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A friend of mine talked to people at Express-1 yesterday. They denied the report that management is being swept out. They were aware of the report but said it was not true. The most interesting thing I read in the news in various publications was, "The international freight forwarding market is...

You learn something new every day.

Thank you for your feedback but I am not sure I get your meaning. What are "googie changes?" Excel is my spreadsheet product of choice but not everyone owns it or wants to. For someone starting out, a free spreadsheet program may be better than Excel because without a free program there may be...

I've heard that one before. Mention a name thinking you will get a free drink and get instead a black eye from a jealous boyfriend and a child support claim from the woman at the end of the bar with three teeth. Playing it safe here. It's a widely known technique, I thought. Before parking for...

Lest an uninformed chain law debate ensue, here are two links to sites that link to the tire chain laws state by state. State Tire Chain Laws and Regulations http://www.tirechain.com/

How do I do that? It happened at Toby's in Hinkley, Minnesota. I did it by letting my mind drift to thinking about their famous warm caramel rolls when I should have been thinking about the truck. Pictured below are the roll and the result.

That (along with our second drive axle) explains why we do not slip and slide around in certain situations while you do, and why you feel the need for Onspots where we do not. Once again, it is all about trade offs. As anyone who has spec'ed a truck knows, a decision about one thing has...

Keep in mind that we have twin screws (two drive axles) on our truck 34,000 lbs. curb weight truck. That make make a difference and perhaps explain how we have avoided the ice and snow situations described above. Our Volvo has been great in ice and snow.

I see now that I misread and misunderstood your question. To amend my answer, it has happened many times that we have pulled into a truck stop off a clear interstate and found the truck stop lot to be not clear. But it has rarely happened that no plowing at all has happened at the truck stop...

In eight years of driving straight trucks, it has never happened that we did that. It happened once that we pulled into a chicken coop (scale) parking area that was ice covered, like a skating rink, but that did not impede our ability to drive in or out. We just went slow. Twice; once in a...

I can see many people using their smart phones and this interactive map to work their way through the Expo. Very cool! The link to the map should greet people when they walk in the door.

We are home now after being on the road 3.5 months. We came home because the freight brought us here on Friday before the Memorial Day weekend. Drivers licence renewal, dental work, and getting our truck body painted gaves reasons to stay. As soon as the truck comes out of the shop we'll roll...

Linda, I know it would only be a best guess given all the variables, but what would your best guess be for DEF consumption by an expediter straight truck over a month in which the truck drove say 12,000 miles? Approximately how many gallons would be used?

Layout's hypothetical run may make sense from a revenue per week perspective. That run combined with another that will likely come may do the trick, especially if the per mile rate is good. You could meet your weekly revenue goal while putting only high paying miles on the truck. As a...

We have EGR issues on our Volvo D-12 engine but will not plug it off. We will instead live with the inconvenience and expense of replacing the valves every 300,000 miles or so as they fail. Mechanics told me stories of drivers who blocked off their EGR valves and later had major engine...

Thinking more about the new FDCC base plate deal, I was too quick to criticize. There are pros and cons. While it remains true, I believe, that an owner-operator who cannot afford one's own base plate is an owner-operator who could benefit from improving one's business and money management...

That would be Diane and me. We would never have considered trucking if air conditioning, power steering and such would not have been available. White collar scum bags we were! And there were those who hated us all the more when we made the job look easy.

You are going down an errant path. Go back and look at what I wrote exactly. Scum bag is a figure of speach in that context. It does not refer to anyone in particular.

When your carrier opens its doors, not necessarily to scum bags, but to owner-operators who cannot afford their own base plates, it becomes your business. When carriers put technology in trucks that enable them to higher less professional people at a lower price, that too becomes your business.

Interesting point about the technologies you mention, all of which are about driver comfort (and perhaps safety), and are taken for granted today. The newer technologies are of a different sort. They create an information link between truck and carrier and thereby change what carriers used to...