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Thinking a little more about this, it may work OK with steel wheels, but if you have aluminum wheels, the chain may not be the best thing for them.

>Aw heck, we are having so much fun that we may never retire. > :) With that, we agree. While we are focused on setting up a financially secure retirement, retirement is not plan A. It is not even plan B. We love what we are doing, so why quit? Retirement is not something we want to do. It...

Our pastor's son recently returned from Iraq and our nephew completed 8 years of active duty service but in other countries. Not like having sons and daughters over there, but we know the relief that comes when someone close gets out. Great news you shared. Just sad that because of the war and...

>So once again how will you change your lifestyle when you >pay off your truck? In a major way, probably not at all. In minor ways, perhaps some. By that I mean, we may not be as driven to get back in the game after taking two days off to rest up. We might wait three or four days. Whether the...

>Phil what are your future plans for when you pay off your >truck? How will the change your business decisions? I can't say for sure until we get the truck paid off, which we expect to do no later than June, 2008 (18-24 months after we bought the truck). I asked the question about how it...

Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, BA. Then Dunwoody Industrial Institute (now Dunwoody College), Minneapolis, MN, tech school diploma in auto mechanics. Then Luther Theological Seminary in Saint Paul for one year.

Well, this discussion has been fun but I figured we reached the point where good information would help. I called my alma mater and asked the registrar if I had one degree or two. He said I have one degree and two majors. The college awards the BA or BS one time and majors as often as they are...

Is he still wrong? Yes.

Our Haloween plans are now made. We will be sitting safely in an RV park, fending off the evil spirits from there.

I have not tried it myself but read in another forum an idea posted by another driver. In addition to tire chains, he carries two single lengths of chain and bolts with nuts and washers to fasten the ends together. On two rear wheels, he will loop a length of chain though a wheel and around the...

While hauling fast freight, Santa Claus is not a true expediter. his rig is not exclusive use and his deliveries are scheduled well in advance.

Answers to the second question you asked, about freight over the Christmas holidays have been given in a previous thread. See: http://www.expeditersonline.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=2167&forum=DCForumID2&viewmode=all

Some owner-operators move from one new truck to the next, never paying them off and always making payments. Others pay cash for their trucks. Still others borrow money to buy their trucks, pay them off and continue to run the paid for trucks for a time. This is a question for the latter group...

We run over the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving 2003: Delivered Wednesday, 11/26 in Kent, WA. Picked up Friday, 11/28 in Tulatin, OR and ran that load to New Mexico. Had Thanksgiving dinner in the fine dining restaurant atop Seattle's Space Needle. Thanksgiving 2004: Picked up Wednesday...

Now I'm confused. When I graduated from college with a double major in history and philosophy, I received one degree (fancy piece of paper) that said Bachelor of Arts. I always thought I had one BA degree with a double major. From what I read here I wonder, do I have two degrees, a BA in...

One Halloween night, we were driving through Queens (New York City) after making an 8:30 p.m. lift gate delivery on the sidewalk. A loud bang on the side of the truck startled us half to death. A heart-stopped instant later, we figured out someone had thrown an egg that hit the passenger window...

I remembered a few more. The married couple team that did very well as expediters for a number of years, and then left to become U.S. Border Patrol officers. Two seventy-something men, marginally fit, who teamed up in a fleet owner's truck and left their wives at home because their retirement...

> First you people say based on studies you will use 1/10 of >a gallon for every mile per hour increase. I don't doubt >that it is more fuel used, I just question the amount. Keep >in mind that those numbers are given for class eight trucks >with a trailer with an engine that is thirty...

A straight solo, eh? I laugh because one of my brother-in-laws was surfing expediting sites out of curiosity. He asked us why so many people felt the need to identify themselves as straight truck drivers. He wondered if there were gay truck drivers too.

Pony Express had a good gig in the western states for a while. One horsepower rigs, lots of free parking.