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Can I put things in my truck?
The way it works is that trucking companies that only use giant, 10-car carriers aren’t licensed to ship household goods because there’s no place to put it! The difference, however, is the enclosed ship service that many companies offer. If you’re looking to ship some boxes along with your truck, companies that use enclosed trailers and trucks are licensed to do that. But don’t pack your truck full of boxes if it’s going onto a giant, open truck, because that’s illegal.
The gray area is the trunk. Most truck ship companies allow you to have up to 100 pounds in the trunk only. This means blankets, pillows, maybe some clothes...loose stuff. By putting miscellaneous junk in your trunk, so to speak, you’re not transporting “household goods” but rather just some “stuff” that happens to be in your trunk. This can change, however, if you decide you’d like your stereo to stay in the trunk, because this can be seen as household goods. So no electronics at all in the truck, and you can never have anything in the cab. Loose change and some candy wrappers are okay, but nothing big.
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Truck Carrier CompanyAn truck carrier company is a company that has their own truck carriers and, usually, an entire fleet of them. Whereas truck ship brokers setup the truck shipment between the truck carrier company and the customer, the carrier is the one that actually does the shipping of a truck. Truck carrier companies are often one or two man operations; simply a person with an truck ship truck looking to make a living. There are also truck carrier companies that own many trucks and dispatch out of a central office. These are relatively rare, but they do exist, and their truck carriers can be found across the United States. When an truck ship broker sets up ship for a customer, they’ll call the truck carrier company and find out if there is a truck in the area.
Volt!
awesome news today! today marks the first time that gm has started test drives for the pre-production chevy volt extended range electric car. this comes just one day after the company announced that by october, gm will have 4,000 less salaried executives and other employees (probably taking the advice of smart people for a change). read article...
Interbuildability
how about this! the day after my update on thursday about the congressional initiative to support failing dealerships: the house of representatives passed the bill. this means of course that it now needs to make it through the senate (which is always near impossible) and pass through the president’s approval. read article...
The first 6 months of 2009.. in 500 words or less.
happy july 4th.. err. read article...
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Why do people say, 'I could care less' when they really mean, 'I couldn't care less?'
Don't you *dare* learn a wrong lesson while I'm trying to teach you a right lesson!
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