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I spoke with Jeff Jones last week. He told me that all of the remaining BR-units he had on his lot have now been sold. The aging units were sold at a loss to clear out the inventory. No one at FedEx Custom Critical has contacted Jones about building more. None of the money to build or buy...

The National Bureau of Economic Research is the entity that officially dates the beginning and end of U.S. recessions. It announced today that what has become known as the Great Recession ended in June, 2009. It began in December, 2007, making this the longest and deepest economic slowdown since...

I hear that!

Slush Busters have been mentioned many times in the Open Forum but now that CSA 2010 has made nit picking today's fashion talk of the industry, I must ask, might a nit picker scale cop consider Slush Busters to be an obstruction to the driver's field of view? If installed according to the...

Most truck stops sell an air hose with a truck tire chuck on one end and a glad hand connector on the other. This enables semi truck drivers to use the truck's air compressor to inflate their tires. Glad hands can be installed on straight trucks by most any trailer shop or truck repair facility...

There are several tire inflation products and gizmos available to provide solutions to tire inflation challenges. I'm not impressed with any of them. A simple tire gauge and the willingness to use it does the job. Basic tire knowledge is also helpful. A good place to obtain it is tire...

Yet another example where common sense is not so common. If you view 100 trucks parked overnight in a truck stop, how many drivers do you see checking their tire pressure in the morning before they begin their driving day? More drivers pee on their tires than check them.

Laid over near San Francisco. Dispatched to pick up freight on Monday. Spent all day yesterday in SF but did not rent the bikes and ride over the Golden Gate bridge as planned. Found too much other fun stuff to do before we got to the bike rental place.

I don't know if it is a trend in Indiana or if you happened to get the same nit picker a friend of mine did. He was put out of service for having loose U-bolts that hold the truck body onto the truck frame. The "loose" bolts were detected when the officer used a large pry bar to find them. They...

In the San Francisco Bay Area, laid over for the weekend. Dispatched to pick up freight on Monday. Diane and I will be riding rented bicycles over the Golden Gate Bridge tomorrow. :)

I've been on this forum (on and off) for eight years and cannot remember a single time when FedEx did something that was not followed by some people saying that it meant the end of Custom Critical, the end of White Glove, the end of expedited reefer freight or the end of this, that or something...

I just remembered something else about the passenger policy. This time it worked against the company because the policy was observed. We made a delivery just after business hours at military base in the desert. A crew stayed late to unload us and quickly departed once the job was done; except...

Moderator O'Connell cannot post on his own?

It is to me sad that FedEx Custom Critical prohibits passengers as they do. It's my truck. Who are they to say who I can have in it and who I cannot? I can understand a restriction when we are under load. That makes sense. But to prohibit passengers at all times without written permission seems...

Saw tire chains on prominent display in a Nebraska truck stop today; yet another sign that winter is coming and another item to add to the check lists above. We added something else this year; a Florida vacation home. Winter driving will be different for Diane and me this year because if and...

Horner's public policy information is on his Horner2010.com web site. Click the issues link at the top of the page. Not being as politically involved as I once was, I'm not in a position to discuss or defend specifics. I am impressed with the fact that Horner's state budget proposal is --...

Nice piece. Thank you for posting it.

Same concept here, only using a KW chasis and two factory sleepers.

It is not uncommon in races where third party candidates have a genuine presence for those candidates to be strong in the polls early on and then slide down as Election Day nears. People are open to choices when they don't have to make them and then they revert to old patterns when the actual...

Having had enough politics to last three lifetimes, I rarely read or post in The Soapbox forum but am making an exception today to share news that third-party advocates will enjoy. Independent and third-party candidates face formidable challenges in any election. Just getting on the ballot...