> One thing many drivers are confused about is the two different ways the
> phrase "per diem" is used.

> Thanks Chris.  That sucks for the students and employees.  The helicopter
> school business is far smaller than the fixed wing training business.  My
> schools were located at Ft Lauderdale airports and FXE had a couple of
> helicopter schools using Robinson R22s.  If you ever hear of some aspiring
> pilot complain about the cost of learning to fly airplanes tell them about
> the cost of flying helicopters, damn, that's expensive.  The worst part is
> there are so many fewer helicopter jobs and the entry requirements for those
> jobs are far higher than fixed wing jobs.  It's a heck of a lot harder to
> fly a chopper than nearly any airplane.
>
> I only recently even heard of Silver State, the school that went kaput.  I
> saw an ad for them in some flying magazine promising a quick path to a
> flying job after school.  I think they had a company flying tourists nea Las
> Vegas or the Grand Canyon.
>
> My schools would try to persuade you to pre-pay for a full program by
> offering a modest discount.  I was "lucky" when I was paying for my flying
> my job at McDonald's didn't pay enough where thar was ever an option.  There
> are a lot of very shady schools in aviation betting that people's natural ...

> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:12:25 -0600, gringo nospam.net> wrote:

>>CCBlack wrote:

>>> Oh great.  Now even my home town is using Gestapo tactics to keep us
>>> from staying comfortable in our cabs.

>

>>>http://video.nbc5i.com/player/?id=210766

>

>>> For Christ sakes this is just ' feel good ' politics.  There's only a
>>> few places in the ENTIRE Dallas/Ft.Worth area that even have idle-air.

>

>>> Jeez

>

>>> Chris

>

>>IdleAire ain't the way to go.  It moves into a truckstop, converts 99%%
>>of the lot to nose-in parking, and in the process cuts the parking
>>spaces by a third.  75 idle aire spots, and hardly ever more than 6 or
>>so actually hooked up.  Lately, when I have a choice, I choose
>>truckstops that do not have idleaire.  Those who have a lot of time on ...

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>> We recently started having some of our tractors fuel at nearby Pilots
>> rather than the fueling service fueling our trucks at the yard. I've

>> given a Pilot rewards or payback card and understand the 1 point per
>> gallon award and the must have 500 points before you can redeem the

>> item, but how much benefit is there when you do redeem all of the

>> For example, frequent flier miles might buy you a ticket on an airplane
>> trip if you have 25-50,000 reward miles. What's 1,000 payback points
>> worth, 20 cents discount on a cup of coffee, a $1 discount on your next
>> purchase over $500? I couldn't find any discounts or reward levels
>> mentioned on the Pilot web site. What kind of rule of thumb do you keep
>> in mind to know what good the points will do for you. None of us at

>> will need to redeem points for a shower since we are not OTR. You know ...