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The introduction to this forum says, "The Layover Lounge is where you can share the best places and activities to do while you're on a layover. Got a favorite place? Post it for all to see." We found a great one in the Seattle/Tacoma area; Point Defiance Park. You can't overnight there but it...

RE: Getting into this business? Questions and Ans >ATeam gave you a good example above, of the problems you'll >face, if you try to stick to a fixed in/out schedule. So, >can you net a kilo-buck a week in expediting in a straight >truck? The answer is yes, but only if you let the freight...

The article, "Introduction to Expediting" may help answer some of your questions. See: http://www.expeditersonline.com/downloads/introduction.pdf

>We read read read about trucking, corporations and staying >in touch with the business world. We are both interested in >taking some on line courses and wondered if anyone else has >tried this? It seems like the more you learn the more you >want to learn. I understand that MIT (Mass...

I conduct ongoing research into the expediting and trucking industries using a variety of resources including: 1. Trade publications including Land Line magazine, The Trucker newspaper, Overdrive magazine, and virtually every free publication you see on the stands at truck stops. 2. Annual...

I don't know how my comments got turned into suggestions of dispatch favoritism. Let me try to say it again. It is in no way favoritism for a dispatcher to give us only short runs and no long runs, when all other dispatchers that gave us more than a few runs gave a healthy mix of short and...

Oops! Sorry. My apologies to RichM. I said something here I should not have and have edited my comments away. I should have left well enough alone.

RE: Getting into this business? Questions and Ans I presume you are going to school to get a Class A license, which opens up many truck-driving styles to you. With your expressed desire to get home often, you might be better off looking at LTL carriers like FedEx Freight, Yellow, and those...

Your questions and the concerns that lie behind them, if I read your post correctly, point to a fact of life in expediting that all newbies should know. When your very first load comes, there is no time to learn the basic skills. There is only time to run the freight. But there is very little...

RE: Do you take the time to continue your educatio Thank you, TeamDrivers2, for sharing your story and information. While I know FedEx ran Mexico freight by transferring it to other trucks, I had no idea FedEx sometimes sent Custom Critical trucks south of the border too. Fascinating info...

>Amen to Ace and late for dinner. That's where I learned. >Knowing I was going to be asked, got me into the habit of >double checking, same as with hazmat labels, proper >paperwork, etc. I think all companies should ask, and the >dispatchers should have an idea of what is required.. ie...

A shoebox >full of index cards will store and retrieve any data a >computer will. The difference is how quickly you can >complete a series of interrelated calculations dependent on >sequential summations of always differing variables or how >quickly you can sort the shoebox of index cards...

>Funny you bring this up as I was talking to Terry about this >yesterday. This was my solution, as the SOB pulled up next >to me at 6:00 AM. > >At 8:00 I keep a jar of Vaseline, would have loved to of >stuck around when he touched that door handle. I know it >was mean, being woken up on a...

A couple nights ago, we were in the bobtail lot at Jubitz truck stop in Portland, OR. I counted 27 bobtail trucks parked there. Only two were idling. A couple more had generators. The rest were turned off. The weather was perfect for no-idle sleep. But what was different was even just a year or...

>I have a question to all that have posted here. > > >What is it exactly you are looking for? Notwithstanding my "computers suck" opinion, I am proficient in computers and do use them daily for business, personal, and entertainment purposes. In business, computers can help you analyze things...

We've driven only class 8 trucks in our 2.5 years on the road; a few Freightliner Century Class trucks and now a Western Star; all D-units, all with auto shift or full automatic transmissions, various engines and axle ratios. Our fuel economy numbers range from 6.9 MPG to 9.5 MPG, depending on...

I've heard of a couple that makes it a point to present a copy of a post. But no one has ever told me who they are or why they are doing it (if they exist at all). If the couple really does exist, it's a safe bet they failed to tell you that there never was a golden goose and the smart drivers...

It would be wise to check with your carrier before building such a sleeper. The FMCSA rules are vague regarding sleeper construction requirements. One carrier may interpret them one way and another carrier another way. See 393.76 Sleeper berths...

>Run like hell when the >freight is there, and live cheap when it's not. Every >buisness on earth has slow times. You just learn to make do >and save while you can. Sound wisdom. Very well said.

Maybe it's already out there and I have not yet learned of it. If not, I'd like to say LEA's recruiting and retention efforts could be improved by an in-depth explaination of Landstar's system, including a working model of the board that could be sampled online. Anyone researching the Landstar...