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Whether you drive a cargo van, sprinter, straight truck or tractor trailer, overweight loads are a possibility each time you go to pick up a load. Along with overweight loads can come overweight fines. There are a few ways of dealing with overweight loads once you have been caught at a weigh...

Some of the dangers to be aware of when you are out on the road. CLICK HERE to see more...

We traveled with the 6th grade on one day and then the 7th grade on the next day to see one of the Channel Islands and then a Monastery; let the adventure begin. On Tuesday May 10, 2016 we started the day early as we took the ferry from Saint Malo to the channel island of Guernsey. In our...

The side of my truck does not say Eureka….Hoover….Dirt Devil ...or any other vacuum brand name. It says Landstar. Even before I leased to Landstar, I’ve never driven a truck with vacuum labels on the side. Yet, as long as I can remember, passing vehicles will get drawn closer to me when they...

2 of the apps we use on a daily basis and how we use them to help us on the road. CLICK HERE to see more...

Our first day with our oldest class was overwhelming and frankly intimidating as we walked out onto the playground and saw the cheering crowd. As we walked from the school to the playground we saw the group of eighth grade students, faculty and then the TV reporter and camera. We were as...

Come along with us and see what it's like on a 2363 mile run from NC to NV. Click Here to see more!

Companies moving offshore, layoffs, slow economy. We hear these same stories almost everyday. We hear that if a company moves its’ operations to Mexico or any other country, a portion of the U.S. population will claim that they will not buy their products any longer. What is the real impact on...

Our school is in Saint Malo, France and is part of the Brittany Islands. We learned a saying while there "Neither England nor France, we are Brittany Brittany Brittany. Our teacher Stephanie Derrien-Guivarch, the English teacher at Chateaubriand College has became a close friend over the years...

Tips on dealing with dispatch and what things to negotiate on when accepting loads. CLICK HERE to see more....

Your cost per mile, if you have figured it, will tell you how much you need per mile to break even and make a profit. You may figure your expenses as per day pay, whatever your method is for figuring your expenses, you know, or should know, what you need to cover your costs to operate. There are...

EOBR ELD Paper logs there is no difference in the concept. Lets level the playing field. Ok, it is easy for me so see why we belong to trucking organizations, like the Western States Trucking Association (WSTA), National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC) and the Owner Operator...

It's a normal thing that one will catch a stone thrown from a passing vehicle resulting in a visible chip in the windshield. The D.O.T. regulations 393.60(c) refers to windshield condition. "( c) Windshield condition. With the exception of the conditions listed in paragraphs(c)(1), (c)(2), and...

My old beagle has a few years on her. She’s a great companion, although becoming a little less active as years go by, she still has a lot of :censoredsign: in her. She still hunts on her own when we go outside, but mostly she just lies around and enjoys the spoils of a life of leisure. We recently kept...

I take you along and show you a little of what a typical day is like out on the road in expediting. CLICK HERE to see more...

Adding to John Mueller's excellent Blog "All About Cargo", I wanted everyone to be aware that there is a Cargo policy starting to float around our Expediting Community that is ACV vs Legal or Broad Form in how it pays out claims. Why is that important to you? An Actual Cash Value policy reads...

In Expediting we are often running our behinds off or we are waiting there is usually no middle ground. While waiting for a load we make sure that we are actually available for a load. We double-check our status that we are in service and we are located where the computer thinks we are located...

Recently, I had a conversation with a driver from another carrier, next to my truck, in a truck stop parking lot.. Among other things that he was discouraged about in this industry, he pointed to my electronic logs sticker on the door of my truck and said “That right there is why I’m getting out...

Curious about bringing your four legged friends out on the road with you? Here's some helpful tips & info about having pets out on the road. CLICK HERE to see more...

This post of Looking Both Ways will take a look at Cargo. Many of you have hauled all kinds of freight and have also most likely moved some pretty interesting loads. Transporting the cargo or the load is how all of us in this industry make our living. Without the cargo, we all would be without a...