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DougTravels, I did not know of your blog until you mentioned it here. Thank you for doing so. I will enjoy reading it. I have been blogging for a while now. The link to my blog is in my signature line below. Blogging every day can take some effort at times but at the Expedite Expo, I received...

We recently bought an iPod (Classic, 80 gig). Talk about opening a whole new world! Wow! There is nothing on an iPod that you cannot also do with other devices, but, wow, the iPod makes it so easy. Just this morning, I installed the harness we ordered to connect the iPod to the truck radio and...

My fondest trucking memory (not family memory) is getting back on the road after spending too many days at home. And, yes, Ark, you never stop missing your loved ones after they are gone.

Because if you stop on the tracks, you will be killed by the oncoming train.

Diane and I do this (expediting) because there is no work we would rather do. If there was, we would be doing that.

I hear you. The irregular hours of expedite driving does not make it easy to maintain a healthy eating routine. It can be as much a personal desire thing as anything else. Sometimes you just don't want to do anything other than grab a fast food meal to satisfy your hunger. You get tired. There...

On our reefer body manufacturer's (Kidron) recommendation, we treated our reefer body roof with Solar Guard. Since it is on the truck from the first day, we have no before/after results to report. Little info about Solar Guard comes up in a Google search; nor does a link to a Solar Guard home...

UPS was started as a on-foot and bicycle messenger service by a 19 year-old (Jim Casey) in Seattle. His slogan; "best service and lowest rates." The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Having worked both outside and inside government, and having worked personally with a number of state and federal lawmakers, governors and candidates for public office, I have observed that the people who have the power to make laws tend to pass laws that apply more to others than apply to...

Looking five years into the future, there is bad news and good news. The good news, for Diane and me personally, is we will be in fat city. Provided that we suffer no health or accident setbacks, we expect to build financial assets at a greater rate than we did in the previous five years. That...

Or, you can like your life now AND like your life in the future. As the man said, "it's all about choices." Attitude is everything. Choose, right now, to like your life today. Or to put it another way, count your blessings. Doing so puts you in a frame of mind that allows you to see positive...

Regarding satellite radio, the Sirius/XM merger seems to be going through. You might want to wait a few months to give the company(s) time to figure out their program offerings, fee schedules and equipment. I would also suggest making your radio iPod compatible. Many are that way off the...

We do not have all the information to go on here so anything we offer is speculative at best. But it sounds like the limits are coming from the fleet owner, not the team. It may be the fleet owner's expectations that are the issue. The team sounds ready, willing and eager to work.

The solar panels sound interesting. What do you know about them?

It is not easy to give specific load-selection advice because people's circumstances and needs differ. And depending on the week or month they are having, may change as circumstances change. Our strategy is similar to the Caffee's. We track our costs per mile, adjust it as fuel prices change...

I believe the Colonel borrowed the quote from me. I borrowed it from one of my college professors who says he borrowed it from Martin Luther (1483 - 1546). The quote is modified a bit. Luther was talking about Christians saying "The Lord will provide." and then waiting for the roast chicken to...

Be careful about developing a sense of entitlement to high-paying loads. Buying an expensive truck in no way obligates any carrier to come up with expensive freight to put on it. Nor does it in any way place you higher in a dispatch order when ordinary freight is the only freight available to...

The following numbers will have changed some because of the contraction now underway in the trucking industry (carriers shrinking fleets, carriers going out of business), but they still tell the large-company/small-company story. From the American Trucking Associations 2007 Facts For Drivers...

Very cool indeed! A shipper once wheeled two pieces of freight onto our truck, each strapped to a furniture dolly. Same thing. He said the dollies were ours to keep at the other end, if we wanted them. :)

If the load required 50 blankets (furniture pads), the shipper would have to provide them or the carrier would have to provide funds and additional stops to buy them. We do not carry that many. As far as the labor goes to load and secure the freight, no, we would not expect extra "hand load"...