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Some truck washes have displays of truck wash products. Keep an eye out for them and check out the brands on line. I have seen a line of commercial truck wash products on display at some Granger stores too. NAPA may also have information to offer you. Generally, when you get into an area...

Your analysis of this dynamic is correct but you need to include labor unions too. It's not just big business that uses its influence in government to make rules that benefit it. Any organization that has the power to shape policy does the same. Notice just one union example that is in play...

It happens from time to time. I shake them like any other tailgater by slowing down.

I know little about buying an extended warranty on a used truck but can tell you what Diane and I did when we bought our new truck. We took delivery of this truck in 2006 and extended the warranty coverage out to five years/500,000 miles, less engine where we went the standard factory warranty...

Leo, I thought of you when I read news about class action law suits that have been filed against CAT. You are aware of them?

That would be huge and it would open a host of possibilities in optimizing individual trucks and the entire fleet. I was not expecting that to come out of our carrier. I am happy enough to see access to past logs provided. If digitized and normalized data became easily available to the drivers...

I am surprised that the promoters of the new Qualcomm/EOBR systems have not yet mentioned the news yet that came in the November 5 Fleet Bulletin about viewing, saving and printing your hours of service history. I raised the issue here on February 10 and here on February 14. It got a lot of...

Full Story Here A law firm seems to be active in pursuing class action law suits based on some of the grievances truckers have voiced for years. Schneider and Swift are targeted. It will be interesting to see where this goes from here.

My wife and I are leased on to a large company. We are not fools and they are not mindless wonders. Regarding the routing scenario you present, Diane and I have been in similar circumstances but have never had a problem. Perhaps that is because we handled it differently. Say we had a CA to NY...

Readers may be interested in your California and western state experience this trip. I invite you to post them in the West Side Story thread.

Places we have used shore power for our truck: 1. At home in our driveway 2. At RV parks when staying there 3. At Jubitz truck stop in Portland, Oregon 4. At the homes of friends and relatives when we are staying there. 5. In the service bays at dealerships when the truck is being worked...

You did not mention the third option of adding a lift axle. Tandem axles have several disadvantages. You will pay higher tolls. You will buy more tires over the life of the truck. Two drive axles require more maintenance and repair than one. And, they are not needed since expedited loads are...

Our most recent series of runs that took us to the West Coast and back will conclude on Friday with a delivery east. Details here.

I hear that! The fleet owner who hurt us worst spoke of Jesus first. In expediting and in other businesses I have learned that the quicker someone is to suggest that you should do business with him or her because of one's Christian beliefs, the more cautious to be about doing so. Cheats are...

You know that's not true. We are talking about speed limits here (at least I am). While some people may observe them more often than others, that has nothing to do with perfection.

No, we don't all creep up now and then. Diane and I are very religious about operating within the speed limit but it has nothing to do with our witness or Christian beliefs. We don't obey the speed limits because we fear God. We obey the speed limits because we fear higher fuel costs...

So, you're talking about a company that puts $500,000 worth of radioactive medicine that corrupts quickly on an SUV, crossover, pickup truck, van or whatever; attaches a certain amount of liability to the driver of that vehicle; and pays a self-employed contractor $0.46 a mile plus a whopping $5...

Have you talked to others who contract with this company? At that pay, I have to wonder if anyone can be found who has been with the company for a meaningful period of time and whose bank balance is bigger now than it was when he or she started.

National patriotism is easy to inspire when you have a powerful enemy attacking your shores and another attacking your friends. Less so today when the U.S. population is far more diversified and the enemy is an unidentifiable terrorist (until caught) attacking a single plane or a few buildings...

We will do this Thanksgiving what we do every year; stay out and available to haul freight, and celebrate Thanksgiving at home with family only if the freight takes us close and provides the time. Our hope is to be under load on Thanksgiving day rolling happily cross-country on a long run...