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OK. You listed the violations. Earlier you said you wanted to learn your lesson (or words to that effect). Here's your homework assignment: For each violation received, determine the CSA points that are now on your record. Then total them up and determine if you have a snowball's chance of...

If it is true what you say about failing eight DOT inspections, the fault is yours and yours alone. As others have mentioned, the driver is responsible for level 1 and level 2 items. That does not mean you must foot the bill to fix them but if you are a repeat offender by driving the truck...

A couple weeks ago I listed our recent West Coast experience here. That might not have been the best test since it began with a nice run into Los Angeles. Today, the Friday before the week in which Thanksgiving falls, we delivered a load in Salt Lake City that was picked up in New Jersey. We...

I did a quick search on trucker spouse support and found these links. Check them out and see if you find anything helpful. A Truckers Wife, a place where trucker's wives meet and share! Layover Family Center - Trucking Families - Trucker's Wife | Layover.com Keeping the Home Fires Burning |...

If you can make it happen, you will definitely find it to be worth the effort. See this about how expediters came together on Thanksgiving in 2007.

Diane and I generally remain in service and available to haul freight over the Thanksgiving holiday and weekend. That is our intent this year.

It seems reasonable that a new driver would pay his or her own way to get into a fleet owner's truck. However, I have seen cases where fleet owners put unreasonable demands on new drivers before they begin driving by using them as free labor to take the truck here to get serviced and then...

When Diane and I were new in the business, we were asked to do favors or help dispatchers out of a bind or go to bat for the customer or whatever way they put it at the time. After agreeing a few times and finding out that favors done are soon forgotten as dispatchers busy themselves with dozens...

It's cool that the informal gathering has grown as it has but I'd be careful about getting too formal and maybe even too big. When you start involving sponsors, advertising, tents, displays, etc. the truck show people might grow concerned about having an unauthorized show within their show in...

I envy the quality time you are spending with your truck. Not everyone understands how peaceful, contemplative and satisfying that experience can be. Wax on...wax off.

I wouldn't quit worrying just yet. There are too many unanswered questions. Have you even seen the truck that you will supposedly lease? You go four weeks without answers and then after putting up a post here late in the day you receive an answer almost instantly? You need to be more...

It's common knowledge that certain carriers bring drivers on board that are fresh out of school and then use them like cannon fodder until they quit and are replaced by the next batch. It's also common knowledge that these same carriers demand thousands of dollars from the drivers who left, per...

Thanks for the product tip, but I have to ask, how does it come to be that you have to clean fuel off windows?

I have talked with people at Bush Truck Leasing (assuming we are talking about the same company) and know them to have been around for a long time. A financially-competent friend of mine once talked to them about a lease and had good things to say about them. He wasn't talking about how nice...

The Grainger store I visited today did not have the cleaning products display I remember seeing once before. The clerk recommended out of the catalog a truck wash product made by Zep. I did see a degreaser product in the store that is available in quantity and suitable for engine cleaning. It...

It should always be strictly business. Regardless of what led up to your DHPU incident and how it is worked out, dealing with dispatch should always be strictly business.

I did not know that. Thank you, tbcabs!

Educational Video on YouTube about quantative easing and the Federal Reserve Bank.

EO Nation? Well, OK. This EO citizen is freshly showered, sitting in the Binghamton, NY TA, waiting for Diane to finish the laundry. There were other events today but in the interest of brevity I'm sharing just the highlights.

Thinking a bit more about this, it would not be our carrier that would provide the ability to download our digitized log data but Qualcomm. Just as they now offer six months of data as they now do, perhaps our carrier could prevail on them to take the next step and enable us to download our log...