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I want to throw a hypothetical question out there. If I've always been a "company driver" that has never paid for anything besides my personal expenses(food,beverages,etc.) on the road what is the best method of researching what my possible cost per mile would be when I decide to take the leap...

What companies have expedite flatbed? Do you require your contractors to provide their own trailer or do you provide/rent them like the dry van trailers? I don't want to assume anything, but I would guess that the contractor is required to provide their own tarps,straps,chains,binders, and...

I know we have been talking about this off and on for some time, but I wanted to bring up another aspect of this. I'm not real knowledgeable on what these people are wanting to see and I will admit that. What I wanted to bring up was the fact that we have a system in place now, I know at least...

First race in the new car and he wins!!!!! That get's me excited.

I know some of you have been keeping him in your thoughts and prayers and I appreciate it. Friday he was released from the hospital. This morning he woke up with a horrible pain in the right side of his chest (where the cancer is) and a temp of 102. My mother in law took him back to the...

Yesterday we found out my father in law, Terry, has cancer where his windpipe goes into his lung. Whatever you call that area.(I'm studying to work with agriculutre not medicine) The doctors say they can't go in and remove it. His cancer doctor did say today that if you had to have cancer this...

I know there isn't much I can do to help in this because I know longer drive. I have taken the time to write a short letter talking about some of the things I think affect the trucking industry. I want to email these letters out to a bunch of people to try to get the general public's attention...

I am starting to get worried about this whole bad economic outlook. I may have no reason to be. I wasn't around during the 30s. If the economy gets hit really hard with this also effect the government's finances? As most of you know I;m on disability and depend on the VA for my medical care and...

I usually don't post here, but this is something that I really wanted the ladies attention for . I know we have some top notch, class A ladies on this site, and my wife needs your prayers. I figure you would understand. My wife is having a lot of lady problems right now, and it's tearing me...

I can't figure out how to get the signature to work. I tried to figure it out. I got the quote typed in and save and uploaded the picture, but still nothing. What am I doing wrong? Never mind I got the quote I can live without the pic.

The reason I ask this is because there is a country music song that came out recently where the singer ,I think Brad Pasley, talks about if he coud write a letter to himself at age 17. If you could do that what would you tell yourself? I know alot of people say if I only knew then what I know...

Yesterday I believe it was, New Jersey's governor signed a bill that bans the death penalty in their state. So what do you think about it? I for one thought I was completely pro death penalty until I did a research paper on the subject. After that I really don't know. After reading articles...

I know quite a few don't care, but please don't rain on my parade. Some care and have kept up with me and my endeavers since I left the industry. This is for you. My EO buddies. Well I got my grades in today. 3 As and 1 B. That's a GPA of 3.75. I'm proud of that. When I was in high school the...

When Ohio State gets beat by LSU they may not want to start a fight with them like they did Ill. The corn fed boys from Loseranna might put a hurt on yalls players when the fists start flying.

A trucker enter a ##### house and walks up to the madam of the house and lays down 1,000 dollars on the desk. He says I want the ugliest fattest woman you got and a bologna sandwich. The madam says with that kind of money you can get a steak and lobster dinner and the prettiest woman in the...

I have a friend who says he wants to get in the expedite industry, but he has a ticket for 14 over plus a ticket for carless driving on his mvr. All this happened a year ago and he says he hasn't had any more tickets since then. I think he said he had 6 points on his mvr. Will any company hire...

If so you may want to read this current issue of Landline Magazine they have an article about the Sprinter. They did a test drive and it was a decent read.

I'm surprised I haven't seen one. That's one of those awnings that they mount on rvs put on a straight truck. Think about it. You could roll it out break out the lawn chairs drink some fruit punch and wait on a load. Maybe even break out one of those lil grills and cook a couple of burgers or a...

I got a couple of questions? Back in the day before the world wide web how did you learn about expedite to know you wanted in? I'm sure yall learned a lot more by trial and error and talking face to face with expediters when you saw them. I was kinda curious what things were like in the mid to...

I don't know if any of you remember, but a few onths ago I posted about how my brothers high school FFA makes biodeisel in their shop. Well we were talking about this weekend and I asked him what did they use to heat the soy oil up with. He said they have 40 gallons of soy oil in a 55 gallon...