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The melting ice caps are flooding Lake Eufaula. I drive by Lake Eufaula in Oklahoma often without stopping. This week the lake was about the highest I've seen, so I stopped at a town that I use as a gauge for my own eye-ball drought measurement. The town of Crowder is just off of US Highway 69...

Getting good fuel economy and long lasting tires and less stress on your arms and shoulders starts with a good truck alignment. Alignment seems to be one of those things we tend to overlook when doing preventative maintenance. When we have to replace tires because of poor alignment this is...

During the years out here on the road we have seen some pretty amazing storms. When I was young I lived in Arizona in an adobe ranch house with a tin roof. In southern Arizona living on a cattle ranch, rain is something that is looked upon with great joy. The sound of the rain hitting the tin...

Resume Tips and Ideas for the Professional Driver This post of Looking Both Ways addresses advantages of resume building for the professional driver. Drivers need a resume – are you serious? Very serious. The information contained in a well written professional driver resume can supply...

Truck stops are active twenty-four hours a day and there is always someone coming in or leaving. When we first started trucking the noises of trucks parking next to us or any noise next to us would have me wide-awake making sure everything was ok. In the next stage the noises would wake me, but...

Catching up from the last couple weeks. Empty nest. It only took a week and a half for the robins to go from eggs to empty nest. Mileage update. First chance to measure fuel economy on a long round trip. St. Louis to Boston and back. On the way out and empty, 26.0 mpg average with a high...

Is it necessary or not? In every truck we have owned since 2005 we have had a Carbon Monoxide/Smoke alarm somewhere in the sleeper. Some people believe that Carbon Monoxide (CO) is not something to worry about in a truck, or not worth the expense of having an alarm. So, just what is CO and how...

This is one heck of a give-away and the tires will be mounted on Alcoa Wheels The grand prize winner will receive two Michelin XZA4+ steer tires and four X One Line Energy D drive tires mounted on Alcoa aluminum wheels. In this contest, there will be two runner up winners who will each receive...

Saint Christopher Health Challenge kickoff at Great American Trucking Show (GATS) August 27,28, and 29th. You do not have to attend GATS to enter the challenge. Driven To Be Healthy General Information Interested in getting healthier, losing weight and/or exercising more? If so, join us for...

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Other projects that stick close to the van. In another of my lives, I like to make things. I don't have the room for much equipment, so I try to have a few tools on hand for the times when I can find a driveway or workbench to work at. Technically, that means the shop isn't in the van (just...

Is there quality of life as a team truck driver? While speaking at an Expediter University Workshop one of the attendees asked about quality of life as a team driver. What a great question and to me more important then "Can I make any money with that little truck?" What is Quality of Life...

Happy Anniversary, Bob and Linda!!

May 26th is a special day for us as it is our wedding anniversary. Thirty-seven years ago I would have never guessed we would own a truck and be cross-country truck drivers. Bob knew from a very young age that he wanted to be a mechanic and that is what he was when we married. At that age I...

Our truck is basically complete and now we start the tweaking. In two weeks time we added the ATDynamics Trident Trailer Tail and the Bolt Custom Trucks Flirt Skirts. We have been running the Smart Truck system and now it is time to test it against this configuration. We left the top part of...

TEANA – The Expedite Association of North America. This post of Looking Both Ways takes a look at TEANA – The Expedite Association of North America. An introduction directly from the TEANA website. READ MORE...

The Marshmallow Test is a worthwhile read. Thought that runs through head: If that person who cut me off in traffic was raised properly they wouldn't be out here trying to kill everyone. Or: How do I keep from throttling that one receiving technician at that one particular, unnamed customer...

Dave Ramsey's saying about naming dollars is how we remember where a dollar went or was spent. A financial plan is one way of giving dollars a name or a purpose. Each month a financial plan can be used for our day-to-day income and once those commitments have been met the fun can begin. What...

Why is there so much chatter on the EO threads about insurance structures right now? T Motor Carriers operate under the Traditional structure where they provide the Primary Liability for all their Owner Ops. T is being undercut by some M/I (Multi/Independent Motor Carriers) where the Owner Op...

We are trying something new at the workshop in Livonia and it is going to be FUN! Livonia Workshop Registration Thursday, May 14, 2015 5pm - 9pm Holiday Inn Detroit - Livonia This workshop is going to be a lot of fun as we are teaming up with Terry O'Connell to talk expediting and...