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It would help if you provided the number of miles driven, and how many of those are unpaid deadhead miles. It would also help to know what the cost per mile is to operate the truck. If you cannot provide that, share what you can. I can plug in some assumed values after that to run the numbers...

Another component in our technology decisions is something I call the Katrina test. Our work sometimes takes us to remote areas for routine deliveries and disaster areas for important disaster relief deliveries and/or support. We could easily find ourselves in an area for several days where...

The bewildering array of communication and navigation choices available today leaves me, well, bewildered. At the moment, I am content to wait until the iPhone breaks free of ATT to see what has settled by then. Thoughts bouncing in my mind now include: 1. We do not want to change cell phone...

I know you put a lot of time and effort into researching the expedite business opportunity, and I am sorry you were unable to find a way in that you were hoping to find. It would have been fun to meet up with you out on the road. But given your location in the country, desire for home time, and...

We have learned that lesson too. Even for something as routine as an oil change or lube job, check to see the job was done right before leaving. This is especially important in expediting as the freight takes us all over and we are never quite sure when we will be back near the vendor that...

The person in question is no more my friend than you are; just someone I have talked to online. Friend or not, I would not ask the person to post a reply. This is not a matter to be debated between the two of you in an online forum. If you have a business matter to settle with this person, take...

When listening to two sides of a story, one generally listens not to one person's verision of both sides, but each person's version of how or her own side. I have read your posts and have heard a bit from the other side. Both versions leave me wondering what the full story really is; but only as...

This author has posted two different threads on the same "I was wronged" topic. What's up with that? It leads me to wonder what the other side of the story is. Actually, it was three threads but one was deleted as a code of conduct violation.

Readers would be wise to read this thread with a cautious eye. There are at least two sides to every story. Having heard bits from both, I am in no hurry to accept claims at face value.

It would be overkill for the truck you describe, but we have good experience with our Onan 7500 Quiet Diesel generator and roof unit. There was a generator fuel pump issue soon after install. That was covered under warranty by an Onan dealer on the road. Other than that, we now have over 4,000...

Change the oil and filters after the first 5,000 miles.

Sure enough. Here are the details. I don't recall exactly, but I think I remember reading in their financial statements that some of the IdleAire execs are in line to receive a healthy chunk of cash; golden parachutes negotiated when the company was young. And the company has never once been...

Observant readers will recognize this as BS. I am a frequent forum reader and no one I know or saw ever suggested ROI does not exist. I have never said ROI does not exist. But in an earlier post, you falsely attributed those words to me. If there is editing to be done, it should be you...

It can work from the other end too. We began not as owner-operators but drivers of a fleet owner's truck. The arrangement was 60/40, with 60% going to us, us receiving 100% of the fuel surcharge, and us paying for fuel. After a few months, we had a pretty good idea of what gross revenue was...

Dave, you said the above words in response to Greg who said, "Well Thanks Dave, I thought it was settled that ROI is like Luck, it does not exist. :p" You said essentially the same thing (I read somewhere that ROI does not exist.) at least one other time in other posts. Can you tell us please...

There are contractors out there now that arrange their own time together on cruise ships. So says a contractor we once met on the road. He told us about a group of four teams, including him and his wife, that did so. While the participants vary, it is an annual event. Already blessed with a...

Checking our most recent run, we find the quoted miles and odometer miles to be close enough to not be an issue. Take out the turn we missed and the numbers are nearly the same.

Yes, this helps, and while it is a step in the right direction, what would be truly helpful, as in useful to expediters on the ground, would be a realistic example of how to apply your suggested formula to a typical one-truck expedite business. Yes, there will be variables as no two businesses...

Excellent post, CharlesD. Instead of hinting around that you have inside information or implying that you have some secret freight source that is not available to others, you answer peoples' questions, present the facts, and tell people how they can use the same resource you are using. Nicely done!

I came across a nice piece today that explains how to calculate the payback time for any idle reduction device you might buy or use (APU, generator, IdleAire, shore power, battery powered systems, etc.). Click here to check it out.