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Walking back to the truck and having a pet watching and waiting for you cannot help but bring a smile to your face. Living with a pet full time creates a very strong attachment between the pet and their humans. Our pets learn many words and also can read our emotions quickly. When we are sad...

Trucker Buddy - Why communicate with a bunch of students? The rewards are more than you could ever guess. Over the years we have had three different teachers and have had our current teacher, Stephanie for many years. Our first teacher was in Saint Louis and lasted a couple of years. During...

Lack of parking. Paid parking. Paid Reserve parking. Overpriced. Unhealthy food choices. Trashy parking lots. A small sampling of the complaints from truck drivers regarding truck stops. While many drivers seem to believe it is an “us against them” situation, please consider both sides. From...

Everyone has their own reasons for getting into expediting. These are some of the reasons we feel expediting is so great. CLICK HERE to see more...

Trying to get home is usually not in a straight line. Example of how the illogical logic in trucking works when trying to get home: Sitting in Atlanta, GA 623 miles from home Get a load to Kansas City, MO 810 miles but we are now only 210 miles from home and we have made some money. Over...

For all the bad press and the social media complaints from drivers, you would think all the “greedy” truck stops were just the most horrible places for a driver to be and Satan’s disciples were running the show. How about some good truck stop news. Reacting to a problem, at least one truck stop...

What to do over a holiday weekend besides sitting at a truck stop? Over this past Memorial weekend, we delivered in Tucson, AZ on Friday and were not picking up until Tuesday morning. We pretty much had a guaranteed three and a half days of sitting and the truck stop did not sound appealing...

As the hotter months are approaching we always worry about being out of the truck & leaving our dogs for long periods of time. Even though we have an APU to run the AC for them you never know when it or the AC could stop running. CLICK HERE to see more...

Texas is by no means a huge dog but at a year old and not all the way filled out, and at eighty pounds she is not a lap dog. Texas, our German Shepherd got into the truck at about seven weeks of age. She started out having to stay in a kennel when we were not in the truck and also sleeping in...

Seeing and being seen are two different things. I don't think anyone would disagree that the trucking industry has changed over the last few decades, and that many of the changes have put more scrutiny on drivers and trucks. Today's drivers are being held to higher safety standards as are the...

During the long months of summer, we often use the big truck's trailers as shade and in times of high winds, we use them as a windbreak. This past day I circled the parking lot at a truck stop and found the perfect truck! This truck was parked in a nice area with room behind for Texas to...

Why do some of today’s truck drivers feel the shipper or consignee owe them a place to stay for hours on end? READ MORE...

Reaching the summit of your business goals is often challenging. There are many peaks and valleys along the way. Just when you reach the top, oftentimes there can be a plateau, but more often there is a another valley on your way to the next peak. Coasting may improve your fuel mileage, but...

We have a winner for the Plantronics Voyager 104 Trucking Headset!! Congratulations to Edgar Gonzalez & thank you to everyone who entered to win. CLICK HERE to see more...

Don’t get into Expediting if you need to be home nightly or weekly as it probably will not happen. Very few and really, I know of no expedite company that has directional dispatch. Every once in a while, we hear of a dedicated run that an expediter is on that gets them home often but, these...

We always enjoy getting out of the truck & finding things to do when we have time between loads. Since we had a few days before our next load picked up we checked out some things around Minot North Dakota. We enjoyed the scenery & drive around Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge & Lake...

It’s easy to get wrapped up in all the things we have to do as owner operators to keep our business profitable. After all we do just to get to a load, then the customer keeps us waiting for our load. We do not earn any more revenue, unless you count detention pay, for time spent waiting on them...

So Picture This: You’ve advertised for a driver (using a logo your creative nephew designed) and as the new driver is making his delivery to your customer he’s also gossiping dirt about a competitor. He’s in a hurry because he wants to catch another load that day so he “helps out” the customer...

As the years go by we often pass some kind of landmark that is a reminder of an event. The other day I was reminded as I drove under an overpass to get onto I-35 going north that many years ago we lost an injector at that very location. This caused us and others a lot of stress as we had a...

Earthworms are interesting. Most of their life is spent, as their name implies, in the moist earth. These burrowing creatures live, breed and thrive below the surface in moist soils. Then the rain comes, and these little buggers come to the surface and can be seen everywhere. In parking lots...