... an unfair urban myth”. Forklift truck driver Steve Wright was jailed in February for killing five [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 21:20:26
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The London Bicycle Acti...
Aggieland
So even though Will, Taylor and I were all sick we still thought it would be a good idea to load everyone up and go to College Station for the ... to the hotel, getting Will into the bathtub and getting Todd's truck somewhat cleaned out we realized [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 16:11:57
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They're only little onc...
Autoloading Bobcat
How To Get a Mini-Digger into a Truck Without a Ramp Want to load a bobcat onto a truck and you don't have a ramp? Here's how you do it. Watch video via [more...]
Date: 2008-05-16 17:49:46
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Blame It On The Voices...
Caterpillar 797B robotic haul truck
Mining equipment giant Caterpillar want to automate their haul trucks and they recently struck a deal with Carnegie Mellon University's Tony Stentz ... . A single Caterpillar 797B truck can haul over 300-tonnes of material on a single load. A single tire for this truck is worth over $40,000. Just so that you get a good idea of how massive these vehicles [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 08:38:37
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Artificial Intelligence...
Who gets paid? * USA - If a truck broker goes bankrupt?
"Obtaining payment from brokers for shipments transportes in insterstate commerce" Applicable statutes under Title 49, U.S ... in 30 years. Here's the important stuff from the CFR 49, the bible of the trucking industry. The broker ... owed on brokered loads. The law does require that brokers be licensed and maintain surety bonds [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 12:15:00
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trucks world news...
Phase 4 AAR
All the household goods were delivered on Tuesday.We had spent the night at a hotel in town. We got up early to get some muffins, coffee, sodas, etc ... Bauer calls the moving company. The movers are loading the truck and we are told not to expect them soon.0816: I begin to wander around.0900: I stop wandering when the movers arrive with 4 crates [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 17:05:00
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The Life and Times of a...
Azazel Jacobs’ GoodTimesKid in BRKLN
Exciting times! Azazel Jacobs’ Momma’s Man has spread through the festival circuit like a deadpan, unexpectedly emotionally resonant virus ( ... himself opposite girlfriend Sara Diaz, was famously shot on 35mm stolen from the truck of a big ... of MySpace video, I haven’t been able to get any of them to load. [more...]
Date: 2008-04-18 15:10:06
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SpoutBlog - A Daily Mov...
Commenter Of The Day: Moving Day Edition [Commenter Of The Day]
There's nothing more enjoyable than getting invited over to a friend's house only to discover a U-Haul van, cheap gloves, boxes, ... not load shit into a truck We were thinking of this today because, as midwestkel suggested, SUV's do serve ... then load up your stuff on that. 4 Smart cars taped together is about the same size as midsize truck [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 22:00:00
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Jalopnik: Obsessed With...
Having trouble getting hired?
It might be because a potential employer's background check is returning false information about you ... of his 18-wheel truck. He had hauled loads for the Mondovi (Wis.) company for only two weeks before being ... and himself. Trucking company J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT) "told me I had excessive complaints [more...]
Date: 2008-06-29 17:27:17
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Three Wise Men...
King of the Road
You know you have made it as a truck when you get to carry the biggest load ever all around the country… [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 04:44:04
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Attuworld.com...
Big Barrel Brew, Part 1
Last week was mostly spent getting ready for the weekend ... . This was the challenge: Grain to Load Grain to be loaded Surprisingly, it didn’t take too long to get it all in the wagon, only about 30ish minutes. The shipping department had the truck delivery [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 00:05:01
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Fat Boy Deluxe...
Keep on Truckin’ with GPS
With higher fuel prices and more stringent shipping demands, more and more truckers are looking to GPS for assistance. In the past, truckers used GPS navigation devices to track loads and map out routes. These days ... , some of their bosses are also looking to get into the act. Trucking companies are buying large quantities of GPS [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 13:40:15
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The GPS Blog ...
