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Awesome! Good job, Jenny!

Seat belts save lives.

Excerpt from this post: "...please do your best to get "clean" roadside inspections and avoid moving violations. That is the best thing you can do to help your company at this time. Take time to research CSA - it will make you a better driver. We all want to be better at our jobs." It...

I hear that. I hated those Turnpike electronic speed limit signs. They would change the sign from 65 to 45 for no good reason that I could ever see, and when I would slow to obey and keep my nose clean, I think I was the only vehicle on the road doing so. I wanted to maintain my perfect driving...

Truck driver in Tracy Morgan Crash was driving 65 in 45 mph zone: NTSB

Try focusing not on the plan but on the little wins you generate each day. Don't write a detailed plan of "shoulds" in advance. They just give you something to feel guilty about when they are not done. Instead, track the accomplishments as you go through the day. A medium order of fries...

When we were with FedEx Custom Critical, personal use restrictions applied. When we moved to Landstar, it was more common sense. Landstar was actually willing to acknowledge that truck owners occasionally use their trucks to move their own stuff around or to do favors for friends, neighbors and...

I don't mean to be overly harsh by using the word "fool." Whoever buys the truck will think himself or herself to be getting full value for the money paid. One would not pay the price if that was not the case.

A fool may do so but not someone who is accurately tuned into the used truck marketplace. Diane and I recently sold our truck and it was every bit the "luxury truck" as the one featured here. To set the price, we accepted our truck dealer's recommendation, listed it in the EO Classifieds...

That is an interesting point. In all the anti-truck coverage of this story, I have not seen that question raised even once.

This celebrity-involved (Tracy Morgan) major-brand (Walmart) wreck that happened in the heart of one of America's largest media markets is a PR disaster for the trucking industry. All the major news organizations are picking it up and running it in depth because in the vernacular of the trade...

There are people who have desk jobs and love them, and there are people who have desk jobs and hate them. So too with expediting. Think deeply about what it is exactly that you hate about the "B.S. corporate desk job." Is it the people, policies, unfair working conditions, lack of a fair...

Snap and Anytime Fitness gyms are usually built in strip malls where straight truck parking is usually possible. As Xiggi says, Anytime Fitness has many more locations. For both brands, and as with truck parking anywhere, it is always wise to scout out the parking ahead of time with Google Maps...

Oops! Thank you, Scott. I thought I removed the listing the day the truck sold. Obviously that was not correctly done. It's gone now.

You know better than that. You know full well that we were a top team at FCC and completely trusted by the company right up to the end, to the extent that the company vests trust in any driver. But when it came to contacting shippers and receivers directly, and you know this too, it is the...

Landstar has about 8,000 trucks on the road. Over the years there have been millions of load-confirm calls made by drivers to shippers and consignees. Nothing has happened yet that promped Landstar to take control of these calls. It is not likely that something will happen in the future that...

Truck Stop Yoga: Embrace the roar of idling engines as white noise. Hear the sound of the sea in them. Inhale deeply and experience the life force that the smell of urine conveys (and please keep your yoga mats out of the puddles). All joking aside, it is an interesting concept that you...

This is a reply to CCDriver's post in the FedEx Custom Critical forum in which only FCC people can post (thus my post here). CCDriver, your detailed post about the things FCC dispatchers do or are expected to do highlight the difference between that system and the system we immediately...

This very point came to mind a few hours after I made my earlier post. Some months ago, maybe a year, FCC announced that they were further developing their relationship with Sylectus, to include use of the software and dispatch system. The impacts of that move now seem to be coming to light...