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Electronic logging has been out long enough now and is widespread enough that an answer to this question should be available. A survey would be easy enough to do, I would think. My question is, has electronic logging reduced the number of accidents commercial vehicles have? It would be easy...

Interesting piece here about the difference between ACV and Broad Form cargo insurance. Do you know what kind you have? It can be the difference between your financial recovery after an accident and financial ruin.

There are a number of good brands out there and you can find expediters who swear by every one of them. Sadly, it is not uncommon to find expediters who complain about manufacturing defects and reefer installation errors. It's not so much about picking the best brand. Good results also involve...

You are willing to put a consistently unreliable person on the road in a van you own and you have nothing to lose? What about the van itself? You have that to lose do you not? What about the time and expense of getting an unreliable driver out and a better driver in? Do you not have that time...

Accounting has CPAs. Financial planing has CFPs (Certified Financial Planner). These credentials indicate the professional has demonstrated a certain level of knowledge in the field and completes ongoing education to maintain the credential. No small amount of study is required to obtain these...

The question, "How much do your operating expenses decline if you use the load board to accept a load?" was a rhetorical question designed to point out the fact that it costs you the same to drive to the pickup whether the carrier pays you deadhead or not. Using your example, you drive X miles...

So you get DH all miles if they call you to cover the load but limited DH if you accept the very same load off the board? If so, that's a brilliant stroke by the carrier. Why pay full deadhead if you don't have to? Put the load on the board first to see if someone will take it with limited...

We've seen two posts providing hard data from the load board. One was posted by Bruno: All miles: 1,609. Total Pay: $2,183.50. Pay per mile all miles: $1.36 Jack Dixon showed 11 loads off the board, loaded miles only. In more readable form, the numbers are: While Dixon's number are helpful...

Diane and I had been researching a career change into trucking for some time but never made the leap because the big-rig world involved training that would separate us and put us with strangers (trainers) in separate trucks. Continuing our research, we took vacation time to attend MATS. We...

You are correct. Cab comfort was a factor in our entry. Sleeper comfort came later when we built a truck of our own. We drove fleet-owner, 77-inch factory sleeper trucks for the first three years. But you never know. If the money was as good in 1995 as the old-salt expediters are are fond of...

The times then were what they were, just as they are now what they are now. We did not just happen to get into expediting. It wasn't like we had no other options. We left our careers to get into expediting after doing a LOT of research and concluding it was worth a try. The same applies today...

When FedEx introduced the flat rate system and drivers opted into it, many said their decision was made because the flat rate was paid on ALL miles, including deadhead. What happened?

What about the occasional "grand-slam" load? In 2013 and before, with our white-glove CR-unit and security clearances, we were usually able to land one or two great loads that turned an OK month into a great month. By great load I mean a coast-to-coast team run that paid $7,000 to $10,000, or a...

For as long as I've been reading these EO forums, drivers have complained about low rates and talked about days in the past when rates were higher. It's hard to know how much stock to put in such comments because drivers seldom share hard data and you don't always know what their reference point...

The load pictured, am I correct that it works out to $1.36 per mile for all miles driven?

Who WANTS to pay owner/operators or drivers more money? Who sees benefits in doing so? Carriers see their peers paying a certain percentage of the gross to trucks. Do any of them say, let's pay five percent more and benefit from the advantages that will then come our way? Shippers obtain...

Shippers don't want carriers, brokers, drivers or even trucks. They want to move their goods from point A to point B as easily, safely, reliably and inexpensively as possible. If there was a way to do that without carriers, brokers, drivers or trucks (think Star Trek transporters), shippers...

If cloud privacy is a concern, establish a second cloud account that serves only to receive the daily uploads.

Thanks for sharing the details. Establishing a corporation and payroll service that touches all the compliance bases (social security, unemployment, worker's comp, others if applicable) makes sense for some businesses. It also involves administrative costs and the tax impact will vary depending...

For income tax and other reasons, it is desirable for drivers to have historic log info archived. This would be no chore at all if the companies were willing to take it up a notch. Why not make it such that, in addition to what they already do, the electronic devices automatically post each...