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We have delivered to a movie production facility in New York City and a large movie studio in Los Angeles. The New York delivery was frozen pizza dough to be used in making a TV ad for a major food company. The other was a nearly-finished movie that had post-production work done on it in New...

Two bars and a pizza joint sounds like reason enough for me. :p

Good words. Keep us posted.

Most recent run: Deadhead from a town in Maine, west on U.S. 2 to a town in Vermont to pick up. Drive loaded to a town in Upstate New York to deliver. (A delightful New England summer drive, I might add.) Miles on offer: 405 Miles on FedEx-recommended route as calculated by Delorme: 395...

If you are willing to establish yourself as a carrier, this may be an option to consider: GPSNet Technologies I was skeptical when I first learned of this approach a few years ago. But they have a success story to tell. In articles he has written and interviews he has done, company honcho Stu...

That is a great site, Crazynuff. Thank you for alerting us to it. By choice, we don't have a TV in our truck, but with online TV expanding like it is, it seems more and more that if you have a laptop, you have a TV too.

Users of Sprint and Verizon air cards regularly report high satisfaction with the services. At the moment, we are online with an air card, and also backed up to a loading dock, waiting for the shipper to arrive. We are at least 10 miles from any WI-FI access point that might be around and at...

Thank you, aarbsthw. It was an anti-climatic event. While it is nice to own the truck outright and have no truck payments to make, we feel no less focused than before. The plan is to run this truck for ten years. With two years behind us and eight to go, and adjusting for inflation, we...

TeamCaffee has it right. If the load pays enough money, accept it. Otherwise, don't. With or without reefer relocation pay, reroute pay, fuel surcharge, labor pay, deadhead pay, liftgate pay and any other pay, it has never mattered to us what they call it. All that matters is how much the...

While expediting is a tiny slice of the transportation industry, there are numerous styles of expediting that people do. Diane and I have zero interest in running under our own authority. That is not to take anything away from those that do. It is just that we value our free time. The people...

Save space. Type on light. Do we really need laptops any more? I-Tech's Virtual Keyboard - A laser projected full-sized virtual QWERTY keyboard Video: YouTube - laser keyboard

If your fleet owner is maintaining the truck and you have had no problems, that is worth a LOT and I would not be thinking about jumping ship just yet. Availability is a legitimate concern that I would guess other drivers share. Having someone on 24/7 for emergencies is a good thing. Having...

While FedEx Kinko's stores work, and are especially convenient after normal business hours, we prefer to have our mail FedEx'ed to FedEx Global Express Centers or World Express Centers (mark the air bill "Hold For Pickup"). Truck parking is almost always available there, as FedEx trucks load out...

Diane and I have been hauling White Glove freight with straight trucks, both reefer and dry box, for nearly five years. In that time, I have come to believe two things about WG straight trucks and the work. The first is that WG straight trucks and the people who drive them comprise a...

This may or may not be helpful. On our truck, if we tail load 1,000 lbs of freight, it takes about 500 lbs off the front axle. If you look at the photo, you will see the drive axles are more forward than you see on some trucks. You are already doing it. Keep paying attention to the scales and...

Actually, they say the divisions cooperate with each other to meet customer needs.

Because of his success and proven wisdom, Warren Buffett enjoys high credibility in Wall Street circles. A recent Reuters article reports Buffett's views. "The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect,...." Alan Greenspan and other...

We don't make a profit to buy a truck. We buy a truck to make a profit. The truck is an expense. Profit is what you have after all expenses are paid.

Notice that I did not say truck payment costs were suddenly reduced to zero. I said interest on the truck loan was reduced to zero. Once the truck is paid off, interest costs cease. But even though the truck is just two years old and paid for, replacing the truck must be accounted for, and the...

ratwell71, I think you have a valid point when you speak of the time value of money. I also think Turtle has a valid point when he speaks about paying present day expenses with present day dollars. Using the $1.40 number you suggested, if my carrier paid me $1.40 per mile to haul freight and...