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Why do so many of you worry about stuff that may never happen,and if your doing your job right,won't have any problems.In all the miles Ive driven the last 27 years in expediting,including the years in the beginnning that I had an invisible co-driver,I've had many DOT checks,but only one time...

IRT happy new year,glad to see you here.Kevin,you home bringing in the new year?

no resolutions for me, but if I had one it would be to be around my granddaughter more

A woman meets an attractive man in a bar and asks him what he is drinking. Magic Beer, he says. She thinks he's a little crazy so she walks around the bar but after realizing there's no one else worth talking to, she goes back to the guy and asks, That isn't really Magic Beer, is it? Yes it...

Subj: Fw: Fwd: New Years Thoughts for a Wandering Mind -- I had amnesia once -- maybe twice. -- Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were catholic. -- I am neither for nor against apathy. -- All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. -- If the world were...

on way home with load to deliver monday.stuck in charleston wv waiting for guy to bring out new alternator,mine is trying to blow up my batteries.Its running 16 volts,sometimes 17 then everything shuts off while it resets. Decided to get it fixed here rather than drive another 225 miles home.14...

Did you know... that the words "race car" spelled backward still spells "race car?" Did you know... that "eat" is the only word that, if you take the 1st letter and move it to the last, it spells its past tense, "ate?" And have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in "illegal...

Ten Thoughts to Ponder Number 10 Life is sexually transmitted. Number 9 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. Number 8 Men have two emotions : Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich .. Number 7 Give a person a fish and you...

My co driver quit again,so I'm running solo.Loaded this morning in Oberlin OH,delivers in the morning to Dublin GA,then I reload SC to deliver Monday in Detroit.$2700 for 1700 miles,and no co driver to payc

Have you ever wondered who first uttered the phrase, "You Gotta Be Shlttin Me"? Well, it just so happens to have originated through the Father of Our Country, way back when Washington was crossing the Delaware River with his troops. There were 33 (remember this number) in...

Ive sat home with temps in the minus and when it was time to leave,truck started right up.I rarely use aditives in the fuel,never Howes,as there was a time I had problems with it..I hasve a good fuel water separator,and as long as its filter is good I have no problem As was said earlier...

In Super 8 motel for christmas week end,waiting to unload Monday morning.After unloading going to Tri State office to learn how I have been doing my logs wrong,guess just hard to teach an old dog new tricks.After that,taking co driver back home, then going to run couple weeks solo.Art is flying...

This new proposal is going to kill the income of the solo driver,us teams will work around it.In any event,can't see how this is going to help safety.

I haven't driven 11 hos or has my co since the new HOS.We only log 10 hrs each.not meaning we actually split at the 10 hr point,I shouldn't write this lol

get some real guts and get your class A.Go to work for a truck load carrier and see if trucking is really what you want to do.After a couple of years you then can decide if you want ot be an owner opp,or company driver,as far as driving down the road,what ever you choose to drive,the non...

What more you should know,running team in expediting is a plus,both in a straight truck and tractor trailer.Loads that go 600 miles,even though you may be able to do this as a solo,those loads will be given to teams. Having a class A will give you more choice in what you can drive,and there are...

I once had three tractors.The idea was if I had more trucks I wouldn't have to work as hard.What a joke.I ended up working harder.I have found the more a person makes,the less thay want to work.And in my case ,because the ones in my trucks didn't need much, they didn't work much.Not fun having...

Still digesting the 34 hour restart to see how we can make that work for us. We have run close to out of 70 hrs a couple times,but have never had more than 1 reset in any week,in fact,we usually use 1 reset a month

Before the 34 hr reset and 11 hr driving days,I use to run solo and made a good living doing the old 10 hrs driving, of course we only had to do 8 hr brakes for sleep back .

I'm in Muncie In. to deliver Monday morning,was it the money or the customer,or the 1 mile I had to dead head to pick up the load? Merry Christmas to all,and to all a good night.