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Glad to hear you made it through this and that you are still on your feet. Your comment about lifestyle changes prompts two thoughts: 1. One of my brother-in-laws knew a bar owner who was obese, enjoyed cigars and did no exercise beyond tending bar. He had a heart attack or blockage or some...

Since money was invented, and perhaps before, governments (even empires) and economies have been rising and falling. A study of nations that have collapsed financially over the last two centuries reveals common developments that, in the present day, are manifesting themselves in the U.S. and...

It was not Christmas Day, it was a team at Landstar, fully credentialed, fully equipped, who have learned where the good freight can be found, what agents dispatch it, and have earned the trust of those agents. Establishing ourselves within the Landstar system worked out partly the way we...

Do you have information to verify this? I have been looking carefully for statements by the players that confirm this very thing; that they are talking about personal deductions. But nothing I have seen confirms it. Yes, it stands to reason that the severe impact of a $35,000 deduction cap...

As I said, details are sketchy. A cap on Schedule A deductions would be less threatening but it would also fail to raise the kind of revenue Congress and the president need to raise to reduce the deficit. I keep searching for details about this proposal but find precious few. Yet I know that if...

I don't know that being solo or team matters. Deadhead is deadhead. When considering a load, Diane and I do not think about percentage of deadhead. We think about total miles (unloaded + loaded) and total pay for the run. It would not matter if the run was 10 percent empty and 90 percent...

I can offer a general answer to the question. It is that freight rates would have to quickly and dramatically increase to replace the money we would lose by losing deductible business expenses above $35,000. It will take a bit of spreadsheet work to figure out how much rates would need to rise.