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How often do we hear the Squeaky Wheel gets the Cheese or we make negative out of the positive? Much time is spent on the negative instead of the positive feedback or even our own good feelings over something we have accomplished. With social media when we do something the feedback is almost...

Making the switch from store bought soaps to homemade soap. I found the perfect business to purchase my homemade soap. First I like the idea of homemade versus store bought, as I know the ingredients that are used and that the soap is not mostly fillers and chemicals that are hard on my body or...

What do you do when your better-half, other-half, rotten-half, split-apart, co-driver, navigator, aggravator, bed-warmer, cover-stealer, and all around trucking companion takes a break from the truck? How many of you out there run as a team where both of you drive? How many of you are in a...

Load started out as an easy one 9600 pounds, 8 skids, use our lift gate, good pay, great scenery, 1850 miles loaded, straight through delivery. When we received the call from the agent about this load in Montana he told us we were 572 miles from the pickup and would not load till two days...

This is Disneyland's 60th anniversary and I have been waiting two years for this trip! Going with my best friend from High School. We were goofy as you can see in this picture. Having been both to Disney World and Disneyland my preference is still Disneyland. I go to Disneyland to ride the...

Just returned from the Transportation Risk Specialist conference in Orlando where Attorney Rob Moseley was one of the speakers. Every year Rob educates and amuses us as only he can with summaries of court cases and how they apply to our industry.... Here's a few highlights: READ MORE...

Drivers – I need your help to help us ALL with two minutes of your time. This post of Looking Both Ways finds a longtime driver advocate seeking the assistance of all of the drivers in our industry. Help me promote HR 3093... READ MORE...

The feeling when I sit in the drivers seat, turn the ignition switch to on, hear the Cascadia come to life. I started contemplating the other morning as I was driving in heavy traffic that was traveling fast about how the Cascadia and I act as a team. As I maneuvered around and with the traffic...

October Festivities, splattered witches on trucks, mammoth spiders that drank ninja turtles' radioactive goo, rackety skeletons, and boo beez! It's October. My favorite time of year. This is why God created truck drivers. Because only the driver gets to go all over the country and see all...

This is a fun month and as usual I decorate the truck a little. Usually I get carried away with decorations for this month but we will home for a couple of weeks so I did not gather all of my decorations. I wear a different pair of earrings each day and I have my Mickey Mouse Pumpkin on the...

I got to thinking. Scary right? Trust me, Allen opened the windows to let the smoke out of the truck. Life moves at lightning speed. The older we get the faster it seems to speed by us. "Wasn't Christmas yesterday," we ask ourselves? "Wait, it's my birthday again?" When you're out on the...

I got to thinking. Scary right? Trust me, Allen opened the windows to let the smoke out of the truck. Life moves at lightning speed. The older we get the faster it seems to speed by us. "Wasn't Christmas yesterday," we ask ourselves? "Wait, it's my birthday again?" When you're out on the...

Agent calls with a load involving nine stops, unwrap the freight, and an inside delivery. Are you interested? First question is "How much does the load pay?" Load pays very well which means there is going to be some work involved. Next "What is the weight?" answer less than 1000 pounds. Next...

Calls from people wanting to sell us something is enough is irritating to say the least. Sitting here today, I was enjoying a nice calm afternoon when my phone rang. My first thought was, who would be calling me at this time, maybe an agent with a load, awesome. Alas, it was an automated...

You have to stop and smell the flowers, the coffee, the ocean, the mountain breeze, or the hot throwed rolls. This past week has been National Truck Driver Appreciation week. Many companies have had sponsored family events such as cookouts for their drivers. Others have given bonuses, gift...

There are times when we cannot get out of the truck to walk and we have our in cab solution. While at the Great America Truck Show we added The Fit System Stepper. The Fit System all ready has a home in our Cascadia and this addition is really going to help us get more exercise. We are often on...

This week has been National Truck Driver Appreciation week. Many companies have had sponsored family events such as cookouts for their drivers. Others have given bonuses, gift cards, even vacations to their employees. There have been quite a few companies who have sponsored giveaways online all...

The first response is usually, "Duh 3:00 o'clock" and then someone feels foolish after they learn some lessons from the Disney culture. Have you heard of the Disney Institute? If not it is something worth researching and reading the blogs for a different mindset. This is a little history on why...

How much is your time worth? If on a flat rate plan does that cover your time sitting at docks or if on a percentage time does that cover time sitting at docks? After a good day at the Great American Trucking Show, we went over to Fair Park where Randall - Reilly, the owner of the show, had...