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A while back I had this reeeally exquisite dish at a Casino restaurant the wife and I frequent. It consisted of angel hair pasta, portabello mushrooms, and vodka sauce. I knew I must have this dish again sometime soon. So, while recently purchasing food supplies for the truck's pantry I came...

It seems the trend in expedite trucks is to buy a big sleeper with all of the amenities on-board to be more comfortable and save on motel bills. Great idea until the "34 hour restart! Why buy these sleepers so that we don't have to go into the truckstop to eat,pee,and shower, only to be told...

How far will you go to accommadate a customer's Courier regardless of the length of the run? Do you have a single or double bunk sleeper? What if dispatch said the customer required that the drivers provide a bed for the courier to sleep in, regardless of the driver(s) having a bed availible for...

Here's a hypothetical (but potentually real) situation to ponder: You've picked up your sealed load at the shipper and part way into the run you (a T/T rig) break down or you (T/T or Straight truck) become extremely ill. Be you solo or team in a straight truck or T/T lets say circumstances keep...

We started our careers in expediting four years ago this month. We had driven 18 wheelers for years but chose the go into a DR-unit when we switched from common carrier to expediting. It wasn't long before I swore I'd never drive an 18 again. The ease of maneuvering a DR-unit around and finding...

We recently bought a used 2007 Kenworth T-600 with an A.R.I. 132" sleeper. As with anything used we had a handful of items in the sleeper that needed fixing or replacing. That was the easy part. The hard part was getting our schedule to match theirs for these repairs. In Expediting its...

Although the following situation is something any of us is faced with when we go into a facility that does vehicle searches, I'm going to pose this question as a hypothetical situation: Its a rainy day and the ground is muddy at the shipper/receiver's vehicle inspection point. You are told to...

OK, heres one for all of you that have built a CR or DR unit: What is the reason for 99% of these units (uncluding our own) having the belly mount reefer hung on the passenger side of the truck? We are about to embark on a journey to build a CR Unit on a 2007 KW T600B chassis with a long...

I recently inquired about changing from our DR unit to an ER unit. We have over 20 accident and ticket free years tractor trailer experience between us. It has been less than four years since we down sized to a DR unit. We have kept our class A CDL just in case we ever wanted to go back to...

For six and one half years, work a month (or two), come home, park bobtail, then 40' DR-unit in driveway of home we own. No problems, no complaints from neighbors, never hear a word from "Code Enforcement". Leave home end of 1/07, go to work, come home beginning of 3/07. Find letter from "Code...

Have you ever questioned the legality of the "Federal" government charging income taxes on your hard earned wages? Have you ever actually seen or read the federal law passed in 1913 that requires working Americans to pay income tax? If not, you may be suprised! There was a DVD in our last...

How many times while enroute to California on I-80 were you stopped at Verdi,NV because Donner Pass was closed or at the very least required you to chain up due to snow and ice conditions? Rather than take a chance did you pull into Boomtown and park to wait out the storm? Did you feel...

This was recently told to me by a friend that was offered the following and I would be interested in other's thoughts on this: While they were enroute deadheading to Dever,Co dispatch sent them an offer. It was a transfer load which required they meet another truck in the Dever area early the...

In reading A-Team's thread "Two kinds of out of service" something has been mentioned that disturbs me. A carrier asking that you allow another driver(s) to take your truck to complete a run. This also reminds me of a rumor I've heard that on some of the "High Security" freight the drivers are...

Recently I've been contacted by several team drivers that have had a bad experiance with a fleet owner out of Georgia. Some claim to have lost as much as tens of thousands of dollars to this fleet owner, which they feel has been wrongfully kept. These drivers are wanting to file a Class Action...

There is a new thread that has been posted in the truck talk portion of the EO forum. If you don't normally go there this is a must read, especially for those expediters out here for their first winter. The new fuel blends may change the way our trucks perform this winter as we found out the...

We were recently dispatched on a run that at the time we accepted the load we were not aware of the following: 1. The drivers are required to wait in the driver's lounge while the shipper loads,pads,straps the freight,and closes the box doors and seals it prior the drivers being allowed back to...

Update to post "Almost got my A#%S kicked by JB Hunt driver": Since there were no witnesses to JB's driver striking me in the chest after he had hit our truck, getting Battery charges to stick are all but impossible.Also, JB claims no responsibility for his actions even though he was at their...

We were at a customer loading Thursday afternoon. In drives a JB Hunt. Out jumps this young driver.The shipper tells him to back into the door next to us ( on our passenger side).Driver has a straight line back,real easy.We're in our box padding and strapping when all the sudden we hear a big...

Wanting to know if anyone else has run into this problem: Our signs were put on our truck when it was new in 2001. First they began cracking around the box rivets about two years ago. Then more recently they began cracking all over (like antiquing), first the darker letters followed by the...