By Sean M. Lyden - Staff Weriter
Posted Apr 16th 2018 10:37AM
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As a fleet owner, you want to keep your trucks rolling and making money for you and your drivers—and not sitting on the side of the road or in the shop.
But, as your fleet grows, it can be challenging to keep track of maintenance schedules and repairs, especially with trucks spread out across the country. And if you or your drivers don't stay on top of the maintenance and repairs when they're needed, you'll be dealing with unplanned downtime...
We are progressing towards our new truck and spent several hours at Bolt looking at sleepers being built, the room in the sleepers, and what is possible in our next sleeper.
Securing a load will have different requirements depending on the load to be secured, type of vehicle and even some very specific rules for securing certain loads.
Not knowing how things are going to be when you get out on the road is something a lot of people question. I want to share my personal experience of how it was coming into expediting with virtually no experience and some of the challenges I faced as an individual as well as team driving with my spouse.
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