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Additional info about the accident and random thoughts about it: 1. We were behind the truck that hit the car and the first to arrive on the scene. Parking our truck on the shoulder with flashers on secured the scene (to use a term that rose in the thread) for the moment. The car was in the...

Put yourself in this truck driver’s place. If something like this happens to you, are you prepared? This is a true story. We found ourselves in the middle of it today, as witnesses. Rural Kentucky. I-71. Light traffic. 10:30 AM. Dry roads. Moderate cross winds. Mostly cloudy skies. Road...

We recently had a liftgate failure in Dallas such that the truck could not be driven and stranded us on the road. A call to the Leyman HQ for help produced a referral to a Dallas dealer, W & B Service Company. A human being answered the phone when I called. The service manager there, Scott...

We've been to that Freightliner dealer in Tampa. Based on my experience there, if I found myself broke down in their parking lot again, I believe I'd be money ahead to have the truck towed someplace else.

>Whether it is intentional or not it has only been roughly a >couple of months since your claims of making $3.00 per mile >and then retracting it. >You content and delivery is usually what is questioned. >An example of this is; > >ATeam wrote >The implication that your trucks are doing...

>Sorry about your loss. > >But I have a really dumb question; I thought there were very >few exceptions (training, licensing, emergencies) for more >than two people in the cab underload by DOT regs. Maybe I >heard wrong and for some reason it sticks in my mind as I >thought I heard it. I...

Readers of this thread will be intersted in another thread about Freightliner service too: http://www.expeditersonline.com/dcforum/DCForumID16/1107.html

Allow me to add, by the definition of success I gave above, Diane and I were failures in 2005, relative to the financial goal we set. We do not consider ourselves top producers by any means, and I never said so in this thread. The top producers I speak about are other people whose income level...

>For example, tomorrow morning we pick up a WG load in Texas >to deliver to Washington DC. Just an update regarding that load. We lost it. After picking up the courrier and making two stops to pick up the art work, a hydraulic hose on the lift gate burst, leaving the liftgate on the ground...

Tennesseahawk wrote, ">That's great that you post your 10 smallest runs. It's good >that you warn ppl that bankruptcy can and does happen. I >guess the point is, you encourage ppl to throw caution to >the wind. The "you can buy a $100,000 truck and make your >fortune in expediting"...