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Expediting is not one of anything. It is some of many things. Sometimes it is trucking. Sometimes it is mechanics. Sometimes it is customer service. And, yes, sometimes it is camping. Diane and I built our truck with the totality of life on the road in mind. By design, the front half of our...

See this thread for more about the FedEx Custom Critical reefer cargo vans: How Are the BR-units Working Out?

I'm not sure our carrier would want to put this in a newsletter, at least not until they are absolutely, positively certain that this is a permitted thing to do. I was nervous because the last I heard, the DOT does not like it very much when a driver is found with two log books in the truck...

We still need to carry log books, even with the new Qualcomm units. Example: Still getting used to the new unit, I made an entry error the other night that could not be corrected except by the HOS team at our carrier. The trouble was, that team does not work 24/7. So I was left with a...

Could Terry O'Connell have been there and left you with supplies?

It's your call, of course, Joe. I was just thinking that an empty battery box might be the ideal place to store a couple of duck decoys.

Have you thought about going without hotel (house power) batteries? I don't know your truck but might you be able to set yours up like ours? We have no house batteries at all. The truck came new from the factory with four batteries that powered everything electrical on the chassis. When the...

I agree with highway star. Diane and I regularly stay out more than 30 days a month. We are often out for months at a time without going home and have been doing that for years. Our tax CPA specializes in owner-operators and has always instructed us to take the deduction and we always have...

If you make the truck your home, it may offset some of the disadvantages of being a solo driver but it will also trigger a significant financial disadvantage that may lead you to reconsider your strategy. It has nothing to do with being solo or team but with taxes. If you do not maintain a home...

When FedEx Custom Critical specifies dock height for a truck, the box floor must be 48 - 52 inches from the ground. 48 x 48 inch pallets are not uncommon. A truck body (box) interior greater than 96" is desirable. This enables you to place two 48 x 48 inch skids side by side.

Diane and I have not seen snow fall since Christmas when we went home to Minnesota. We vacationed in Florida after that and sat out all the bad storms. Back on the road, the freight kept us south until now. We may see snow fall tonight, depending on how the storm acts. It seems our Florida...

Arguments have been made on both sides of the question by very intelligent people who are deep inside the business. I have read both sides and remain without a firm opinion of my own. Oil companies routinely explain price increases with things like supply fears, demand spikes, seasonal...

I of course cannot know for sure what is going on with your browser without looking at it but it sounds to me that you have a hijacking program lurking in your computer. Do a Google search on "About:Blank" to read about this hijacking program and others similar. Now that you are using Firefox...

Note that the futures market is a zero-sum market; meaning that for every dollar amount positioned in a buy-side contract, an equal amount is positioned in a sell-side contract. If someone wants to buy a $100 contract (long), someone else must agree to sell it (short). Without both a buyer and...

The entities that purchase our expensive services would be the same ones that purchase the services now; namely, those who ship freight that require temperature control, temperature monitoring, various forms of security, lift gates, inside deliveries, etc. Much of the freight we haul is not...

When the blank page appears, what does it say in the address bar (the place where you type a web address like www.fedex.com)?

Yes, Diane and I could stay in business if diesel prices rose to $7.00 a gallon; provided that the fuel surcharge arrangement our carrier has now would continue at $7.00 a gallon. Our carrier uses an average of nine mpg for straight trucks when calculating the fuel surcharge. The more we exceed...

I just tried ours for the first time today (only had the new device a short time). It worked fine. If you are having trouble accessing the reports, it may be due to a script blocking program, permissions your browser assigns to the Qualcomm site or similar issue.

Not that it matters much beyond it being an item of historical trivia, but to set the record straight, Jones was the top seller of Bentz sleepers in the years that Bentz was in business. That is a fact confirmed to me by Bentz himself. Jones continued the SST integrated sleeper line by buying...

That's right. Everybody is different. The fundamental flaw in both the present and proposed HOS regs is that the regs make it difficult if not impossible for drivers to manage their own biorhythms. Back when five and five was allowed, it was not a requirement. Ten and ten were allowed too...