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Hypnotism is a brand-new topic to me so I can only speak from what little experience I have and what little I've read. Those who write about it say we commonly experience hypnotic states in our daily walk. Examples include losing yourself in a good book or movie, missing a turn because your...

Here's what the Mao Clinic says about hypnosis.

First, OVM, congratulations on three tobacco-free years! Your post got me thinking more about hypnosis and I'd love to hear more about it from you. What was your experience exactly with hypnosis? Where there multiple sessions? How did you happen to open yourself up to it the first time? Why are...

You are correct. GPS is not essential, but soon after we put it in our truck, we did not want to be without it. The immediate benefit was safety as we approached drop off or pick up sites on local streets. As GPS guided us through the turns, we were able to focus more on the traffic and...

Tumbleweeds, this piece may be of interest to you as well: How to Market Yourself at Landstar

This piece, Seven Habits of High-Earning Expediters by EO writer Sean M. Lyden is spot on and should be mandatory reading by anyone considering the trade and everyone wanting to better their lot in it. (By the way, Lyden is grinding out an impressive body of work. He is an excellent writer...

With our big-sleeper truck, the heat was always on from the engine, generator or shore power. That kept water from freezing in the tanks and other items too; like medications, canned goods, bottled drinks, etc.

Truckers are a determined bunch. When a major corridor like I-95 is closed down, many will seek alternate routes, taking their heavy loads onto secondary roads where the ground is absolutely saturated. The rain is forecast to stop this morning. Hopefully I-95 will reopen soon.

It is a big, big jump to move from employee to self-employed; not so much because the driving is any different, but because of the many business aspects of the work. You are wise to ask questions. ATBS is a large company that serves thousands of truckers with tax preparation. They have some good...

Seems to me that you have answered your own question.

Of course I would spend money to test a theory like this. If I suspected a company was cheating me out of a fair opportunity, and I had the ability to find out for sure by spending the money, absolutely I'd spend it. That does not mean I'd drive a day or hundreds of miles, but if it was within...

Yes, it's true we have been off the road for a while. I offered the suggestion because, if it was us, we'd want to know for sure what's up before making decisions. I presume that an experienced contractor would know how to run an experiment as described above in circumstances in which...

Awesome!

Are the shipments themselves cancelling, or are they being put on different trucks? You can check this out by going to the pick up that was canceled to see if another truck is there. Just arrive as if you did not receive the cancellation message and the load was still on. Walk in as if you were...

Notice that the article cited mentions Uber as one of the players in the autonomous vehicle arena. I believe that taxi cabs will be the first vehicles to use this technology in a big way. Riders now use their cell phones to summon a cab. Summoning a driverless cab will be done the same way...

Those who said that we will not see self-driving trucks on the road in our lifetime may want to think again. While this is not the full-fledged self-driving truck robot fans envision, it is yet another step in that direction; and this time, it puts a self-driving truck on the road in a real use...

Power naps rule!

That's one side of the coin. The other might be that if Uber-style apps are used to directly connect shippers and trucks, the pool of trucks available to brokers would decline. One of the services, if not the main service, brokers provide to their customers is finding trucks. If a customer can...

Regardless of the pros and cons of Qualcomm and mobile apps, it remains true that the Uber approach is a potentially disruptive force in trucking. There are millions of loads that do not require the high-end features Qualcomm can provide. There are millions of shippers who would happily use an...

That's commitment! Keep leaning into it.