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Will do, paullud. Thank you.

When the truck is sold, our preference will be to make a clean break from the thing and let the market decide the price. Our thought now is simply to put it on our Volvo dealer's lot and have them sell the thing. Naturally, we'll want to get the best possible price but it is difficult to be...

I originally said $5,000 to $10,000. Leo picked up on the 10. A lot of labor is involved in replacing the harness. It runs nearly the full length of the truck and has many branches. The clutch is for an Arvin Meritor Freedomline 12 speed, not a manual transmission. And the part's ain't cheap.

This is all true, but in expediting, there is a better way. Instead of learning from your mistakes, learn from the mistakes of others. It costs money to learn from your mistakes. It costs nothing to learn from the mistakes of others. When Diane and I entered this business as rookies, with no...

You are correct, runrunner. After all is said and done, we made good money with this truck.

I could say, truthfully, that in ideal conditions, this truck gets 12 mpg. But this is the real world where conditions are rarely ideal. According to the spedometer reading over the last several months, we are getting 9.3 mpg. It varies by season. It also varies by speed, temperature, altitude...

We completed our Landstar TVAL qualification in Fort Wayne this morning. Everything is good. Being close, we headed next to our favorite and trusted Volvo dealer to have a transmission quirk checked out. It turned out to be more than a quirk. Diagnosis: clutch. I guess we should not be too...

Very cool! Congratulations to John and all others who helped make this happen.

LOL! I've heard that song before but it never occurred to me to think about it in the context of leaving a motor carrier. Too funny. You are spot on in describing the difference between Landstar and many other motor carriers. The culture is so good, so respectful, so comfortable, that it did...

I'm not sure I get your meaning, but, yes, of course, all questions could be answered by calling LEA (Landstar Express America). The phone number for Landstar is on the Refreigerated Team Equipment Requirements page for which I provided a link.

In Fort Wayne getting the truck TVAL'ed for Landstar. Details here.

Landstar has moved from "will build" a temperature-controlled fleet to "is building" the fleet. Diane and I arrived in Fort Wayne today to have the Ameriscan and TVAL probes installed in our straight truck and the truck body mapped. Another truck will be here tomorrow. Other straight trucks and...

Absolutely! That's a bargain at twice the price!

For Landstar, there are no refusal guidelines and no penalties for refusing loads. There are, at Landstar Express America (the expedite division) a few small fleet owners that have a few trucks each, but I know of no special benefits that they receive. If you called Landstar Express America...

When you are outside Landstar looking in, or inside Landstar and brand new, marketing yourself to agents seems like a big thing, and in one sense it is. It is something that is not necessary at carriers that have centralized dispatch. It is something new and different. It can be scary if you...

And that's one of the reasons Landstar's dispatch system is as sane and straightforward as it is. When an agent calls to dispatch our truck, it is often the case that the very same agent is the one who set up the load and is working directly with the shipper. When it is a brokered load, the...

I was a college student in Minneapolis, no recollection of the weather or news of the day. I probably used my typewriter that day. Personal computers had not yet come on the scene. My bright-red Pontiac Firebird sat in the lot. It had an eight-track tape player. Telephones were mounted on or...