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Thank you for the photos. The sans visor look takes some getting used to.

I'm not sure it is a fact of life that one team driver is better than the other. One might be better at backing. The other might corner better. Heck, there are days when I surprise myself by getting into a challenging dock on the first try, and other days when I have acres of space to work with...

It is an interesting request you make. As a co-driver and half of a married-couple team, I usually talk about what "we" do because we are in this together. We have the same goals. We enjoy each other's company. We have developed business practices and work habits that are the same. It sometimes...

There is the event and there is your response to the event. In many cases, the anxiety one feels can be overcome by thinking through the feelings you experience and thinking of ways you can change your response. Two authors that have written about the ability to change how you feel by...

Do you have before and after pictures?

$22,500 gross/$1.90 per mile = 11,842 miles $26,000 gross/$1.70 per mile = 15,294 miles Let's assume (you can give or take as you wish) it costs $1.50 per mile to operate your truck. Thus: 11,842 miles x $1.50 per mile = $17,763 to run the truck. 15,294 miles x $1.50 per mile = $22,941 to run...

It would help if you provided the number of miles driven, and how many of those are unpaid deadhead miles. It would also help to know what the cost per mile is to operate the truck. If you cannot provide that, share what you can. I can plug in some assumed values after that to run the numbers...

Another component in our technology decisions is something I call the Katrina test. Our work sometimes takes us to remote areas for routine deliveries and disaster areas for important disaster relief deliveries and/or support. We could easily find ourselves in an area for several days where...

The bewildering array of communication and navigation choices available today leaves me, well, bewildered. At the moment, I am content to wait until the iPhone breaks free of ATT to see what has settled by then. Thoughts bouncing in my mind now include: 1. We do not want to change cell phone...

I know you put a lot of time and effort into researching the expedite business opportunity, and I am sorry you were unable to find a way in that you were hoping to find. It would have been fun to meet up with you out on the road. But given your location in the country, desire for home time, and...

We have learned that lesson too. Even for something as routine as an oil change or lube job, check to see the job was done right before leaving. This is especially important in expediting as the freight takes us all over and we are never quite sure when we will be back near the vendor that...

The person in question is no more my friend than you are; just someone I have talked to online. Friend or not, I would not ask the person to post a reply. This is not a matter to be debated between the two of you in an online forum. If you have a business matter to settle with this person, take...

When listening to two sides of a story, one generally listens not to one person's verision of both sides, but each person's version of how or her own side. I have read your posts and have heard a bit from the other side. Both versions leave me wondering what the full story really is; but only as...

This author has posted two different threads on the same "I was wronged" topic. What's up with that? It leads me to wonder what the other side of the story is. Actually, it was three threads but one was deleted as a code of conduct violation.

Readers would be wise to read this thread with a cautious eye. There are at least two sides to every story. Having heard bits from both, I am in no hurry to accept claims at face value.

It would be overkill for the truck you describe, but we have good experience with our Onan 7500 Quiet Diesel generator and roof unit. There was a generator fuel pump issue soon after install. That was covered under warranty by an Onan dealer on the road. Other than that, we now have over 4,000...

Change the oil and filters after the first 5,000 miles.

Sure enough. Here are the details. I don't recall exactly, but I think I remember reading in their financial statements that some of the IdleAire execs are in line to receive a healthy chunk of cash; golden parachutes negotiated when the company was young. And the company has never once been...

Observant readers will recognize this as BS. I am a frequent forum reader and no one I know or saw ever suggested ROI does not exist. I have never said ROI does not exist. But in an earlier post, you falsely attributed those words to me. If there is editing to be done, it should be you...

It can work from the other end too. We began not as owner-operators but drivers of a fleet owner's truck. The arrangement was 60/40, with 60% going to us, us receiving 100% of the fuel surcharge, and us paying for fuel. After a few months, we had a pretty good idea of what gross revenue was...