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 c...

Baby, It’s Cold Outside! I am sitting in my living room at home watching the weather while outside it is 13 below zero with a wind chill of 30 below zero. Dave is running between the house and the semi loading up some last minute items to get us ready to get back to work. These temperatures got me to thinking… What do you do to keep yourself and your equipment warm when under extreme cold temperatures? How do you keep your truck warm to start it in cold weather? What type...

What can you say about someone who buys a brand new 2025 Freightliner Cascadia and within a month of purchase, they take an angle grinder with a cut-off wheel and deliberately cut a big hole in the sleeper roof?...

So, you’ve decided to become an owner operator. Okay, now what? In today’s society and job market, if you’ve been paying attention to what’s going on around you, you may have noticed a change in how people are making a living. Oh sure, the tried-and-true method of working a job for someone else in order to provide a living for yourself and/or your family still exists, and that model continues to thrive. But becoming a TikTok or YouTube sensation (social media influenc...

How much does fuel economy matter? Let’s look at some numbers (don’t worry, I will do the math for you)....

The statistics for small businesses are scary and disheartening to say the least....

Spare Time What do you all do when you are down for a day or more? Do you explore what’s around you? Do you look for new places to eat? This blog is going to talk about some of the things we do when we have nothing to do. Full disclosure, with a dog in the truck it does limit the amount of time that we can be gone from the truck. We have done a few things in the past but honestly, we do very little outside of the truck. If we do go somewhere, it is usually with other people...

So, we’ve closed out 2024 and ushered in a new year. 2025 seems as good a time as any to evaluate some basic truck care necessities. Specifically, taking proper care of your tires. Especially since we’ve hit the coldest and snowiest months of the season, it’s an excellent idea to be properly prepared for what weather comes your way. Commercial truck drivers, by regulatory standards, are required to physically inspect their tires at the beginning and end of a driving sh...

Mother Nature and Unexpected Holidays Mother Nature sure did put a dent in our plans for the first full week of the year. We were on our way to pick up a load when the phone rang with the news that our load had cancelled. Fortunately, we did not drive in any of the ice and snow covered roads that were on our route. The shipper informed us that they lost power and had a water leak. They wanted to address those issues before they began shipping again. Prior to accepting the can...

Oftentimes refusing to go with the status quo can yield new and better results. Just because “that’s how it was always done” does not mean you have to follow suit. Many things we consider as “how we should do something” were started by someone at some point to improve on the norm of that time....