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Do as Diane and I do. Add your voice and vote to those of other OOIDA members by joining OOIDA and adding your name to their membership roles. A lone voice and vote is one thing. An organized mass of voices and votes is quite another. Then send additional money to OOIDA to help fund the...

That's true if you are trying to attract flies. But if you are trying to influence public policy, it's about money and power. And the closer you get to the rooms where the rules are written, the more important money and power becomes. The following is a true story that illustrates my point...

If I was in Administrator Ferro's shoes, I would be equally glad to have someone like you on the other end of the call. When a government official has a public policy agenda to push through and there will be opposition from truckers, political cover can be gained by stroking the egos of...

Our truck sleeper is equipped with the Select Comfort Sleep Number matress (standard full size so sheets are available at all linnen stores). It was not cheap but we have never slept so well in a moving truck as we do on this. Pillow top, high thread count sheets, sleep number adjust ... good to go!

It would be difficult to say for certain that C-unit numbers are increasing in expediting fleets without a proper study to determine that. Such a study would require a survey of all carriers, including all mom and pop carriers, to compare C and D truck counts today with those of a year or two...

I agree. The caveat is meaningless and perhaps even more harmful than not having it. It takes some pressure off the FMCSA without changing how the unfair scoring system is designed and use. Posting that caveat is a cowardly and underhanded act by the FMCSA in my opinion. Good administrators...

Is it 11 yet?

What kind of pension requires you to give it up if you find other work? I'm not understanding why your or someone else's EIN number would matter.

Yes, I follow the manufacturer's recommended service intervals. I thought about stretching them out but it only takes three quarts of oil and the oil filter is cheap. Changing the oil is easy after you have done it a couple of times. The money you save by stretching out oil changes on an Onan is...

I do my own oil and filter changes on our Onan Quiet Diesel 7500. Found significant cost savings by buying Fram oil filters at Walmart (TG3593A or _ _ 3593A) and NAPA Gold fuel filters (3063) at NAPA. Don't buy fuel filters in California. They rob you there. Still have to go to Onan for the...

Congratulations on your first 100,000 and especially on your SAFE 100,000. May all your miles be safe.

We had a RigMaster in one of the fleet owner trucks we drove. Based on our experience with it, we would avoid that brand.. Reason: LOUD, LOUD, LOUD. It was also unreliable and worthless in summer desert heat but that may be installation and maintenance related. It was used when we got in the...

We did not buy tires today. Last time we did, we got them at the Landstar fleet rate through LCAAP. The price was comparable to what we used to get through FedEx Custom Critical's tire discount program. That's a rough comparison formed by talking to a FDCC contractor who bought tires about the...

Crude oil prices are down 30 percent off their March, 2012 highs. If you are going to blame speculators for driving oil prices higher, are you not also required to credit speculators for driving oil prices lower? Using our carrier's fuel discount program, Diane and I paid $3.19 a gallon for...

Solo delivery drivers use lift gates by themselves all day long. You see it all the time on city streets with food delivery trucks. Expedite solos and teams use lift gates. There are lift gate loads where the customer insists on handling the freight on both ends and the driver does nothing...

Upgrading or replacing an existing reefer is different than spec'ing out a brand new $250,000 reefer truck (it would cost close to $300,000 today to replace our present truck). Depending on the reefer business outlook at our present carrier, we might upgrade or replace. But we will not go on...

From CNBC: Bankrupcy as an Option at Navistar?

Why are you not happy with your current brokers?

As zory suggests, evaluating reefer profitability is not just about the reefer itself but about the whole truck. There was a discussion a few years ago about determining the value of the reefer itself and most seemed to agree that the whole package is best to consider. So too with a lift gate...

Please don't start. Investing emotional energy in Phil or anyone else is a loser's game. Focus on business. Make rational decisons. There are no lines on a profit and loss statement for how you feel about this or that or what you think think about one person or another.