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You sure don't want to see us coming your way right now! We have a hook on the back of the truck and we are dragging the snow and ice with us. One thing we have found is how much it costs in the winter to keep your truck clean. I have been amazed in the last two months how much we have spent...

I had the brilliant idea of an under the counter coffee pot. Save room and when it is my turn to drive wake up to fresh brewed coffee. Well Bob in stalled the coffee pot with the standard bungee cord holding everything together. First night wake up to the smell of coffee. Nice! Then the...

Bob and I found we don’t really like looking at the same things at the truck show! He can stand for hours admiring lights, tires and shiny things! Not saying I don’t like them but my gosh how can you stand and almost drool over that stuff? Now me I like the free cool bags and the rulers...

We are in Hesperia CA and had our truck washed at the Little Sisters Truck Wash. 45.00 for a straight truck and they did a fantastic job. They actually used rags to wash out the wheels, the inside of the tire wells and the roof of the truck. They even wiped down the antennas! Then when all...

We are presently living in an apartment with our oldest daughter. We had a house the first part of our trucking career. We had a nice house with acreage that we really enjoyed. We found that out on the road we worried about our home a lot. When we went home we had lots to do as for some...

We have our budget set up by the month. We try to plan our home time on a month that has 5 pay periods. This doesn't seem to hurt the checking account as much this way. We also schedule any maintenance that needs to be one to the truck that we can during this time.

We had a big truck back into our sleeper door while at the Flying J in Laredo TX. We thought we where lucky as the guy gave us all of his information including insurance. We thought no problem we will contact insurance and all is well. Wrong! The insurance company does not carry them anymore...

Jeff really has hit on a sore spot with us. We are not White Glove but we always where our FEDEX Custom Critical uniform to pickup or deliver a load. We feel the amount of respect we receive when we walk into a shipper is worth the effort. We try to keep our truck looking nice also which...

I have found that you cannot have a normal conversation with professional drivers! When we all get together we tend to consider all of the United States and Canada our back yard. I think we all have fun talking about different areas of the country and comparing notes of what we have seen are...

We have a problem sometimes needing to receive a fax. We have found that some companies have figured out how to scan and email you what you need but others are still struggling with this concept. Some friends of ours told us about https://www.efax.com/, which can be a free service, or if you...

When Bob and I decided to make our first post we about made ourselves sick. We had a topic we wanted to reply to but had never ever been anything but lurkers. When we finally decided enough was enough we had to post our opinion. I highly value our daughters opinions so I sent each of them a...

We check the value of our truck with the dealer we bought it from about ever 6 months. We then update our insurance carrier of our new market value. This is one of the hidden ways for us to save money. Our insurance will only pay market value of the truck. You will find if you purchased your...

We ran 1% less miles in 2006 then we did in 2005 and our income was up 10%. I was very surprised when I compared our fuel costs from 2006 to 2005 which where down 23%. I attribute that to several changes we made this year which have really paid off for us. We changed our transmission from a...

I have been thinking that this year I am going to try something different for a New Years resolution then the same old waste of time things I usually do. I would like to get our affairs in a little better order, that is going to be my New Years Resolution. I am going to start a notebook write...

I was reading the article by Jeff and being reminded the whole time that a FICO score is an I love debt score. It is to bad that in order to have a good credit score you have to be in debt. If you have no debt and stay that way you have a terrible or no FICO score, which usually means you have...

One of the hard things for me was not being at home at this time of year to decorate. To Bob's dismay I have started decorating the truck with some help from him. We have crossed candy canes on the grill with a wreath. In the truck I have few stuffed Christmas creatures on the dash. A bonging...

I have started playing around with Streets and Trips and customizing some maps. I was given a cover map with all of the Express Centers for FedEx located plus the locations of the Flying J's. I have since added all of the other major fuel stops and then had the brilliant idea of starting...

Hi Dave! Glad you are here and going to share some of your wisdom with us. You will be great addition to the forums, glad you are not a guest anymore!

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