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Unexplained objects, indeed. The other day I saw two freshly -dropped items side by side on the road; a fire extinguisher and a very large pink pillow. Explain that. ;)

Anytime you put a truck on the road that is out of the ordinary, opinions will be offered pro and con, from a variety of sources, with varying levels of intensity. The negative opinions will matter only to the extent that you allow them to. In the world of custom truck building, the only opinion...

Expediter wannabees reading this should take it to heart. Street crime is an issue in expediting. It comes in at least two forms. One is as described above. Notice that a whole bunch of Open Forum participants, Diane and me included, can talk about this truck stop with first-hand experience...

Our odometer shows an average of 12,000 miles a month; some of which is loaded, deadhead, and simple wandering around. As with Terry's averages, any specific numbers I'd share about our team results would not mean much either. FedEx pays by percentage of the load, not the mile. Under such a...

>Better than half the tires sold are never 100 percent round. >That is the reason you have them trued. Balancing does >absolutley nothing for that correction. >While not scientific, we ran golf balls in one tire, and not >in the other on a KW. Rotated when necessary and monitored >air...

Tire manufacturers advise against golf balls. The inner lining of the tire is designed to perfrom certain functions. Ongoing contact with golf balls or any other substance is not contemplated in the design. Golf balls degrade the lining. And, yes, I am sure there are thousands of drivers who...

Bummer today, sort of. With 108,000 miles on our truck, we replaced our first set of steer tires. While the treads had 8/32" remaining, cupping had begun. Knowing the tires had only more cupping to look forward to, and being serious about keeping our truck in tip-top condition, we replaced old...

When the class 7/class 8 discussion has come up in the Open Forum before, the class 8 owners seem far more pleased with their trucks than the class 7 owners. While I am sure some can be found, I do not recall any owner-operator writing or saying he or she would go back to a class 7 truck after...

It seems excessive to me. Diane and I drove six different fleet owner trucks in three years with 300,000 to 600,000 miles on them. They were class 8 trucks with Cat or Detroit engines in them. One gallon of oil added between oil changes at 12,000 to 15,000 mile intervals was the norm with those...

Glen continues to undergo a painful and all-too-slow recovery. A few days ago he became violently ill and had to return to the hospital for a day's stay, where they treated him for the same kind of symptoms chemotherapy patients have. He has not had chemotherepy but the after effects of his...

What Leo said. The risks of truck ownership vastly outweigh the benefits you would gain by jumping in four months sooner. Use those four months to earn income in other ways and to do ongoing research to further prepare yourself to enter and succeed in the business.

Having driven the truck Rich drove for ten years, I hope he does not get the bends when he climbs into the tricked truck for the first time. Just kidding. Have fun, Rich and Congratulations, Lawrence and crew!

TeamCafe, I was not talking about you personally. Please do not take my post personally. My point, made badly it seems, is simply that if accountant A looks at a tax return prepared by accountant B, there will almost certainly be tax-strategy alternatives that accountant A can present that...

Great Falls, Montana. In service, waiting for a load offer. Delivered here yesterday (Friday) from central California.

It is always best to have an accountant that you feel comfortable with. It is also the case that most any accountant can do better than another by looking at a prior tax return and re-doing it in a way that treats expenses and deductions differently, but still legal. Depreciatiion calculations...

Thank you, RichM for sharing this information. Partners in Business is one of the best online resources there is for people seeking information about truck business planning. The price is right too. Online, it is free! The publication is jointly published by Overdrive magazine and American...

Anytime anything new emerges into a field of endeavor, or a shift in a way of doing business occurs, the established players tend to say it is not a threat. It is human nature to resist change. Pooh-poohing changes as they occur before your eyes is one form of that resistance. Virtually...

Murphy sure can make things >worse, but I always keep a positive attitude, and know that >eventually things can get better. Things can also get worse, in which case a positive attitude will make you one of the happiest people to ever fail at expediting. And in your case, you are not just...

I apologize too. It was only after we were assured the Panther drivers were OK that I commented on Rich's liability item and I was one of the first to express concern about those folks in a post of my own and in this thread. Nevertheless, I was insensitive and apologize.

Received from Janice today (Thursday). Unbelievable! Glen is home now. He was probably released a bit too soon, but he has stabilized, all IV's had been removed and medication can now be administered orally, The other piece of good news is preliminary findings of the biopsy indicate the tumor...