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    It's a Team's Life Are we losing our memories?

    It has always been the case that precious photos can be lost. Printed albums get destroyed by fire and flood. Digital photos get destroyed by accidental deletion or by the loss or failure of the device on which they are stored. In these digital days, it is wise to create backups of everything...
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    It's a Team's Life Constantly looking at the future and not enjoying today

    Once upon a time, Diane and I were white-collar professionals, living in the suburbs, happy with our lives and careers. When a friend gave us our first-ever ride in a big truck, the bug bit and we began researching trucking. When we discovered expediting the deal was sealed. A few months later...
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    Looking Both Ways Constructive Thoughts for Construction Zones

    It makes a difference how people drive in construction zones, and how states manage the laws. I-95 is undergoing major construction near our home in Florida. Construction zone speed limits are reduced slightly, if at all, and most drivers fly through because you do not see troopers on site like...
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    It's a Team's Life Income Tax SHOCK

    Thanks for sharing the details. Establishing a corporation and payroll service that touches all the compliance bases (social security, unemployment, worker's comp, others if applicable) makes sense for some businesses. It also involves administrative costs and the tax impact will vary depending...
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    It's a Team's Life Income Tax SHOCK

    If you and Tina are employees, what person or entity is the employer? What person or entity pays the payroll taxes you refer to? Also, "payroll tax" is a generic term. When you speak of payroll taxes, what exactly are you referring to?
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    It's a Team's Life Income Tax SHOCK

    Generally, speaking, that's the difference between a tax accountant and a financial planner. The accountant is geared toward reducing your tax bill. The financial planner is geared toward increasing your net worth over time. The accountant's view is narrow. He or she looks mostly at your tax...
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    It's a Team's Life Team Driving

    Linda Caffee is spot on in stressing the importance of mastering your sleep as an expediter. It's a safety thing. It's a revenue thing. It's a quality of life thing. While the regulators prefer a one-size-fits-all approach to driver rest, sleep is a highly individualized experience. It pays to...
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    It's a Team's Life Small Town Attitude

    In trucking, one of the things that transformed the trucker-helping-trucker attitude into something less brotherly today is technology; specifically the smart phone. Truckers do not stop to help truckers like before because there is no need. A trucker in distress can call for help more easily...
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    It's a Team's Life Truck Storage Ideas

    Staying away from home for months at a time can create a storage nightmare only if you insist on taking more with you than you actually need. The best advice I ever hard regarding "stuff" came from an expediter whose name I do not recall. He said, "Lay out at home everything you think you will...
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    It's a Team's Life Please Stop Calling Me!

    The false assumption in the blog post that started this thread is that you somehow matter to the people making the calls or that you can somehow affect their behavior by engaging them. These telemarketers are paid professionals who begin their day with a list of hundreds of numbers to call. The...
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    It's a Team's Life Quality of Life : It's a Teams Life

    Quality of life is in the eye of the beholder. A team that values travel, tourism, family time, making friends, etc. can certainly find that in expediting. A solo driver who values solitude, self-employment freedom and living a simple life one step above that of a street person can find that in...
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    It's a Team's Life Fifty Somethings are worth their weight in gold : It's a Teams Life

    This post over-generalizes. Look at the arrest records on a daily police blotter and you will find both groups well represented. There are plenty of 50-something people out there who are no more intelligent or successful than they were at age 20 and there are plenty of 20-something people out...
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