What is an OTR truck driver? Someone that travels from place to place, sometimes for days, weeks or months at a time picking up and delivering freight along their trip and oftentimes living mostly in their trucks until returning home. What is an RV'er? Someone that travels from place to place, sometimes for days, weeks or months at a time, stopping here and there along the way, usually living in their RV until returning home....

As mentioned in a previous blog, The Hole Project was a success. Cutting a hole in the roof of my new truck and installing a rooftop heat pump went as planned. What was not planned well was the unit I installed on the roof of my mid roof sleeper....

Tax Time! Business taxes will be due in the next few days. Are you prepared? I have to admit that even after many years of having to prepare business taxes March 15th always catches me by surprise. I think the main reason for this is due to the fact that we want to stay out on the road working once the new year begins. Also, we have to wait for all the documents to arrive that need to be included with the tax return. Do you know what you need to either pass along to an accoun...

Year-in and year-out, I try to set goals (not resolutions) as I shift into each and every new phase of life. And as we're already closing the book on the first two months of 2025, it seems a good time to assess just where we each reside in terms of our own personal goals and the sights we might set on our future. We all have responsibilities. We all have hopes and dreams of our own. But sometimes, the outside world can beat us down and, unfortunately, it often seems like the ...

Every day truck drivers everywhere have to deal with any number of issues on the road. Everything from tailgaters to brake checkers. Merging traffic without regard for those already on the road to that one guy who just will not make the pass and just rides beside you for miles....

Meet Mr. DeBlank, everybody knows him as Phil. Everyone sees Phil. Everyone wonders about Phil, but Phil N. DeBlank seems to wonder about nothing....

Over the years, I've engaged with many truck drivers attempting to make the jump from company driver to independent contractor. And if you didn't already know, the world of expedite trucking is vastly different from your typical truck driving career. Instead of a driver's income being determined by the number of miles run, such as in truckload, expedite is based on more of a pay-per-load structure and mentality. Also, in such cases with expedite, most drivers are considered a...

What to do, what to do? Well, if an OEM sleeper does not have the option to have a sink, what to do, what to do? Build and install one yourself !...

Career truck drivers tend to prefer the solitude of the open road. But really, who wouldn't? I mean, you get to take your work with you and make money wherever you go. No one to answer to (other than perhaps dispatch and the Department of Transportation), and you're touring the countryside while getting paid to do it. So, what's not to like about that? However, as gratifying as driving solo can be, it's often accompanied by the risk of losing out on some extra cash by limitin...

Referring to expedite as "the Band-Aid" to the trucking industry may have, at one time, been the best way to describe what it is and why it's so important to logistics management. Or explaining to a career over-the-roader that the term "expedite" signals that the freight is time-sensitive, and it must be delivered with haste, was also often used in an attempt to drive the point home. When a driver has spent all, or the majority, of their career in an over-the-road capacity, g...