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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...

Sometimes when we leave home we forget items, some are important and others we can live without. When we are leaving home for a few months at a time and we forget something important it is really frustrating. Somethings can be repurchased and others we have to learn to do without. Over the...

Protecting sensitive information is another important part of our job as drivers. Think twice before posting what may be sensitive information to social media or online. A good rule of thumb is, if it's questionable don't post it. CLICK HERE to see more...

Everyday laundry stacks up in the truck and could overrun us if we had enough clothes. Throwing our dirty clothes out is not an option even though I think it sounds like a great option. Public laundry rooms are not my idea of a wonderful weekend even though every once in a while, we meet some...

“Friggin’ crooks”. “Too much bio in their fuel”. “Outdated and overpriced”. If you are an owner operator and have spent any length of time on the road, you probably recognize the above sentiments. You can probably even tell which truck stop, or travel center as they are calling themselves these...

Talking to a friend about liftgates today and it brought back a lot of memories, some not so good. Within our first few months as expediters, we were asked to help a liftgate truck move a lot of computers to a new a new location in the middle of the night so as not to disturb business. This was...

Not knowing how things are going to be when you get out on the road is something a lot of people question. I want to share my personal experience of how it was coming into expediting with virtually no experience and some of the challenges I faced as an individual as well as team driving with my...

What is the ideal truck for you? If you ask other drivers, you are likely to get as many different opinions as the number of drivers you ask. Truth is, only you can decide which truck will best suit your expediting needs and if you do not know, how are you supposed to find out? Research...