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Back in service, Florida. Front row seats. First load back in service. 800 miles to Destin, Florida. READ MORE...

I haven’t been slacking off. Honestly. For a few years I’ve considered the idea of buying small pieces of property scattered across the expedite world. Some with structures, some just vacant land. Then I could just pop over to my nearest plot instead of always trying to hit one moving target...

This is the second in a series of workshops and we are looking forward to an educational evening. Each time we have attended one of these events we come away with more knowledge then when we went in. We look forward to meeting new people who are considering expediting and hope to meet...

I forgot what clear vision was like until I replaced the windshield. The original windshield lasted 580,000 miles. Seven years of pitting and abrasion weathered the glass so slowly I didn’t realize how hazy the view was getting. A heavy chunk of rubber fixed that. READ MORE...

Hey - Listen up! EO University is coming to the Cleveland Ohio area for the first time! Come get your degree! This post of Looking Both Ways is all about Expediter’s University and the upcoming workshop in Strongsville (Cleveland area) Ohio on May 15, 2014. Please join us from 5pm to...

So after approximately 1,425,000 miles traveled as team drivers do I still get excited? This year we pushed out how long we stayed away from home due to weather conditions. We usually plan on home time every two to three months but this time we went almost four months. We are perfectly...

Read no farther if you aren’t interested in $30 water bottle. I’ve been watching this bottle for a couple years and finally decided to get it. A company called Guyot Designs originally produced it, but they didn’t keep up with demand, so it was usually a backorder item across the internet. My...

Our niche in the trucking industry is to keep a plant productive until a tractor-trailer arrives with the amount of product a customer needs. Our load usually consists of a couple of pallets that comes nowhere close to filling up our box. In ten years of Expediting I can only think of a...

Understanding the intimate relationships between you, roadside inspections, CSA, PSP and ISS scores. This post of Looking Both Ways is about roadside inspections, moving violations, crashes and how they affect you and your Carrier. We are now a couple years into CSA and many drivers and...

Finally Bob is happy with his skirts... Everything came together this time while we were home and Bob was able to finish the skirts on the truck. When we arrived home we first took the truck for its various appointments to have some maintenance service work done. READ MORE...

Out of service—brakes. For April I’ve been out of service almost as much as I was in service for March. It’s still been a productive month. READ MORE...

We are home for two weeks and we are making the most of it. Home time involves a mixture of work and fun and so far we have been enjoying both. Bob has been working on the skirts for the truck and getting that project finished. He has a few other odds and ends he wanted to get accomplished...

Another set of darn fasteners. These are the fasteners that hold the side molding in place along the sides and over the fenders. I destoy a few to pass along how to remove them without destroying them. Most of the advice on removing the molding is something along the lines of “just pop them...

That was my initial reaction when a good friend joined Trucker Buddy and then he started telling me about his class. Then he shared drawings that the students had made of him and his truck, then he shared letters asking all kinds of questions and before long I was asking about his class. I was...

We left home the third of January with intentions of being home in late February to get our taxes ready to be sent off to our accountant. This plan changed as we ended up with an extra few days at our youngest daughters house and I had our mail forwarded to us. Each time we planned to go home...

It’s taking a while to clean things up. I usually don’t take this much time off in one stretch, but I’m getting a lot done. Oil and filter change, check. 580,000 miles on the odometer. It took a four foot cheater bar to loosen the drain plug for the differential case. READ MORE...

This will change once you start driving a truck... Truck Stops and the Interstate are not Quiet places! It is amazing the noise level out here and all of the different noises that we hear all day and night. The sounds never stop unless we are lucky enough to park at a customer’s lot that’s...

I posted my freight diary during the month of March. This is the final list for March. I started listing the numbers to show what a good string of loads looks like. It ended up being one of my best months ever. READ MORE...

Out of Service, spring cleaning. The record setting month of March didn’t give me much time for housekeeping, so as usual I use the early parts of the month or better yet the early part of the quarter to take a few days off to catch up. Rolling into my final parking place my check engine and...

Changing one kind of stress for another, desk job to holding a steering wheel each day. This discussion of stress came up the other day and it caught me by surprise, as it is something I do not think about often. One study I looked at listed truck driving as 8th on the list of most dangerous...