Do You Use AI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more common every day. Is AI something you use personally? Do you use it in your business? I have to admit that at first I was nervous about using the new technology. Lately, I have found it useful for both business and personal uses. In business, I have found that it helps me to put my thoughts together in a more professional way. Some might say that the work is no longer mine. I will politely disagree. Remember when yo...

A trucking career ages in one of two directions. Some drivers come into the industry with a sprint mentality. They run hard, grab every load, chase every mile, and try to squeeze the most money out of every week. It feels good at first. It feels like momentum. It feels like ambition. But the road has a way of showing you the limits of that approach. The body starts to tighten. Sleep gets shorter. Stress gets louder. The job becomes something you endure instead of something yo...

Autonomy is one of those words that gets tossed around in trucking circles like everyone agrees on what it means. But out here, running freight in a straight truck with your name on the door, autonomy isn’t a slogan. It’s the oxygen of the job. It’s the difference between feeling like you’re steering your own life or just riding along in someone else’s schedule....

Stability in trucking does not mean regularity, it means consistency. Transportation is tied to market forces which tend to run in cycles, like everything else. Consistency in trucking is recognizing cycles and planning for them. When you choose your loads at random and don’t know your numbers for Cost Per Mile (CPM) or your daily rate needed to be profitable, planning for down markets is nearly impossible....