diff --git a/SoftLayer/tests/functional_tests.py b/SoftLayer/tests/functional_tests.py
index 025e59ed1..d121f9958 100644
--- a/SoftLayer/tests/functional_tests.py
+++ b/SoftLayer/tests/functional_tests.py
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ def test_no_hostname(self):
             # This test will fail if 'notvalidsoftlayer.com' becomes a thing
             SoftLayer.transports.make_xml_rpc_api_call(
                 'http://notvalidsoftlayer.com', 'getObject')
-        except SoftLayer.SoftLayerAPIError as e:
-            self.assertEqual(e.faultCode, 0)
-            self.assertIn('not known', e.faultString)
-            self.assertIn('not known', e.reason)
+        except SoftLayer.SoftLayerAPIError as ex:
+            self.assertIn('not known', str(ex))
+            self.assertIn('not known', ex.faultString)
+            self.assertEqual(ex.faultCode, 0)
         else:
             self.fail('No Exception Raised')
 
diff --git a/SoftLayer/tests/transport_tests.py b/SoftLayer/tests/transport_tests.py
index 196795dbc..a0e82f558 100644
--- a/SoftLayer/tests/transport_tests.py
+++ b/SoftLayer/tests/transport_tests.py
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 class TestXmlRpcAPICall(testing.TestCase):
 
     def set_up(self):
-        self.send_content = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+        self.response = mock.MagicMock()
+        self.response.content = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <params>
 <param>
  <value>
@@ -26,9 +27,9 @@ def set_up(self):
 </param>
 </params>'''
 
-    @mock.patch('SoftLayer.transports.requests.Session.send')
-    def test_call(self, send):
-        send().content = self.send_content
+    @mock.patch('requests.request')
+    def test_call(self, request):
+        request.return_value = self.response
 
         data = '''<?xml version='1.0'?>
 <methodCall>
@@ -46,33 +47,40 @@ def test_call(self, send):
 '''
         resp = transports.make_xml_rpc_api_call(
             'http://something.com/path/to/resource', 'getObject')
-        args = send.call_args
+        args = request.call_args
         self.assertIsNotNone(args)
         args, kwargs = args
 
-        send.assert_called_with(mock.ANY, proxies=None, timeout=None)
+        request.assert_called_with('POST',
+                                   'http://something.com/path/to/resource',
+                                   headers=None,
+                                   proxies=None,
+                                   data=data,
+                                   timeout=None)
         self.assertEqual(resp, [])
-        self.assertEqual(args[0].body, data)
 
     def test_proxy_without_protocol(self):
         self.assertRaises(
-            SoftLayer.TransportError,
+            SoftLayer.TransportError,  # NOQA
             transports.make_xml_rpc_api_call,
             'http://something.com/path/to/resource',
             'getObject',
             'localhost:3128')
 
-    @mock.patch('SoftLayer.transports.requests.Session.send')
-    def test_valid_proxy(self, send):
-        send().content = self.send_content
+    @mock.patch('requests.request')
+    def test_valid_proxy(self, request):
+        request.return_value = self.response
         transports.make_xml_rpc_api_call(
             'http://something.com/path/to/resource',
             'getObject',
             proxy='http://localhost:3128')
-        send.assert_called_with(
+        request.assert_called_with(
+            'POST',
             mock.ANY,
+            headers=None,
             proxies={'https': 'http://localhost:3128',
                      'http': 'http://localhost:3128'},
+            data=mock.ANY,
             timeout=None)
 
 
diff --git a/SoftLayer/transports.py b/SoftLayer/transports.py
index 364c60f24..44fc9812c 100644
--- a/SoftLayer/transports.py
+++ b/SoftLayer/transports.py
@@ -42,17 +42,16 @@ def make_xml_rpc_api_call(uri, method, args=None, headers=None,
         payload = utils.xmlrpc_client.dumps(tuple(largs),
                                             methodname=method,
                                             allow_none=True)
-        session = requests.Session()
-        req = requests.Request('POST', uri, data=payload,
-                               headers=http_headers).prepare()
         LOGGER.debug("=== REQUEST ===")
         LOGGER.info('POST %s', uri)
-        LOGGER.debug(req.headers)
+        LOGGER.debug(http_headers)
         LOGGER.debug(payload)
 
-        response = session.send(req,
-                                timeout=timeout,
-                                proxies=_proxies_dict(proxy))
+        response = requests.request('POST', uri,
+                                    data=payload,
+                                    headers=http_headers,
+                                    timeout=timeout,
+                                    proxies=_proxies_dict(proxy))
         LOGGER.debug("=== RESPONSE ===")
         LOGGER.debug(response.headers)
         LOGGER.debug(response.content)
@@ -91,14 +90,18 @@ def make_rest_api_call(method, url,
     :param dict http_headers: HTTP headers to use for the request
     :param int timeout: number of seconds to use as a timeout
     """
+    LOGGER.debug("=== REQUEST ===")
     LOGGER.info('%s %s', method, url)
+    LOGGER.debug(http_headers)
     try:
         resp = requests.request(method, url,
                                 headers=http_headers,
                                 timeout=timeout,
                                 proxies=_proxies_dict(proxy))
-        resp.raise_for_status()
+        LOGGER.debug("=== RESPONSE ===")
+        LOGGER.debug(resp.headers)
         LOGGER.debug(resp.content)
+        resp.raise_for_status()
         if url.endswith('.json'):
             return json.loads(resp.content)
         else:
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 8e68e57e4..5abdf9e0d 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ deps =
     hacking
     pylint
 commands =
-    flake8 --max-complexity=36 --statistics \
+    flake8 --max-complexity=36 \
            --ignore=H401,H402,H404,H405 \
            SoftLayer
     pylint SoftLayer \
+           -r n \ # Don't show the long report
            --ignore=tests,testing \
            -d R0903 \ # Too few public methods
            -d R0914 \ # Too many local variables