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Glacial Acetic Acid

I've had that before.

Took a Pepto Bismal and was feeling fine shortly after.

:lol:

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Originally Posted by ironeagle2006

Hey Rev at least Steve is still running OTR instead of sitting in the ORIFICE SPONGING OF THE BACKS OF OTHERS LIKE YOU.

Huh? Where do you come up with this drivel?

From you. You are the one who went from Running OTR pulling HHG to working in the OFFICE even going so far as thinking about putting someone in your truck. And Yes I did pull quite a few loads of Pepto Bismal.

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Originally Posted by ironeagle2006

From you. You are the one who went from Running OTR pulling HHG to working in the OFFICE even going so far as thinking about putting someone in your truck.

HUH? Show the proof. :roll:

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And Yes I did pull quite a few loads of Pepto Bismal.

HUH?

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Originally Posted by mike3fan

ever haul Glacial Acetic Acid ?

None of my business, but wondering STeve, were none of those loads from where you were sitting, Albuerquerqe, to Denver good enough payers? I know one was paying 830.00, I called on it, for 406 miles. Or is it that hard to get something from there to home? Like said, easy for us to judge your judgement. It looked like there was lots more freight going east than N. Mex. ? Safe travels

By the way, are you using the Canadian version of the Atlas? It's only 500 miles

Uh,I thought you were in Albuquerque. I don't care if I spelled that right either. :lol: From Albuquerque,Nm to St. Louis,Mo it is 1030 miles.

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Just playing Devils advocate here. This is all based on the person being able to book a load going back to Canada

yes.

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the same place

Not necessarily. Toronto, Oshawa, Kingston, Trenton....any of those would do. East Toronto would be ~130 mile DH. The others would be less.

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3 times a week?

You don't have to take all 50 you greedy bugger. They would be there whenever you needed them.

I was very lucky to move 5 loads of steel from PA to Oshawa from mid Dec to mid Jan. Plus I took a load out of one of the ports. 6 loads in a month was all I found that met my criteria. There are LOTS of loads....but I don't pull for under $2 so that eliminates most of them.

It would be a way for someone to show you the ropes on getting in and out of Canada. ACE manifests, customs invoices, PAPS, PARS...the whole deal.

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Originally Posted by SteveBooth

I've tried going from one load to another and before I started doing this I was an arm chair dispatcher like a lot of other people and yes, it sounds simple BUT IT'S NOT. It sounds good on paper but it just doesn't work.

By the time you find another load, do the paperwork because your not setup with them and get to the load point, your way out of hours. I stop driving at 3pm and am out of hours and when I try to load again it's like 6 to 9pm when I'm done and I am absolutely dead.

Then you leave the place and try to find a place to park for the night and there's nothing around and the closest truck stop is 50 miles away and you know there won't be any spots.

So right about now your looking for that bottle of Midol and ready to kill anyone who even thinks about cutting in front of you.

Your squirming around in your seat because you literally sweat your ass off and it feels like someone is sticking your azz with needles.

So you find a place on a ramp or a rest area and you spend the next hour trying to clean yourself off with baby wipes, paper towels, bottled water over your trash barrel with soap and anything else you can think of. You try and put clean underware on but end up just tearing it off and throwing it away because it became part of you hours ago.

You also realize that your hands will not appear clean for 3 days as the dye from the gloves has permanently marked your skin.

So now you can relax and heat up some of your emergency crapola you have under your bunk but what you really want is to gorge yourself until your STUPID and the biggest buffet in the world.

You pick up your rate agreement and notice that you now have 3 days to drive 2,200 miles. Why, because the broker or shipper thinks because you picked up the load today you can drive 600 miles. The Hell with your internal schedule and what happened before you showed up.

So in the end, you really haven't gained anything by picking up that load after dropping off in the same day. The only thing you've gained is a butt load of problems.

Some people can do it. Myself, I would rather drop the load off, drive the 50 to 75 miles to a truck stop, shower, fuel up then sit in my bunk and arrange the next load for the morning.

It's really the paper work that drags you down. It's always 10 to 20 pages of crap, insurance companies needing to be involved and fax fax fax fax fax. It's like, give me the freaking address and I'll do the paper work over the next 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!

You could be a bedbugger if you run like that. Seriously, HHG wasn't no joke when you were in it to win it.

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Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

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Originally Posted by ironeagle2006

Hey Rev at least Steve is still running OTR instead of sitting in the ORIFICE SPONGING OF THE BACKS OF OTHERS LIKE YOU.

Huh? Where do you come up with this drivel?

Here...

Well, I did it. After 9 months this year of sitting around way too much waiting for loads, hardly ever getting off time (I had a grand total of about three weeks away from the truck for the entire year when I made my decision), and revenue that just wasn't there, I finally decided to pack it up and give up OTR driving.

And it couldn't have come at a better time.

I got in with one of our local branches (Wausau, WI), and will be running regional/intrastate/local for them. BUT, they have bigger plans for me in the future. As soon as I get a competent labor crew together, I'll start doing office moves, which are beginning to become a HUGE thing in this area. I'll be in a supervisory position when I'm doing that, and will be earning an hourly profit off of each of the guys in my crew. Eventually, I'll possibly end up taking over our Greenville, WI branch, as the head of the Wausau branch is fed up with the management there (Greenville is an extension of Wausau). I'd also eventaully end up putting a driver into my truck, at which point, I'd be home every night.

Why I didn't do this sooner is beyond me, but I'm sure glad I did it when I did.

SteveBooth wrote:
Yup, doesn't get any better than this.

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Originally Posted by Teal 95 KW

...met up with bandit and his girlfriend and we rolled west together....and, im spent

And we drag raced...again :wink:

Man, we sang them songs to Full House, Family matters, Dukes of Hazard, etc unil someone on the CB (more or less) told us to shut up.

We run hard, at all hours of the night (lights on or off)