I read this forum and others and am constantly looking for good trucking information. I think a starting point would be to give an honest and fair assessment of what YOU are doing with YOUR truck. (i.e. how many miles you are averaging, what is your median revenue per mile including deadhead, how long are you sitting, and what company do you work for.) You can easily hide your identity if you are afraid of backlash. I have been trucking since 1984, always as an O/O, from class 8 to expediting. The people i have seen that have done well in trucking, have been the ones with the right attitude, that discipline themselves to manage thier business. They don´t whine. If you are going to make the big bucks ( above average), you have to be willing to stay out and run weekends etc.) If you want to be home, find a regional or local company that will accomplish that for you, and accept the pay that offers you that opportunity ,as an example. The unsucessful truckers are those that spend $50 dollars a day on truckstop video machines, continually turn down loads, and in general, shoot themselves in the foot with thier business decisions, and money management. To sum up, each of us needs to decide what his or her priority is, and find a company that will accomodate that most closely. Trucking is very competitive. No company is perfect. That´s where the honest assessment comes in. An exchange of good information, about the companies we all lease to is invaluable. Don´t air your personal beefs, and throw stones for personal grievances. If you don´t like where you are, for whatever reason, take the hit, and move on! The information we all can provide each other will help in the decision process. In my case, that´s what i always did. Move on. But i never left a company because i thought they were a bad outfit. I left for reasons like i didn´t want to load and unload, or tired of appointments, or not enough freight for my tastes. In all cases , the companies that were losing enough drivers for a specfic reason ,renovated to attract and keep good drivers, were losing revenue to the point of necessary change, or went out of business. I didn´t have to stay during thier renovation process. My choice. My truck. Bottom line. I am taking time off right now, to do some personal things. In the spirit of what i have just said, i can tell you that my last company (that i will go back to, if i stay in expediting) was TST. My wife and i ran a "D" unit, and averaged about .90 cpm. All miles. They paid tolls. They paid practical miles. Not household, or rand. That gave me more money every trip, as with the other plans i always ran 50-100 miles over the miles paid. They were fair, and open door. Most importantly, we made money, and we took time off as needed.