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Your scenario and strategy makes sense IF the inflation you project actually happens. And I agree that the way the government has been printing money sets the stage for that very thing. However, these things that seem like they should happen do not always happen in the time frame that might be...

I do not provide investment advice to strangers or even to close friends and family. I worked 11 years as a stockbroker and financial planner and learned then that unless I have a professional, formal and ongoing client/advisor relationship in place, it is not good to share good ideas. People...

In 2007, I saw a recession coming and started putting up posts to get expediters thinking about it and to encourage them to prepare (first post here). I did not know then that this would become the Great Recession, but got it right about a coming recession. Today I see another big bad thing...

ATeam: Diane and I are a team.

I don't want to take this thread down a path that will land it in the Soapbox forum so I'll provide this link without further comment. It links to an article about vehcile inspections and the driver's Fourth and Fifth Ammendment rights.

I agree with you that the government is gradually and increasingly erroding our rights and the founding fathers would not recognize today the country they founded two centuries ago. But in the case of an annual truck inspection blitz, what rights are being violated? In what way is it disrespectful?

These annual events have never meant anything different for Diane and me. We've seen the scales more active but have never been pulled in for an inspection while the blitz is on that I recall. And if you are pulled in, would it be any different than any other roadside inspection you might receive?

Yes, this is a sign of things to come. Robot trucks will drive for far less money than human driven trucks and that is why there will be a rush to them once the legal hurdles are cleared. Robots will be exempt from hours of service rules too, making them far more useful and productive than...

There is no more noble deed than to take care of one's mother and/or father when the need arises.

In a thread started by LDB in the FedEx Custom Critical forum, entitled "Fix the stupid phones," frustrations are voiced. A response follows from a fellow contractor sharing the workaround that contractor developed to ease the burden. I'm with Leo on this one. That phone system was a pain when...

It would not surprise me to learn that the journalist or editor who decided to do that story was tailgated by a truck that scared him, her or a loved one half to death. A four-wheeler will encounter 10,000 trucks on the road and not notice one. The truck that will be remembered and talked about...

I agree with you, chefdennis, but wish to take a softer tone. People who are in difficult circumstances of their own making are still in difficult circumstances. It is a painful thing to fail in a business venture, regardless of how the failure came about. Stern warnings are appropriate for...

That is true to a point, but keep the people in mind who are making truck payments today or servicing other debt based on the freight rates they enjoyed afew years ago. Businesses of all kinds can get wiped out when yesterday's then-valid assumptions are not supported by today's realities...

According to a Mexican blogger and trucker who is up on U.S./Mexico border issues, it is more complicated than that. See: Murder of 15 year old by Border Patrol could have profound effect on U.S. trucker's case (Warning: graphic photo of the dead teen in this report)

Overdrive News Story: Support swells for U.S. trucker detained in Mexico

We have the regular TA card and have never paid much attention to the UltraONE Expediter Club card because in a team-driven straight truck we have always had plenty of fuel credits to get free showers. Am I missing anything by being in a straight truck but not having an UltraOne Expediter Club...

Are there any guidelines or general principles that expediters can can be articulated to help expedite understand the freight market, freight availability, pricing and movement? Brokers and carriers have all kinds of information about shippers and freight. What can the expediters who haul the...

Why can't you cut down a Joshua Tree? Why would you want to?

Then white-collar professionals who got bit by the trucking bug, Diane and I went to the 2003 Louisville truck show to continue researching the trucking industry. We stumbled onto the EO booth there and discovered expediting at that moment. Five months later we were in a fleet owner's truck.

I used to read the General, Truck Talk and Newbies Paradise in that order and then drift at random as the spirit moved. Having recently discovered the New Posts link, I am increasingly using it and reading topics of interest regardless of the forum they are in. Except the Soapbox; with very rare...