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Good morning Badmunky, and welcome aboard . I have being a trucker for 7 years now , my truck is a Hino 338 ,96 AA with a shower , 22' box , 3.88 rears .(1900 at 60). I will try to answer some of your points and hope others will pitch in as well . 1 - turbo fialier is normally do to 2 rezones...

a most important thing to eat while on the road is VITAMINS , one a day . and get some exercise if you can. always volunteer to load/unload the truck if possible, i have spend 3 hours with a professional Dieatition (?) before getting back on the road ,and have a good diet in place , for...

WHY ??? well , I'm doing it for the Challenge of it , I guess... at the last truck show in Louisville i hade to make a choice between buying another truck and do coast to coast again for the next 5 years , or TRYING Expedite . i wanted to keep the life stayle that i had for the last 12 months...

Found at a shipper last week This Forklifts are great ! they can side load. Moose.

Found at a shipper this week ... Moose.

ATBS will mail your receipt back to your home address as you terminate your contract with them , or by the end of tax year. you can use those receipt for next year tax preparation. if all they Did is accounting , and Did not file your taxes yet , then you need to see if they will return some...

a sign at the local Pool : Welcome to our OOL Yes ,we know there is no P in it, Please see to it that it stays that way. Moose.

There was talk of a merger between the tow international Delivery agents worldwide ,until someone realized the resulting company would be called "FED-UPS" ... Moose.

Thanks Greg for your post , I Did not think about that , looks like I'm going to carry 2 blankets from now on , just in case. experience talks ... Moose.

again , someone els is typing in my laptop... i did not say that ! i was talking on hand load and blanket wrap . i have Del. lots of both , (not Expedite),sometime with good pay (Ashley of Arcadia, W.I ) and sometime for "free" (Hon Co. of Muscatine, I.A), made good money with both. by the...

hi ,Jeff... please don't put word in my laptop... i Did not say "driver duty" nor "compensation" am not familiar with either one ! all I'm saying : if the shipper is paying - that's great , "more money in the bank". it is up to the driver to accept/reject a good paying load do to prior...

Introducing the world tallest structure !!! North Dakota , I-29 , exit 100 7 mil. west . Moose.

I tell it as it is , and if we have the time , and if asked for , they will walk away with a blank copy of my business plan... a Good luck ,and a hand shake . nothing wrong with making an informed decision . Moose.

O.K ,I'm going to take OVM as an example to make my case : Please look on it this way : 2 trucks arrive to a shipper , one is getting loaded in 3 hours , the other one , is a driver load , it take 2 hours. (#2 is taking a shower...) by the end of the load, costs of Del. the load are the...

I have to agree . I have never got a good rate with OOIDA for my truck insurance, yet they have a very good rate for Occupational accident .and are offering an automatic deduction strait from my business bank account. Moose.

some people just cannot see the sun... I'm with Dreamer on this one. Moose.

Lets go back to basic : business class start at 9 : the costs of operations: will not change if one work to hand load. the time it take to Del. will not change if the shipper is loading - or the driver. look at it as exercise , there are too many trucker out there that can used some gym...

i recently had a load of 6 hospital beds going out of Omaha ,4 pads per bed . before excepting the load i made sure my dispatcher call ahead and let the shipper know that i will drop the load with the strap and pads at the hospital. i have worked for 1 and a half hours with the shipper to...

I'm very picky about my coffee , and have always made the coffee in the truck. i have 2 kinds. one is a dark grounded Turkish coffee that is keeping me up, it is bitter , extremely strong and being serve in very small amounts. you can get it just about everywhere in NYC. the other one i get...

Something tell me that this team are making good money out there... a new Sprinter , with a large sleeper, Fantastic Fan . Air tab all around , including the mirrors and top. a bug screen. and solar panels Moose.