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Fall is typically a very busy season for us and I know we are asked to not go out of service if we can keep from it usually starting in September and continuing through December. We sure have no complaints on the freight rates we have been seeing.

Thank You for posting your thoughts and your experience with Expedite Services. When a new person is looking into this industry they need information so they can do their own research. Expedite Services is offering a variety of packages that some people will find helpful from starting out as a...

Dan Burges CPP, Senior Director of Intelligence at FreightWatch International will join us on August 17,2011 at 3 p.m. EST. Dan will share the most up to date statistics on freight theft and also give us the benefit of his experience on how to best protect ourselves against freight theft in the...

FedEx pays FSC on all dispatched miles and they pay a percentage of tolls on dispatched runs. The key to decide whether to accept or decline a load is to look at the pay and look at the miles. If the pay is high enough to meet your requirements for pay per mile or what you need for day pay...

That is so exciting for you and I am sure you are very proud parents. Congratulations! I know the pride and amazement I feel when I watch our girls do something special that I could never have accomplished or have been that good. I look at them and wonder where in the world did they get...

Bob clarified that we have not been running the tires 5 years it is closer to 4 years. The tread depth gauge is used often on our tires and the tire wear indicated we would reach the 600,000 mile mark. Our wear rate per 15,000 miles indicated we would get should get close to the 600,000. We...

Phil there is not a perfect tire on the market. Each has plusses and minuses. The fuel mileage we see with our wide based singles far out weigh carrying chains to fit the tires. The automatic chains weigh way less then the throw chains. That is an old post on the winter Canada issue...

We have been running wide base singles for approximately five years. No problems. We have them on our drives as well as our pusher axle. When we bought this truck we exchanged the duals the truck came with for wide base singles. We run Michelin XOne XDA Energy We run the Pressure Pro...

Have fun! Take pictures and someday I plan on us being able to post we are doing this. Very cool cannot wait till you come back and tell us about your trip.

That is a nice web site... Good Job! I hope we can be there.

I do not know of any companies that allow guns in a truck and as a truck owner we would not have a gun in the truck with the laws the way they are. We also go to Canada and I believe that is a felony charge having a weapon in the truck.

FedEx has the same policy NO GUNS. I also wish we could carry our guns for a different reason. Bob and I like to shoot clay pigeons and i am learning target shooting. It would be a great past time.

I think a gun is a gun...

I thought this was a very good article: OOIDA’s Land line: Georgia trucker arrested in NY for carrying gun without permit By Clarissa Kell-Holland, Land Line staff writer A truck driver from Georgia was arrested in upstate New York recently after admitting he was carrying a 9 mm gun in...

Hey your expediting now! Will you be at GATS? If so stop by and say Hi! We will either be at the truck, working on workshops, helping with the blood drive, or I will be in the Women in Trucking Booth.

Hi Chris glad you are posting lots and lots of information on the forums!

I get most of my books from Audible and download them to my I-Phone for convenience and this works great. I have found I cannot listen to a book and do nothing so when stopped I like to read a book. I do not have a Kindle yet but it is in my future. I have a Sony E-Reader and have found many...

I agree with you clutter drives me nuts in the truck. I do not like tripping over things nor not having room to set something down on a surface. I also do not like anything on the dash as the reflection in the glass distracts me. That is what we also do with our paperback books as why not...

We live just north of Saint Louis and we can go three months without going through the city! Amazes me how often we miss it and just have to head for home. As a solo I think you would be able to get home more often as you would probably have good loads in Chicago as well.

Ray I had an aha moment a few years ago on how much our lives depend on our heaters working. We were up north and our generator started to gel and my thoughts went crazy with "what if" our generator and our truck were to both gel when the wind chill is in the negatives? What if our pet was...