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Ahh yes; the book. That thing that does not need batteries, never has to be booted up, does not break when you drop it, can be shared with or gifted to a friend without permission from the person who sold it to you, and stores information for a thousand years in a format that is as good...

A valid point of view you have. It illustrates well the fundamentally different approaches. In our truck, our movie viewing (lectures), GPS, phone calling, music listening, e-reading, etc. tend to be done on single-purpose devices dedicated to these specific tasks. The other approach is to...

Audacity? How about helpfulness? How about skill? My wife is an attorney and knows a thing or two about contracts. Many fleet owners don't have a clue. We chose expediting and later became owner operators. I can think of numerous scenarios where the legal skills we bring to the table could be...

There is no score card per say but you can view your CSA points through the FMCSA Pre-Employment Screening Program. You can view them quickly by paying the $10. I belive there is a way to view them for free but it takes more work and time. If you believe there are errors on your report, they...

When a six year old tries something and fails, a parent will often comfort the frustrated child by saying the kid did his or her best and that makes the parent proud. When a high school football team plays its heart out but finishes the season with a pathetic record at the bottom of the...

The freight took us to Florida today. Out of service for a few days to get our Florida vacation home ready for our January stay.

It does not matter how much you know about maintaining a truck, there is always more you can learn. You will never learn it all so start with the things that fail most frequently that you can work on yourself. Your truck lamps are such a thing. If you don't know about them, learn. Learn by...

Don't forget the cost of required things like DOT inspections and reefer maintenance if have one. These are not carrier fees per se, but you might do them differently if the carrier was not there to say otherwise.

No one is going to fight your battles for you. It takes time, effort and money to bring a civil case against someone but unless someone goes first, there is no safe way to deal with the issue in public. Once a case becomes an item of public record, it can be talked about in a careful manner to...

I have looked into this further and found nothing that counters what you say above. A speeding ticket issued without an inspection form would not count as CSA points. All information reported to CSA is through MCMIS. The ticket will of course show up on your MVR.

We have reached the point in a thread like this where FedEx critics are about to rise, as they do whenever FedEx gets negative press or something changes within the company. To save them the trouble, allow me to offer this. Notwithstanding the fact that the package was found and was not...

As Leo said, space conservation is one benefit, as is picking up instantly where you left off. Diane and I have his and her Kindles and the paper books are rapidly disappearing from our truck. A good-size cabinet that used to hold books will be nearly empty after we get home for Christmas. It...

I am a Kindle enthusiast too. No book I have downloaded to my Kindle has been removed. In addition to downloading a book directly to your Kindle, you can download it to your computer and then plug your Kindle into the computer USB port and transfer the book to the Kindle. If a book ever did...

If that was the case, a FedEx spokesperson would not have commented. Turtle said it well: " Much ado about not much, really." I was once a seasonal worker at UPS when I was a college student. This was before the modern era and the sorter (me) had to memorize a bunch of zip codes that...

You might want to read again what I said. I said that it sometimes happens that dispatch calls fleet owners for help in getting loads covered. I did not say that fleet owners made Diane and me take the loads. In fact, they did not. Your experience with your fleet owner may be different. I'm...

melanieanne is not wrong, but she is not entirely right either. Diane and I drove fleet owner trucks for three years before buying a truck of our own. It sometimes happened that we declined a load offer and the fleet owners called us about the load because dispatch called them. But in our...

OK. I read the info and cannot point to information that says otherwise, but it seems counter-intuitive that something like a speeding ticket would not include CSA points. In the interest of clarification, answer me this, please: Say you happen to drive through a small town and miss the speed...

Have you seen it too? 1. The repeat load offers that we complained about a while ago seem to have stopped. Now we see an offer once and if it is declined, we don't see it again unless the pay is bumped. 2. The new crop of dispatchers that were brought in several months ago seem to have hung...

It will take more than a healthy dose of ex-lax to move that feast through. Thanks for the chuckle. Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Moot!

I would consider it very unfair if events developed as you describe above. Let me cite a real-world example. Diane and I were once in Phoenix at the Flying J with a bunch of other expediters. One team we knew well. They were from Florida and dearly wanted to get home for a reason they felt was...