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Really? I just threw Clint's name out there because of the hair. I was still focused on depression-era gangsters.

A bit of resemblance to Clint Eastwood, especially the hair.

Beautiful. Nice color combo.

Clyde Barrow?

Oh, that would explain why I do see Cassens quite a lot.

I think it is just the can: http://www.napaonline.com/Catalog/CatalogItemDetail.aspx/Spray-Paint-Can-Filling-Machine-Mixing-Can-16-oz/_/R-MSRB55216000_0006419143

UPS, like LTL, has the benefit of consistent, scheduled routing. For irregular route, for-hire carriers, the challenges of meeting customer demands while remaining compliant are much more difficult. A bus companies can run e-logs without having to change it's operations whatsoever.

Are you sure they're the same ones? ScrapCo is in Rocky mount, VA.

I hear ya. On my previous job I ran a daycab on overnight runs and with multi-stops I wasn't always able to make it to the motel I was familiar with. That can cut you're day short when in someplace like rural West Virginia and you don't have a clue where the next room with truck parking might be. Sucks that you'll have to give up entire runs as a result.

That makes 4 kinds of music but you also have the other 2: Country and Western. I wouldn't have expected to see Zeppelin's 4th in with the Bee Gee's and Alan Jackson but then again, I have it along with Sinatra and Hank Williams.

Funny, I've never seen your trucks until you posted a pic of yours and I saw that one less than a week later. I go past the Cruze plant at least 2-3 nights a week but the only activity I see from I-80 is the shift change if I happen to be passing by around 11:00.

Personally, I think that's direction all companies should be heading. I wouldn't want to pay a driver by the hour that's going to be stopping to trash around a truck stop every 100 miles. If there are two drivers doing the same run, the safer and more productive one should be paid more, or paid the same but working fewer hours. Regardless of how I'm compensated I will divide gross pay by hours worked. If I like the number I don't care how it was calculated. I've been on E-logs for 3 1/2 years and like them but my runs are structured and consistent. I wouldn't want them if I were running OTR. I was always a "pretty much legal" driver myself when running a paper log but sometimes one needs an extra 15-30 minutes to get somewhere and nobody is going to get hurt or killed as a result. As you said productivity will suffer because the driver will be looking to shut down sooner out of fear of going a minute over.

Looks like you have the makings for a tore up Monday if you're not careful with them things. I saw one of your trucks on I-79 nb near Pittsburgh the week before last. Pretty sure it was a Wednesday morning. I know it was 9:30 am because the truck went by as I was bitching to a co-worker about me still being on the road at the gawd awful hour of 9:30 am.

Yep. Couldn't place the unit # style and location but knew I'd seen it before. Found a pic of #2-7xx on another site.

"Saveco" would have a nicer ring to it. No website but according to this info they like heavy equipment. http://www.dexknows.com/business_profiles/scrapco-b207090

Welcome!

Not necessarily....

Thanks. I thought it was the same setup but now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure the pics I'd seen were of short wheelbase tractors.

It happens to the best of us. R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy

I read they also used them on I-90 in PA. Doubles were legal in NY and OH but they had to use this setup for the 45 miles or so in between.

Nice! I never saw the '53. I don't get up that way anymore.

Wow, thanks for doing the research. I used to have a route that put me in Allison Park on Wednesdays and Thursdays. I saw a B model like that once and never saw it again. It passed me going the other way and didn't see where it was from. I also drove past Peebles VFD regularly and never saw it there either.

I believe Reagan was the first President elected in a "0" year that did not die in office. Sumthin' like that.

Happy Birthday! Glad he decided to stick around, the kind of relationship the two of you have is priceless and all too rare.

Save my tax dollars, the answer is YES. So, now what? A driver paid by the mile or load is more likely to speed and/or take shortcuts when doing pre/post trips etc. vs. one who is paid hourly. If carriers don't want to go the hourly pay route they can choose to compensate for all activities such as the inspections, fueling, drop and hook, ALL stops, wait time. Unfortunately that option continues to be widely ignored by the industry. Most drivers on mileage pay get only the mileage pay and intermediate p/u's and deliveries (not all that common in the truckload segment), and minimal pay for delays after 2-3 hours "free time".