Crude talk, low rates

After a combined 15 years as a truck owner, I started hauling under my own authority four years ago. I’m baffled by the bitterness and coarseness of the language I hear over the CB. I encourage truckers to think about the overall impact of hateful talk versus the power of constructive suggestions.

I’m also dismayed, now that I’m hauling my own products, to find the low per-mile pay in for-hire freight. I know that most full van loads from shippers go for $3,000, but truckers get less than a third of that. History holds constant: It is the middle man who really gets the better deal.

LINN PRUDHOMME | Opelousas, La.

“The only guys making money are the plow operators.”

– Tandem driver Don Lanphere, 51, to Associated Press Dec. 2 after heavy snow buried I-90 in New York for 14 hours.