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    It's a Team's Life Beautiful Tree-Lined Streets

    BEWARE those beautiful streets can be deadly to your truck. The tree’s limbs dragging across the box can damage the logos or the exterior of the box or poke a hole into the box. We have been very lucky over the years to not poke a hole in our freight box but we do end up with scratches. READ...
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    Fuel for Thought Time Management

    Time management could be one of the most critical aspects to success in trucking. Equipment, customers and good paying loads are vital to your success, but without proper time management, it could be all for nothing. Drivers want to have affordable, reliable trucks, and while the truck is a...
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    Please post your ad in the classified section. Driving Jobs, Trucks For Sale, Trucks Wanted
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    It's a Team's Life Offended Easily?

    While debate and sharing of ideas can be fun and even enlightening the direct insult can have us fuming. The following saying caught my attention and is a good reminder that if you are active on social media or forums, you can choose to ignore or come unglued and let your fingers get carried...
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    It's a Team's Life Dining In

    Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have not seen many restaurants open for sit down dining. I wonder how many will open as they were or if fast food with little seating will become the norm? Is the traditional truck stop restaurant with the drivers counter a thing of the past? Our one...
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    It's a Team's Life To Each Their Own

    A business’s goal is to make money and not all of us follow the same path to reach the end. To figure success or failure is to know how much money you keep at the end of the year. This is where the goal can get tricky as my idea of how much money I kept at the end of the year might not match...
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    Common Sense* Call For Common Sense

    Do you have some words of wisdom to share? Are you a seasoned driver with some helpful advice for others? Would you like to help new drivers learn about unwritten rules of the road? READ MORE...
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    Fuel for Thought Encroachment

    Having gained the intestinal fortitude to interject oneself into another’s affairs with the intent of encroaching on their patron, one can find themselves with a rueful countenance. Interlopers are generally not well received. READ MORE...
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    It's a Team's Life Flash Me

    Using your 4-ways or emergency flashers every time you back up, warning others of traffic slowing, or when stopped not in a parking stop should be mandatory in every driver’s book. Using the trucks, 4-ways is like setting out an orange cone; it warns others of danger, or something is about to...
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    Fuel for Thought Facts or Falsehoods?

    Studies can be found for almost anything. We spend a lot of time and money studying everything in our world and even many things not on this planet. READ MORE...
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    It's a Team's Life Acknowledge Your Mistakes

    Recently a pickup pulling a trailer about took the front of our truck off, and I honked at him... What happened next was unusual as a hand came out of the window and waved big with all of his fingers pointing up. I took that to mean he realized he messed up and was acknowledging his mistake...
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    Fuel for Thought Dine and Dry?

    Most drivers know about the truck stop lunch counter. Some love it and some avoid it at all costs. Over the years it has become known as a place to not only get a bite to eat, but also to get a heaping helping of embellished stories with a side of outlandish claims and all of it peppered with...
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    It's a Team's Life Changing World - A look back

    At the time of this writing, we have been home ten days, from March 10th and leaving today, March 20th, to pick up a load going to Tennessee. During our time at home it seems that the world is changing by the hour, and not for the better. We were home to get a few things done before heading out...
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    It's a Team's Life The Lone Toilet

    While driving in California recently, I saw something that made me look twice and then once again. Over to my right was what looked like an outhouse with a porcelain toilet facing the highway with no door. The glistening white of the toilet was unmistakable inside the small building. Where is...
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    Common Sense* History

    These are the original seven wonders of the world.... I mention these to show that even though all but the Great Pyramid of Giza are gone, we still know about them. Destroying historical monuments and buildings does not erase the past. READ MORE...
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    It's a Team's Life Secure that Pallet Jack

    Bob created a video of how to secure a pallet jack while empty. Due to the nature of our business, we need to carry a pallet jack. I hear about pallet jacks because they are difficult to restrain when not in use going down the road. Some strap it to the wall, and others have a device that you...
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    Fuel for Thought To Mask, or Not To Mask, That Is The Question.

    Many people debate whether masks work for filtering a virus, or how well it can filter anything. There are plenty of staunch supporters for their beliefs in whether masks are effective at stopping a pandemic or not. Just as with political affiliations and religious beliefs, each side has dug in...
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    It's a Team's Life Which vehicle are you driving?

    While driving on I-5 in the Los Angeles California area minding my own business in the slow lane I watched as smaller vehicles zipped this way and that way in front of me. My route took me from Grapevine down to Santa Ana, and I was able to witness a lot of craziness as well as drivers...
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    Fuel for Thought Sliding Tandem Trailer Axles

    Sliding tandems can be a regular occurrence for many tractor trailer drivers. Straight truck expediters may have a liftable axle, but there is not any sliding of axles. Where and when you slide tandem trailer axles is important. While you might not think much of it, please consider your...
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    It's a Team's Life I need something from Amazon before we get home

    We can run all over town in the truck looking for a certain item or we can have it shipped to a truck stop... When away from home for months, it has become easier to purchase and have an item shipped to a location we pick and know it will be safe until we can retrieve our purchase. Have you...
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