What is Real Identification?  It is where and individual verifies identity and the mailing address on the front of the Drivers License.  For the person to do this when to get a new license they provide the licenses bureau certain documents verifying the persons address. Why should we as truck drivers get a Real ID?  The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will only accept Real ID boarding domestic airline flights.  The real ID also replaces a standard Drivers Lic...

I cannot remember when I first heard the term Big Oil, but it is definitely a term that has been around for quite some time....

Every year the United States Department of Transportation looks to adding new rules to the trucking industry.  Here is a list of possible thinking that could be added in 2023 as new rules. The first one could be Speed Limiters on trucks.  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in the second half of 2023 will be publishing a proposed rulemaking and we will find out what speed they will be proposing to impose on trucks. The second one could be data being tran...

Over the last two years, the value of property damage and downtime claims has changed significantly. Why and what can you do to prepare?...

It appears to us that analog mechanical and quartz watches are not as popular as they once were.  We see fewer and fewer people wearing them.  If you see us you will find us either wearing a mechanical or quartz watch.  It is what we both grew up wearing one or the other.  Most everyone we see uses their cell phone or some type of smart watch that connects to the cell phone.  Also, have see them using a fitness wrist device also to tell the date and time. Both of us for ...

Ever wonder how United States Route Numbers were developed?  We sure did, doing research here is how the United States created the route system. Before 1926 these routes were called auto trails.  This was a very informal way of marking the roads.  They utilized colored bands on the utility poles that line the road.  The trails were maintained by individuals and also marked by the same people.  Many of these auto trails became part of the United States Routes.  Also, the...

It's no secret that inflation had a severe impact on the commercial trucking industry in 2022. Typical truck and driver shortages were amplified by exploding fuel costs and sweeping consumer prices....

Interesting title for a blog.  What does a grasshopper have to do with Longitude.  Well, read on and you will see why. Most of us all have a Global Positioning System (GPS) device.  We use it put in locations that we are going to.  What we do is not use street address when we put locations into our GPS, we use Latitude (LAT) and Longitude (LONG) coordinates.  Most locations we pickup and deliver to the docks are not at the main human entrance.  They are on a side road, ...

We all need them in our trucks.  Most of us use series 31 batteries.  So, which brand you use varies depending on each person’s preference. Our configuration in our truck is we have three Alliance and one Maxwell ultracapacitors battery.  We replace the Alliance batteries about every eighteen to twenty-four months.  The Maxwell battery is used to get the truck started if the three other batteries are run down.  The Maxwell will pull all of what is left in the three oth...

So, we are going to cover that dirty word “Cancer” in this blog.  Everyone probably knows someone or knows someone that knows someone that has had cancer.  Most families have lost a loved one to cancer.  It is a tough subject to talk about and even comprehend why do we get cancer. For us, Sandy was diagnosed in June of 2014 that she had Colon Cancer.  We had been in expediting less than two years.  Stephen was running our truck and she was still in her computer job.�...