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When you're laid over somewhere for whatever reason (other than under a dispatch), lets face it, you aren't making any money unless you find another way to do so. I did! For many years I was the storyteller around the campfire, captivating the listener's ear as I wove my stories. Don't ask me...

With the changes that have occurred in the trucking industry over the past years, being the changes in regulations, CSA2010, and all of the rest of the garbage, one sometimes reevaluates the direction in life they are currently traveling. Some choose to and are lucky enough to change that...

Almost four and a half years of tarping jet engines and landing gear in the sweltering desert heat, pouring down rain, snow, ice, sleet, and freezing temps. Constant popping and pain in my shoulder from an auto accident a year ago cause some negligent driver ignored the red light and plowed into...

Due to a breakdown last Friday, got stuck transporting an oversized load during the 2012 road check on our way to Cali. Load should have been delivered Monday. But after 2.5 days in shop replacing clutch in Oklahoma we headed west on 40 late Sunday afternoon. Had to shut down each evening at...

Got stopped by Porky Yorkshire of the Alabama clan the other day. Here's how it went: PY: Driver, give me your cell phone. DR: I beg your pardon sir? PY: Driver, cell phone NOW!!! DR: Why do you need to see my cell phone? PY: To see if you've been texting or talking while behind the wheel. DR...

As a spinoff from a recent thread, thought I'd post this. Why does one really choose a more expensive way to maintain a home-twenty to call their own, when other comfortable and more economic options are available. Especially for those of us that see these more expensive, high maintenance...

Petro, San Antonio,TX. Park there for the night Sunday so we can visit with our son and daughter in law who both are stationed here at the base. Backed into three times during the night by trucks backing into the space behind us and hitting our trailer. Unfortunately for us there were no...

Or should I say NEVER LET ME DOWN YOU FREAK'N GENERATOR!!! Oh nooooo! Never mind its hotter than hell here in Memphis,TN today. Onan closed until the morning. What to do in this dilemma? Go to Elvis's RV park! Yep we are parked on Jail House RD next to the pool at Graceland RV Park across...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110529/ap on re us/us fema trailers ban Its people like this that make me hate our government more and more each day. "We the people" and "for the people" means nothing nowadays to so many of them. All they care about is their own well being, votes, and taking care...

I wonder if the "Brainiacs" at the EPA [Environmental Protection? Agency] thought of this when they mandated stricter diesel emissions rules back in 2010 (see attached photo)? In attempting to save the air we breath by removing the Nox produced by burning diesel fuel, and excepting DEF...

Since there is no "Pet Forum" on this website, and I don't feel the soapbox will give this maximum exposure , I am posting the following here: Any pet owner that walks there pet dog UNLEASHED in a public place such as a truck stop is an irresponsible pet owner IMO! You truly cannot insure...

Any other time I would probably be BTCHing up a storm for sitting and waiting on a load to go. But not this time! For some reason (maybe our guardian angel was watching over us) the engine that was supposed to be ready at 11:00 am Monday morning in the Houston area did not clear for realease and...

Twas three days before Christmas and we had finished our last load, the home twenty was in our sights so it was time to get on down the road. We had a prosperous year and the home front was so near I could practically taste Christmas day dinner while I thought I only wish I was thinner! Well...

In the expeditng world we all are fortunate to have the honor of hauling some very special and unique frieght. Or at the very least extremely interesting freight. Be it vacines for desease control, a rare art collection, the latest high tech robotic for a state of the art auto assembly line, or...

Why do Christian drivers choose to display religious references to their faith such as "Jesus is Lord" or "God is not a curse word", etc if they are not going to obey the laws of the land? Does it not state in the bible that believers in God are to obey the laws of the land as long as they are...

I'm sure I'll regret posting this: Recently the XY shifter went out on our 18 speed Eaton Fuller autoshift transmission. This is the part that actually shifts the tranny from gear to gear. The transmission locked in eighteenth gear as we were approaching an exit ramp and the truck would not...

Call yourself an expediter or whatever other fancy name (other than a truck driver) you choose to call yourself. Tell everyone that you haul high value freight, not the lowly grocery warehouse freight, etc "truck drivers" haul and you do it in your fancy custom rigs. In the eyes of the...

Looking at where you are right now in your trucking/expediting carreer, do you feel that you are at the top of your game. More specifically, the carrier you are leased to, owner's truck that you drive, equipment you own, the type of freight you haul, the customers that you regularly (and not so...

Since I cannot post in the FECC forum, I'll post the following here: What TeamCaffee mentioned regarding tire capacity, meaning the design weight carrying capacity of the tire verses actual weight loaded onto the tire, is extremely important as more scales are looking more closely at this as...

Since there is no pet forum, I will post this message in the general forum for expediters that have pets on-board: Our breeder that we purchased our boston terrier Abby from informed us that another client of hers, that is a driver has had two dogs stolen from his T/T in two separate...