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...

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?...

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...