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Answers to the second question you asked, about freight over the Christmas holidays have been given in a previous thread. See: http://www.expeditersonline.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=2167&forum=DCForumID2&viewmode=all

Some owner-operators move from one new truck to the next, never paying them off and always making payments. Others pay cash for their trucks. Still others borrow money to buy their trucks, pay them off and continue to run the paid for trucks for a time. This is a question for the latter group...

We run over the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving 2003: Delivered Wednesday, 11/26 in Kent, WA. Picked up Friday, 11/28 in Tulatin, OR and ran that load to New Mexico. Had Thanksgiving dinner in the fine dining restaurant atop Seattle's Space Needle. Thanksgiving 2004: Picked up Wednesday...

Now I'm confused. When I graduated from college with a double major in history and philosophy, I received one degree (fancy piece of paper) that said Bachelor of Arts. I always thought I had one BA degree with a double major. From what I read here I wonder, do I have two degrees, a BA in...

One Halloween night, we were driving through Queens (New York City) after making an 8:30 p.m. lift gate delivery on the sidewalk. A loud bang on the side of the truck startled us half to death. A heart-stopped instant later, we figured out someone had thrown an egg that hit the passenger window...

I remembered a few more. The married couple team that did very well as expediters for a number of years, and then left to become U.S. Border Patrol officers. Two seventy-something men, marginally fit, who teamed up in a fleet owner's truck and left their wives at home because their retirement...

> First you people say based on studies you will use 1/10 of >a gallon for every mile per hour increase. I don't doubt >that it is more fuel used, I just question the amount. Keep >in mind that those numbers are given for class eight trucks >with a trailer with an engine that is thirty...

A straight solo, eh? I laugh because one of my brother-in-laws was surfing expediting sites out of curiosity. He asked us why so many people felt the need to identify themselves as straight truck drivers. He wondered if there were gay truck drivers too.

Pony Express had a good gig in the western states for a while. One horsepower rigs, lots of free parking.

>In other words,details like business levels and realistic >projections for the industry(21 years in,she knows >plenty)are just not that important. No. That is not what I am saying at all. Of course business levels and realistic projections for the industry are important. But they are not...

One thing that jumped out for me was her comment, "I know that our independent contractors had concerns when we launched (Surface Expedite Network) originally, concerns about the intent of the service, but it has been nothing but good for our surface and air expedite programs. We get some White...

Team drivers have an advantage here in that one can tend to the truck if the other is suddenly hospitalized on the road. The worry of being apart from the truck and its "household" contents and business records is apparent in Greg's words. Options for securing the truck should be kept in mind...

RE: Are truckers at greater risk for staph infecti Not sure about the infections. I can say that since getting into a truck, Diane and I are healthier than we have ever been. We have not been to a doctor for an unexpected reason (one excpetion but that is a totally wierd story, off topic here)...

I've been thinking a bit about the many different ways people run their expediting businesses and why they do so. Here are some descriptions of some of the people we have met for starters. Can you add to the list? A retired married couple driving a B unit as a way to spend time together and see...

>Well I still think if it is taken in the context of an >Alcoholics Anonymous meeting it is hilarious. >======================================== >That is funny. I agree. Moot gave us many chcukles when we reread the post with our inner party animal in mind.

It's interesting about acceptance ratings. At FedEx, if your acceptance percentage is 70% or more, you will be eligible for their Four Star award (other critera also apply). There are not many jobs where you can say no thirty percent of the time and still have a job.

Impressive, Greg, that in the midst of your discomfort (too mild of a term? maybe agony), you share your story to show people how to be prepared for such events on the road and why they should be.

Yes, we are interested. Kindly send the info. I have read about this system before in trucking magazines and thought, yea, OK, another high-tech gadget that does what drivers should be doing on their own. But you got me thinking about in a different way, explaining as you did how sold you are on...

LDWS cost? Where does one go to get it installed? Can installation be done by one's self?

Our straight truck front axle is spec'ed at 14,600 lbs. from the factory. Tires are purchased to match that capacity. State laws vary in how they view steer tire weights. Weight per inch of tire surface on the road is sometimes used. So is weight per inch of wheel width. Memory has faded on...