Top 5 TV Elections
In honor of the big election finally being over, and the fact that today is the 5th, I present you with my list of Top 5 TV Elections! ... , but the competition to get there was loads of fun. 4. Brandon Walsh & Josh Richland vs ... , leaving Brandon to watch in horror as Josh is killed by an oncoming truck. Moments later it’s announced [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 18:59:25
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RTVW Online...
Ready to Go
Zac had a busy day yesterday with going up the mast and through the boat, reprovisioning and seeing the little town at Port Mathurin ... to get a ride with a few of the customs guys in their truck to load up his jerry cans and haul them, filled [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 03:14:15
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Zac's Blog...
Williamsburg: Revelers Clashed with Police
Brooklyn Vegan reports that all was not rosy on election night ... on. And there are loads of pictures over there. Ryan got off the Bedford L stop at North 7th St ... , possibly so a garbage truck could get through. One reader wrote into Gothamist... We were trying [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 09:30:00
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Only the Blog Knows Bro...
Ralph Nader to Speak Before Half-Dozens Near GOP Convention
Even as we speak, Ralph Nader is counting out the change he'll be needing to purchase a round-trip ticket to Minneapolis for the GOP convention he ... be a really effective strategy for Nader. Especially when the media get a load of the heavy hitters he's got lined up to face down the RNC guests. Like Tito, the guy who runs the sandwich truck over [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 23:14:42
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Indecision2008 | Comed...
daddy n me
Well, I’m on the road truckin’ with my dear daddy!! :) It’s only a short run. . . one night. We tried to get a longer one together, but between schedules and dropped loads and a ton of barriers (welcome to the trucking life!) that never went together. I’m still hoping for a week-long run [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 12:00:16
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Footsteps of Life...
TRUCKERS' LIFE * USA - Trucking's Bad Four Letter Words
"Wait", as in hurry up and wait, is one of the worse four letter words in the trucking industry Ormond Beach,FL,USA -American Chronicle, ... for dispatch to get and give out the loads. Sometimes they have to wait while a trailer [more...]
Date: 2008-09-13 14:54:12
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trucks world news...
Does this exist in the air freight business?
me2 asked: In the trucking industry, as an independent trucker, you can call up a broker and get loads with out being tied to one company. Can you do that in the air freight business [more...]
Date: 2008-10-04 02:34:25
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Air Cargo Blog...
A tale of two legislatures
Don't like what the N.C. General Assembly is doing this summer? At least they're getting things done ... bill allowing longer trailers and some wider loads on state roads. Under the new version,offered ... like the trucking bill. Or maybe it's because Gov. Mike Easley threatened to veto the bill if it included [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 14:48:00
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This Old State...
LDS Church Can’t Hide Behind A Temple
The Mormon church doesn’t like the attention it’s getting in the wake of California’s Prop 8 ... . Gay couples throughout the state were vilified, harassed and subject to dump truck loads of erroneous [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 16:38:23
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Box Turtle Bulletin ...
General Information On Trucks And Equipment
by Chris Channing Heavy duty trucks are a type of vehicle that is meant to get a specific task done ... of technologies coming out to help save the trucking world from a bad reputation, although it could ... insurance can also be obtained for those who are carrying expensive loads or are driving especially [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 04:09:37
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The Automotive Article ...
Iraqi Extremists' New Weapons: 'Flying IED'
Shi'ite extremists in Iraq have added a frightening new weapon their arsenal: ... this week in Baghdad's Sha'ab neighborhood. A truck-turned-crude-rocket-launcher detonated before it could fire off its full, deadly load of munitions. But the four it did get off -- plus the explosion [more...]
Date: 2008-06-05 20:36:15
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Danger Room - Wired Blo...
Words Of Wisdom In Heavy Duty Trucks Explained
by Chris Channing Heavy duty trucks are a type of vehicle that is meant to get a specific task done ... of technologies coming out to help save the trucking world from a bad reputation, although it could ... insurance can also be obtained for those who are carrying expensive loads or are driving especially [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 04:38:05
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ArticlePower.org » » Ab...
