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We completed our Landstar TVAL qualification in Fort Wayne this morning. Everything is good. Being close, we headed next to our favorite and trusted Volvo dealer to have a transmission quirk checked out. It turned out to be more than a quirk. Diagnosis: clutch. I guess we should not be too...

Very cool! Congratulations to John and all others who helped make this happen.

LOL! I've heard that song before but it never occurred to me to think about it in the context of leaving a motor carrier. Too funny. You are spot on in describing the difference between Landstar and many other motor carriers. The culture is so good, so respectful, so comfortable, that it did...

I'm not sure I get your meaning, but, yes, of course, all questions could be answered by calling LEA (Landstar Express America). The phone number for Landstar is on the Refreigerated Team Equipment Requirements page for which I provided a link.

In Fort Wayne getting the truck TVAL'ed for Landstar. Details here.

Landstar has moved from "will build" a temperature-controlled fleet to "is building" the fleet. Diane and I arrived in Fort Wayne today to have the Ameriscan and TVAL probes installed in our straight truck and the truck body mapped. Another truck will be here tomorrow. Other straight trucks and...

Absolutely! That's a bargain at twice the price!

For Landstar, there are no refusal guidelines and no penalties for refusing loads. There are, at Landstar Express America (the expedite division) a few small fleet owners that have a few trucks each, but I know of no special benefits that they receive. If you called Landstar Express America...

When you are outside Landstar looking in, or inside Landstar and brand new, marketing yourself to agents seems like a big thing, and in one sense it is. It is something that is not necessary at carriers that have centralized dispatch. It is something new and different. It can be scary if you...

And that's one of the reasons Landstar's dispatch system is as sane and straightforward as it is. When an agent calls to dispatch our truck, it is often the case that the very same agent is the one who set up the load and is working directly with the shipper. When it is a brokered load, the...

I was a college student in Minneapolis, no recollection of the weather or news of the day. I probably used my typewriter that day. Personal computers had not yet come on the scene. My bright-red Pontiac Firebird sat in the lot. It had an eight-track tape player. Telephones were mounted on or...

According to the Calorie Control Council, Americans will eat 30 million pounds of snacks on Super Bowl Sunday, including 11.2 million pounds of potato chips. I guess that TA is doing it's part to make sure truckers who are not home are not left out of the 1,200 calorie binge. It's all good...

Exactly! But that's not the end of the story. When 15,000 expediters fall out of the race, 15,000 more come in to replace them. Successful expediters make this job look great, but far more fail than succeed.

In the interests of full disclosure, this update is provided. With 12,100 hours on our Onan Quiet Diesel 7500 generator, we had an expensive and unscheduled repair done yesterday. The cost was $900 and two days out of service to get it done. One day was to have it diagnosed. the other day was...

Excellent post, usafk9, and you close with one of the most important questions a prospective owner-operator can ask. If all prospective owner-operators asked that question and made being prepared a top priority, the trucking industry would look different than it does today. Many shippers...

Blood runs purple, until it doesn't.

If a true capacity shortage developed because of the CARB rules, CARB would agree to suspend or otherwise delay the effective dates of the rules so that a truly painful capacity crunch would not happen. Just ask them. Everybody in California is for clean air. But if the rules caused a real...