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A driver asked me the other day if I had heard of any solution to legs and hands swelling. While I have not encountered this problem it intrigued me on what could be done to help this situation. I expected to find a lot of information about salt intake and to avoid salt but that was not the...

Who would have guessed in 1978 that two seventeen years olds getting married would still be married 36 years later? Another year has passed and we are celebrating our anniversary. Terry O'Connell really summed up the meaning "Team...

This is the result of my trolling strategy going into the past week. Last week I was trying to decide how to move north and at the same time find freight. The plan was to move to Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday evening. Midday Monday...

When, Where and How we have met people out on the road create a lot of fond memories. We are stopped today at a Wal-Mart where we met up with another couple to have Mexican food at a location they had found nearby. This couple we...

Navigating all obstacles during RoadCheck 2014. This post of Looking Both Ways is all about the upcoming Roadside Inspection Blitz known as Roadcheck 2014. Learn how to be successful navigating our nation’s highways as an expedite driver or owner operator during this law enforcement road...

Lisa and her husband Terry contacted us many years ago about getting into expediting and through that initial contact we became friends. We often met while out on the road and we all shared a common love of animals and our lives as expediters. Terry and Lisa traveled with their Basset Hound...

Decisions, decisions… I can’t really call it slow yet. I haven’t been in service enough to have a bad string of weeks, but this is the first weekend in months that I didn’t have some kind of work, like a Saturday delivery or Monday...

Nothing stays the same EVER... The world keeps turning and the sand keeps shifting. Whenever stepping out to the edge in business or contemplating a change we often hear the sky is falling, the world is coming to an end, as we know it, and many doom and gloom prophecies... When we made the...

Back in service, Florida. Front row seats. First load back in service. 800 miles to Destin, Florida. READ MORE...

I haven’t been slacking off. Honestly. For a few years I’ve considered the idea of buying small pieces of property scattered across the expedite world. Some with structures, some just vacant land. Then I could just pop over to my nearest plot instead of always trying to hit one moving target...

This is the second in a series of workshops and we are looking forward to an educational evening. Each time we have attended one of these events we come away with more knowledge then when we went in. We look forward to meeting new people who are considering expediting and hope to meet...

I forgot what clear vision was like until I replaced the windshield. The original windshield lasted 580,000 miles. Seven years of pitting and abrasion weathered the glass so slowly I didn’t realize how hazy the view was getting. A heavy chunk of rubber fixed that. READ MORE...

Hey - Listen up! EO University is coming to the Cleveland Ohio area for the first time! Come get your degree! This post of Looking Both Ways is all about Expediter’s University and the upcoming workshop in Strongsville (Cleveland area) Ohio on May 15, 2014. Please join us from 5pm to...

So after approximately 1,425,000 miles traveled as team drivers do I still get excited? This year we pushed out how long we stayed away from home due to weather conditions. We usually plan on home time every two to three months but this time we went almost four months. We are perfectly...

Read no farther if you aren’t interested in $30 water bottle. I’ve been watching this bottle for a couple years and finally decided to get it. A company called Guyot Designs originally produced it, but they didn’t keep up with demand, so it was usually a backorder item across the internet. My...

Our niche in the trucking industry is to keep a plant productive until a tractor-trailer arrives with the amount of product a customer needs. Our load usually consists of a couple of pallets that comes nowhere close to filling up our box. In ten years of Expediting I can only think of a...

Understanding the intimate relationships between you, roadside inspections, CSA, PSP and ISS scores. This post of Looking Both Ways is about roadside inspections, moving violations, crashes and how they affect you and your Carrier. We are now a couple years into CSA and many drivers and...

Finally Bob is happy with his skirts... Everything came together this time while we were home and Bob was able to finish the skirts on the truck. When we arrived home we first took the truck for its various appointments to have some maintenance service work done. READ MORE...

Out of service—brakes. For April I’ve been out of service almost as much as I was in service for March. It’s still been a productive month. READ MORE...

We are home for two weeks and we are making the most of it. Home time involves a mixture of work and fun and so far we have been enjoying both. Bob has been working on the skirts for the truck and getting that project finished. He has a few other odds and ends he wanted to get accomplished...