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The Grainger store I visited today did not have the cleaning products display I remember seeing once before. The clerk recommended out of the catalog a truck wash product made by Zep. I did see a degreaser product in the store that is available in quantity and suitable for engine cleaning. It...

It should always be strictly business. Regardless of what led up to your DHPU incident and how it is worked out, dealing with dispatch should always be strictly business.

I did not know that. Thank you, tbcabs!

Educational Video on YouTube about quantative easing and the Federal Reserve Bank.

EO Nation? Well, OK. This EO citizen is freshly showered, sitting in the Binghamton, NY TA, waiting for Diane to finish the laundry. There were other events today but in the interest of brevity I'm sharing just the highlights.

Thinking a bit more about this, it would not be our carrier that would provide the ability to download our digitized log data but Qualcomm. Just as they now offer six months of data as they now do, perhaps our carrier could prevail on them to take the next step and enable us to download our log...

Some truck washes have displays of truck wash products. Keep an eye out for them and check out the brands on line. I have seen a line of commercial truck wash products on display at some Granger stores too. NAPA may also have information to offer you. Generally, when you get into an area...

Your analysis of this dynamic is correct but you need to include labor unions too. It's not just big business that uses its influence in government to make rules that benefit it. Any organization that has the power to shape policy does the same. Notice just one union example that is in play...

It happens from time to time. I shake them like any other tailgater by slowing down.

I know little about buying an extended warranty on a used truck but can tell you what Diane and I did when we bought our new truck. We took delivery of this truck in 2006 and extended the warranty coverage out to five years/500,000 miles, less engine where we went the standard factory warranty...

Leo, I thought of you when I read news about class action law suits that have been filed against CAT. You are aware of them?

That would be huge and it would open a host of possibilities in optimizing individual trucks and the entire fleet. I was not expecting that to come out of our carrier. I am happy enough to see access to past logs provided. If digitized and normalized data became easily available to the drivers...

I am surprised that the promoters of the new Qualcomm/EOBR systems have not yet mentioned the news yet that came in the November 5 Fleet Bulletin about viewing, saving and printing your hours of service history. I raised the issue here on February 10 and here on February 14. It got a lot of...

Full Story Here A law firm seems to be active in pursuing class action law suits based on some of the grievances truckers have voiced for years. Schneider and Swift are targeted. It will be interesting to see where this goes from here.

My wife and I are leased on to a large company. We are not fools and they are not mindless wonders. Regarding the routing scenario you present, Diane and I have been in similar circumstances but have never had a problem. Perhaps that is because we handled it differently. Say we had a CA to NY...

Readers may be interested in your California and western state experience this trip. I invite you to post them in the West Side Story thread.

Places we have used shore power for our truck: 1. At home in our driveway 2. At RV parks when staying there 3. At Jubitz truck stop in Portland, Oregon 4. At the homes of friends and relatives when we are staying there. 5. In the service bays at dealerships when the truck is being worked...

You did not mention the third option of adding a lift axle. Tandem axles have several disadvantages. You will pay higher tolls. You will buy more tires over the life of the truck. Two drive axles require more maintenance and repair than one. And, they are not needed since expedited loads are...

Our most recent series of runs that took us to the West Coast and back will conclude on Friday with a delivery east. Details here.

I hear that! The fleet owner who hurt us worst spoke of Jesus first. In expediting and in other businesses I have learned that the quicker someone is to suggest that you should do business with him or her because of one's Christian beliefs, the more cautious to be about doing so. Cheats are...