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The busiest week in the last two months. Started the week with two short loads each day. The second load was a repeat of the first load. The shipper asked if I was still in the area and to offer it to me first. I aim to please. Then from Wednesday to Friday, it was Indiana, to Illinois, to...

Having Cameras surrounding the truck can bring about peace of mind and also no incidents. We have four cameras on our truck, one on the passenger side, one back up camera, and two in the box. The camera we use the most is our backup camera and every time we put the truck in reverse we turn the...

US 31 now bypasses Kokomo, Indiana. From the west side of Michigan heading straight south through Indiana, I like using US 31. One of the last congested areas north of Indianapolis was where the highway ran straight through Kokomo. Now the highway bypasses the city to the east. READ MORE...

Hi Everyone, TEANA (The Expediting Association of North America) has again taken the leadership role in our Expediting community by launching V.O.I., or Verification of Insurance program. In the past couple of years TEANA’s legislative and legal efforts have been...

After my blog on 20 Top Things not to eat and why there were a variety of comments. One of the comments and a reply really got my attention. This is a portion of one of the comments a poster made: You know, people are doing all this to live longer. What's the point of living? Moderation...

A driver asked me the other day if I had heard of any solution to legs and hands swelling. While I have not encountered this problem it intrigued me on what could be done to help this situation. I expected to find a lot of information about salt intake and to avoid salt but that was not the...

Who would have guessed in 1978 that two seventeen years olds getting married would still be married 36 years later? Another year has passed and we are celebrating our anniversary. Terry O'Connell really summed up the meaning "Team...

This is the result of my trolling strategy going into the past week. Last week I was trying to decide how to move north and at the same time find freight. The plan was to move to Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday evening. Midday Monday...

When, Where and How we have met people out on the road create a lot of fond memories. We are stopped today at a Wal-Mart where we met up with another couple to have Mexican food at a location they had found nearby. This couple we...

Navigating all obstacles during RoadCheck 2014. This post of Looking Both Ways is all about the upcoming Roadside Inspection Blitz known as Roadcheck 2014. Learn how to be successful navigating our nation’s highways as an expedite driver or owner operator during this law enforcement road...

Lisa and her husband Terry contacted us many years ago about getting into expediting and through that initial contact we became friends. We often met while out on the road and we all shared a common love of animals and our lives as expediters. Terry and Lisa traveled with their Basset Hound...

Decisions, decisions… I can’t really call it slow yet. I haven’t been in service enough to have a bad string of weeks, but this is the first weekend in months that I didn’t have some kind of work, like a Saturday delivery or Monday...

Nothing stays the same EVER... The world keeps turning and the sand keeps shifting. Whenever stepping out to the edge in business or contemplating a change we often hear the sky is falling, the world is coming to an end, as we know it, and many doom and gloom prophecies... When we made the...

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...