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Considering 4 of the 5 physicians on the FMCSA Medical Review Board have direct ties to the sleep industry, either at sleep clinics, through their own occupational practice where sleep diagnosis is a highly profitable cash cow, and/or via the CPAP medical equipment industry, this should come as...

If your deadhead percentage of total miles driven is more than 25 percent, it's high.

The video at the bottom of the article is one to watch. I'm not sure why the author enclosed official in quotes, though, as if he's using the word ironically or with some reservation, since the official name for mapmaker is actually cartographer. Be that as it may, the 15% figure is one that I...

In 5 years at Panther there was only one instance where they sent a load over the QC, failed to call me, and pulled me off the load for no response.

May the first be quenched. May the second meant be brief. May the fourth be with you. Cinco de May O

Generally, yes. Only if you have a really lot of breakdowns while under load and you become more trouble than you're worth, or if the vehicle is so old, beat up and rusty that it attracts attention from the carrier and they believe it reflects badly on them. FedEx is the most to take that...

There are no hard and fast rules to the CPM. It's a metric to show you what it costs to run the vehicle down the road, so you can determine if you are profitable or not, and determine which loads are more or less profitable, as all miles both before and after a load incurs a cost. If you get a...

That's because it's largely irrelevant. It's a score card or a batting average of things past. It doesn't, really. It can be useful over time across multiple vehicles to compare the cost of ownership per mile of the different vehicles. Or you can use it to see where money went in the past for...

You've just told us that the deal breaker is whether or not you can net $1500 a week. Clearly, that's the very first duck you should line up. The very first.

Unless you have access to some very exclusive, very high paying freight, and a lot of it, there is simply no way you're going to clear $1500 a week in a van. Don't take my or anyone else here's word for it, just call the brokers you have lined up and ask them.

CPM is a measurement of current and future variable and fixed expenses as a ratio of miles driven. Past expenses which will not be repeated are no longer a variable in that ratio. The TCOPM, or Total Cost of Ownership Per Mile, would include every penny spent on the vehicle, including the...

It'll be really nice when it's finished! :copyright::tm:

I replaced my coolant circulation pump a couple of years ago when the ring on the connector broke off inside the hose. I removed that little ring and was able to re-clamp the hose onto it to get me to the delivery and last a couple of weeks until I could get home to replace it. By the way, if...

That :100:percent. The key word being "some." A year or two ago you were doing really well if you could average 1500 miles a week over the course of a year. Now it's closer to 1000-1200. And a buck a mile? No. A year ago a few carriers were making that, but most drivers were getting 80-90 cents...

Based on your questions and statements thus far, I don't think you understand at all that it's a tough business to get into. In fact, it's an astonishingly easy business to get into, especially with a cargo van, which is the very reason the industry is overwhelmed with cargo vans resulting in...

Don't get too far ahead of yourself. Unless you know where your freight is going to come from, and already know there will be a lot of it, it's not likely to go nearly as good as you think it will. Currently the expedite market is flooded, overly-saturated by a wide margin, with cargo vans and...

More or less, yes. When you transport freight under motor carrier authority, whoever owns the authority is the carrier. No. A few carriers want you to be actually incorporated as a distinct business, but as a sole proprietor of a one-truck business, you can simply get your 1099s under your own...

None whatsoever. :mad: People have pulled up to a fuel island and gotten fuel, only to not be able to pull forward. In my case I pulled into a rest area and took a short nap, then backed out of the parking spot and started to head back onto the Interstate, and when it came time to shift from...

With us, it's usually a phone call, to see if we're interesting in running a load they are about to bid on or they have a customer on the other line.

The 03-06 Sprinters have an OEM transmission shelf life of an average between 350,000 to 400,000 miles. My transmission went out at 372,000. The load mentioned above happened when I was past 400,000, so I really don't think the replacing the original transmission and the load are linked in any way.