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Onan. Yes, we'd buy it again. Very pleased with this product. It has performed well for seven years. There have been repairs along the way but all were done right the first time by Onan dealers or ARI, the sleeper manufacturer who installed the generator.

Joe, It's what successful business people do. The HOS rules have changed but the basics of profit and loss have not. Everyone WILL pass their increased costs on to their customers or they will fail. If you are unable to raise your prices at your present carrier, you need to find another one...

New HOS rules went into effect on July 1, among them new rules that affect the 34-hour restart. It is now mid-August. How goes it for you under the changes? Before the new rules, it was easy for Diane and me to do a restart (take 34 hours off-duty or in the sleeper to start a new seven-day...

It is funny, but be careful Moose. You may run into someone who takes your conversation seriously and calls it in. Some truckers (including expediters) are trained to do exactly that. They even carry hotline numbers in their trucks to which to call and report a suspicious conversation like the...

True for some drivers, maybe, but not for all. Diane and I were happy and felt fairly treated by our former carrier for six of the 6.5 years we were with them. But when policies changed not to our advantage, we left for a carrier does not have such policies. We were not trapped at the former...

Indeed we are getting older, and short of suicide, there is nothing we can do about that. Physically, it means we have to work harder to be fit than when we were younger. We can't get away with eating whatever we want whenever we want. We can't leap out the back of a dock-high truck without...

I sometimes wonder if these tellers of tall tales regard it as an art form and source of entertainment, both for the teller and listener. I read once where mountain men of an earlier time in American history would occasionally gather and when they did, many tall tales were told. The truth of...

That's the supply and demand theory and I wish you were right but you are presenting the theory on an assumed all-other-things-being-equal basis. All things are not equal, so while the theory works well in isolation, it is not working in practice. The exact same theory was voiced with every...

That happens more often than you would expect. Just a couple weeks ago, we brought a shipment in that the shipper was in a big hurry to get out and the consignee was frustrated because he already had a warehouse full of the stuff. This was for a big company and the people who receive the stuff...

Glen just called me with an update. He is still in the hospital and expects to be there for a day or two yet. The doctors are developing a plan to deal with several issues, all of which are going on at the same time. He was articulate but a bit weak. He is not talking about the afterlife any...

A list would be helpful but not the end-all, be-all. At the same shop you might get a good mechanic once and a bad one later. Or the good mechanic may be having a bad day. Management changes, staff changes. It would be difficult to keep the list current and accurate. You are already developing...

Our non-delivery event happened with our former carrier (FedEx Custom Critical). On that run, they paid full rate for the return after talking by phone to the shipper. We did not have to ask. They just did it.

One possibility is that he was hiding from someone else; ducked under your truck quick so as to not be seen.

This is from Jan's (Glen's wife) Facebook page: Glen is not in ICU. Yay. But he is hospitalized at Parrish Medical Center in Titusville. He was hosp in May for blood clots, at which time they dissolved them & implanted a mesh filter in the vein to prevent more from entering the lungs...

In ten years of expediting, we have never had a consignee refuse a delivery. It did happen once that no one was present to receive a delivery. Dispatch made calls and within an hour we were paid full rate to return the item to the shipper.

About the ability to drive the speed limit up to 70 mph, yes, a tandem-axle straight truck can do that. The dump trucks and garbage trucks you speak of are geared for heavy loads and/or city driving. Our tandem-axle straight truck easily cruises at highway speed, as do all other tandem-axle...

While it does not look good at first glance, there are a lot of reasons why the customer might load that trailer. Unless all details are known, we should not be too quick to judge. Speculation: - The incident may have happened on the way to the pickup and all parties are aware. - The load is...

You can watch the bleeding (growing red roads) on this traffic map. We're southbound on I-295 and missed all the fun. Whew!

"As of 1:19pm, there's an Overturned tractor trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike northbound South of Interchange 7A - I-195 in Hamilton Twp. All lanes blocked" If you have freinds in NJ, let them know. Big mess in store.

These devices are not new. They have been seen on some semi-trailers for a few years now. I have not heard driver comments about how these things are to work with one way or another, but drivers using them would not be hard to find and ask. One driver posted this account of them here.