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In this past week I have talked to several different drivers with different carriers and on different fuel discount programs and everyone is talking about the discounts. We just bought fuel and received a discount of over .80 cents per gallon and others we have talked with have received even...

Hey Kim it was great seeing you at office in Grand Prairie, TX. Really appreciate all of the tips you shared on getting around the Landstar websites! Looking forward to seeing you at BCO days. Enjoy your fishing trip and cannot wait to hear more fish stories and see pictures.

More voices on restart rollback; And a moving encounter off I-395 in Connecticut | Overdrive - Owner Operators Trucking Magazine Scott LeVan says a prayer for Ben It’s a story LeVan, whom regular readers may remember from my story about the sleep apnea situation in the September issue, still...

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How do you track your cash expenses? I use Quicken and enter each cash expense and file the receipt away. This last year I decided to try something new so that I could find my receipts easier and I started assigning them a number. First I started out with a complicated system where the...

December 13th 2014 9 a.m. Eastern If you have not tuned into the Rolling Strong Saturday Health and Wellness call why not??? If you haven't then this could be a fun Saturday to do so.. Road Tested Living founder Tom Kyrk who is also a Rolling Strong Ambassador will be providing his top 10...

Over the years we have heard many good things about BCO Days but never being there we are wondering is it really worth our time? We know it is two and 1/2 days and that is a long time out of the income stream. Can anyone that has been to BCO days help us out here on what to expect and how to...

Sure glad we kept our Windows based computer since very little of Landstar's applications are compatible with a MAC. On our Christmas list is getting a small windows based tablet that will be easier to use then getting out the big clunky windows machine.

When entering the information on the fuel pump when it asks for trailer number we enter the odometer reading. This becomes my "check" number in Quicken for easy reference

Since we are know for always trying to get better fuel mileage here is a tip: Use a fuel book that sits in a cubby hole on the dash or in the door. This book started out for us as a way to keep track of how much fuel money we had loaded on our fuel card and in time it evolved to be much...

From the newsletter "Landstar Safety News" today is the day we can register for BCO days. January 22nd - 23rd - 24th and we were told to ask for the Holiday Inn at Windsor. When I called in I asked to come in a day early on us and that was not a problem. She also said there was plenty room...

Macro 50 does not work for Express Trucks at this time to send in our DVIR Do you email your DVIR in or send them by mail? How often do you send them in? We have some friends that put theirs in an envelope and then send it is every once in while. We decided we would prefer to scan ours in...

Is anyone using the Landstar Online Mobil apps? I also saw the Landstar Phone Registration and I wondered what this is used for?

Is anyone using the Follow Me program to receive emails and phone information about loads? We have started using this and have our parameters are all set and we are getting many emails about loads that we can call on. What we have found is that we are seeing loads while we are driving through...

Celebrate the holidays with #TeamRunSmart by telling us what you are most thankful for. We are giving away over $1,000 worth of prizes including a#KindleFire HDX 8.9". http://on.fb.me/YSHeP4

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For the past three years I have been scanning in all of my receipts and I have to admit it really has saved our behinds a couple of times or at least made our lives a lot easier. One of the reasons it has helped us so much is that since we do not go home often I always have receipts with me...

We are starting a monthly conference call each Monday of the month at 10 am Central Time. Any Trucker Buddy driver, teacher or supporter is welcome to participate. We will gladly answer questions, offer ideas and support and listen to ideas on how to make TBI better. The next call is going to be...

This article is very interesting and at the same time once someone figures out how to chemically create a meat that we will find tolerable many will never taste "real" food. One of the comments was that in 1840 70% of the American labor force worked in agriculture and in 2000 barely 2% of the...

We went into service one week ago today and have we learned a lot. 1. Phone calls offering loads and we accept or reject load offer at this time 2. Receiving the load on the QC that consists of one page. Pickup and delivery information We figure out our directions and...