50% legal??? :-0 You mean the good, old days! When we could actually make money in ths job! I remember those days, when there was more freight than drivers could handle. It used to be alot more fun back then too. Or am I just remembering the good and forgeting the bad?

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Still looking for the white unicorn!!!
(that local job that pays by the hour and OT after 40 hrs) If you have seen one anywhere between Akron, Cleveland, or Youngstown, please let me know!

If you are gonna be a bear, BE A GRIZZLY!!!

What about "Running 100% Illegal"?

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A Patriot's Dream Come True.......Beauty, Brains, And Conservative......

Obama and Company: Step aside and let the adults take Charge.......Playtime is over.....

Now that's a sweet truck!

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And this road goes on forever
I've been traveling all my life
I've seen the rain I've felt the thunder
But it never changed my mind
I'm going back to Carolina

611 miles driven
10.25 hrs logged (18 hrs)
$207.74 earned
I delivered to Chicago, took 3.5 hrs to unload, then I had to hurry up to make my p/u in Manteno, IL.
What a crappy little town! Every where I looked it was no trucks allowed! Couldnt get a bite to eat or even find a bathroom! Once again, we want your freight but get out of our town as soon as you are empty or loaded.
Anyway, get to the shipper with 1/2 tank of fuel in the reefer, it is a live load, and this minimun wage rent-a-cop whose only joy in life to to screw with a trucker tells me I cant get loaded b/c I dont have enough fuel! No point in having an intelligent conversation with an unarmed individual, so I drive 30 mins to the nearest fuel stop, put 11 gallons in the damn trailer and drive 30 mins back to the shipper. Needless to say, I am all yakked off!
Then I find out the customer is pissed at me b/c the load was ready 24 hrs ago but my company (arent they awesome?) didnt have a trl dropped there to pre-load. I asked the girl if she needed the phone # for customer service b/c there was nothing I could do about it! I figured since the load was ready 24 hrs earlier that I would get loaded quickly? WRONG! 90 mins before they even put the dock plate in the truck and 2 hrs later, I was finally loaded! (3.5 hrs to load 38 pallets that was already staged 10' from the dock door, and we wonder why Unions are called slow and lazy!)
Now I have a choice to make, my day started at 0700, meaning at 2100 I have to shut down and take 10, but if I do that I will be late for my delivery appt. and will lose my next load (1500 mile run to Logan UT) and $500 and probably be stuck in Fulton, MO till Monday morning. So in keeping with the theme of the experiment, I said screw it and ran the damn load!
I made it to Fulton, MO around 0200, got a few hrs of sleep and managed to deliver on time, in spite of the rules! Now I just have to get these people at Dollar General to get me unloaded in the next 4 hrs or all my hard work will be for nothing as I wont make it to my p/u on time. Isnt trucking great???

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Still looking for the white unicorn!!!
(that local job that pays by the hour and OT after 40 hrs) If you have seen one anywhere between Akron, Cleveland, or Youngstown, please let me know!

If you are gonna be a bear, BE A GRIZZLY!!!

village of manteno totally blows! swift actually has a terminal over there. why in the HELL would any company bother putting a terminal within a hostile town? i went through there once and got greeted on the CB by a local cop saying, "all truckers do what you need to do, and then get the hell outta here!" i wonder how much jerry is shelling out to the local politicians in order to keep operations rolling over there.

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I am soooo glad I don't have HOS problems. I run it legal and get paid hourly for everything that slows me down.

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Fun Facts.
1. A GPS is only a tool, not a tour guide.
2. Starter companies all suck, that's why they have openings.
3. The worst examples are the ones people remember
4. Listening to talk radio all day will remove your ability to reason in regards to politics.

I have been running pretty hot so I decided to chill out for awhile.
258 miles driven
7 hrs logged (12 actual)
I manged to get unloaded fairly quickly at Dollar General this morning! (3 hrs) And the lumper charges were put on account! I didnt have to pay! Why cant they all do it like that???
I left Fulton and made it to my p/u 1 hr early so they made me wait. No big deal, I got my paperwork caught up. Finally loaded after 2 hrs and I'm headed to Logan, Utah (north of Salt Lake City).
I dont deliver till 0100 on the 20th which gives me 84 hrs to drive 1395 miles. I figure the trip will take 25 hrs of driving and 2 rest breaks, and 2 stops for fuel/shower. Thats about 47, call it 48 hrs minimum transit time. I think I can make it. So if anyone has any ideas for something to do or something to see between St. Charles, MO and Logan, UT, please let me know! Maybe a really good restaurant or tourist attraction that would help me kill some time.

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Still looking for the white unicorn!!!
(that local job that pays by the hour and OT after 40 hrs) If you have seen one anywhere between Akron, Cleveland, or Youngstown, please let me know!

If you are gonna be a bear, BE A GRIZZLY!!!

if you're gonna be jamming along i-25, i suggest taking a break and eating a kickass cinnamon roll at johnson's corner in loveland, co. it's off of exit 254. better leave room for that roll, though. it's a meal all by itself!

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Yeah glad ur back dave run the way you have to and make the money you need to. Tried to be legal for the first month of my new company didn't work so back to runnin the way I used to. May not be 100% percent legal but I make money.

Just CYA..........Smokie knows all of our cheats.....

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A Patriot's Dream Come True.......Beauty, Brains, And Conservative......

Obama and Company: Step aside and let the adults take Charge.......Playtime is over.....