Does it seem like good fortune happens to others while you are always having less than desirable outcomes happen to you? Are these things happening to you or by you?...

Accident liability plays a crucial role in determining the outcome of downtime claims, especially for individuals seeking compensation for lost income and wages after an accident....

Hope from Mother Trucker Yoga (MTY) is asking for input in a survey about what drivers would like to see inside their trucks for health and fitness.  Please take the time and provide input. Hope wrote: "In the high-paced world of trucking, the health and fitness of drivers often take a backseat. Long hours behind the wheel, irregular sleep patterns, limited food options, and the sedentary nature of the job compile to create a challenging environment for maintaining a healthy...

Numbers Review We are just over half way through the year. What do your numbers look like? Do you track your revenue? How about your expenses? Do you track your fuel economy? What about your rate per mile to the truck? All of these numbers will tell us how our truck is performing as well as how our business is doing. If you do not track any of these numbers, how can you know if your business is growing or about to go broke? While this year has been a challenge for many of us,...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has released the new date for the speed limiter rule for heavy duty trucks.  They are now saying May of 2025 is when to expect to see it.  We first wrote about limiters in Jan 2023 and you find that article here:  Possible New Trucking Rules for 2023 Here is the abstract from the Regulatory Affairs website on the proposed rule.  “FMCSA intends to proceed with a motor carrier-based speed limiter rulemaking by prepar...

Driving can certainly have its challenges some days more than others. As the years and miles roll by, you start to recognize patterns or behaviors from other drivers that can indicate to you that a particular vehicle is about to do something that even the driver may not be aware they are about to do....

Vacation Time! So many of our trucker friends talk about the cruises or other vacations on which they have gone. When we take time off we really do not do much of anything except work around the house or visit with family and friends. So what do you do with your time off? Do you hop on a plane to some exotic location? Or do you stick close to home like us? Or maybe a combination of both? We just wrapped up two weeks off the road. The last week of June we did our annual campin...

Even before the driver-dreaded ELD mandate and enforcement of electronic logs, there was already an uneasy period of time in which drivers were either scared to death of what was the unknown world of satellite tracking and monitoring, or just brazenly naïve as to how damaging an unkempt HOS (Hours of Service) logbook could be in terms of determining their next trucking employer. How It Used To Be It used to be quite common that commercial drivers were once considered the rul...

With no Expedite Expo this year that means we do not need to do a pre-show and post-show article.  That got us to thinking how about looking back over the years we have been to the show and do some reminiscing.  We thought it would be best to break this up into two articles.  This one will be from 2021 to 2023. If you missed part 1 years 2012 through 2017 you can find it here:  Expedite Expo Revisit From Years Past Part 1 If you missed part 2 years 2018 through 2020 you c...

LET FREEDOM RING! The Fourth of July gives us the opportunity to celebrate the freedoms that we all enjoy. While there are many inside and outside of our country that are trying to take our freedoms away, the truck drivers that I have met believe in the freedoms that our country affords us all. As independent contractors we can appreciate the freedom to have a business and work in that business in a legal and safe manner. Lately, there are some who are trying to take away our...