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Not particuarly happy with this week. Did a long run from Tacoma, WA to San Antonio, TX at a marginal rate and we're still in San Antonio now. I'm not blaming our carrier or the freight. Load selection blunders put us where we are. Taking the load to San Antiono may have been a mistake. We...

I don't know these two but it's nice to hear of a team who is retired and doing well. It's nice to see that it can be done.

Working through the pile of trucking magazines that builds up at home when we are on the road, I came across today the Land Line Magazine article about the Trucking Solutions Group (Land Line, Aug/Sept, 2011). I have to tip my hat to the Caffees and others in this self-starting, self-appointed...

In the scenario you present, what price should the dealer set so as not to be deemed greedy and so as to not fleece the buyer? More to the point, who gets to decide that the dealer is in fact greedy and is fleecing the buyer? Injecting moral judgements into a financial transaction complicates...

I guess I see it as more straightforward. A dealer is in the business of selling trucks. When he or she gets a used truck to put up for sale on the lot, it has to be priced. The dealer can price it at $40,000 and it will sell, or the dealer can price it at $50,000 and it will sell. To me, it is...

I guess they will have to put time locks on the bags passed out at fast food drive-through windows.

Why do you hope the trucks rust on the lot? If you had a truck to sell, would you not act the same and charge as much as the market will bear? Say you bought a truck for $35,000 and because of market changes could now sell it for $50,000. Say also that you wanted to sell the truck? Would you...

I realize that much of this place-in-food-chain talk is made in jest but not everyone may get the joke. While there are many ways to run an expediting business, is it wise to sort people into classes in expediting and rank them one over another? It seems to me that puts people down more than it...

Land Line story here; the story includes a link to a related story in the Christian Science Monitor. Map below shows the Rio Grand Valley where these incidients are on the rise.