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Colonel, You warm my heart. :)

That's our approach. Run it until the wheels fall off. We bought brand new and plan to run it ten years at least. At our current rate of 12,000 miles a month and 144,000 miles a year, ten years will put 1,440,000 miles on the odometer. We believe that with an agressive PM program starting with...

IdleAire is not the only game in town when it comes to idle alternatives. Truckstop electrification is discussed in certain circles and is appearing here and there. We were pleasantly surprised to see it offered free (for a limited time) yesterday at Jubitz in Portland, Oregon. See...

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When we stopped at Jubitz truck stop in Portland, Oregon yesterday, we were surprised by one thing and learned another. The surprise was free shore power in the bobtail parking area (free for a limited time, the sign says). We took advantage. The learned item was this year's flu shot is...

>>Recruiting continues to recruit and the fleet size stays >>about the same. > >That's good news, is it not? > >If you have x-number of trucks and are doing an average of >1150 shipments a day, and then you still have the same >x-number of trucks when you're averaging 650 shipments a >day...

You may be right, given the numbers you present. But those numbers are not our numbers. Apples and Oranges. Diane and I are doing well, without fuzzy math and with sound financial planning and business practices. As much as you seem to want to cloud that fact, the fact remains. We are getting...

OntarioVanMan, there might be an opportunity here. Bloomberg.com says, "The Canadian dollar has gained almost 19 percent again the U.S. dollar this year, the biggest increase among the 16 major currencies. Canada, the world's eighth-biggest economy, has benefited from rising demand for copper...

No problem, then. It's not paid for yet but will be soon enough. We could pay it off now but prefer not to cut that deep into our reserves. It will be paid for long before we have to look at $1.25 a mile as a realistic scenario.

>It might take a rocket scientist to figure out how you would >pay for that running a $200,000 truck at $1.07 to $1.25 per >mile. And if the truck is paid for?

I wonder too. Also, what about heat, like to keep paint from freezing in the winter or to keep electronic components at room temp when the outside temp is say 50F?

>Tallcal wrote; >Too many trucks,not enough HIGH PAYING freight.Plenty of SE >offers($1.07 to $1.25) where before there were NONE.Only >hauled W/G mostly Refer freight. >I'm sure you will be fine Phil(you learn about truck >ownership when that beautiful rig becomes 3 to 4 years old...

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Thanks for your good wishes. Back at you. We have not made ourselves strangers when we have been in your neighborhood. The freight just has not given us time to stop in. It' our turn to buy lunch. We'll be there one day.

>Phil,at every turn in the road for the last 8 years, >rumor,prediction and highly anticipated revnue generating >schemes have been constantly anticipated by FEDEX CC and >communicated down to the owners.Truckload Brokerage is >nothing more then more of the same."It's going to turn...

I would guess (and it is a guess) that this is one of many cost cutting moves we will see made in coming months. IdleAire is not doing as well as its early investors hoped (not a guess). I don't think the company will disappear overnight. I do think the company will be sold at a discount and...

>My friend called me from Buffalo and we are going to pray up >a load. > >I would appreciate your prayers. Send me am IM and I'll pray >for you too! For prayers of that nature, would it not be wiser to to pray for a winning lottery ticket? If you can gin up one of those, please add me to...

cpboy_1, when you ask about stretching a truck or not, are you talking about a used tractor or new? If new, I would not even think of stretching it as your desired length and wheelbase can be ordered from the factory.

Gloves, maybe two pair; one pair for fueling that can get fuel on them, and one pair to wear when you are handling freight, opening dirty truck doors, etc. I have tried different kinds and keep coming back to the cheap Wal-Mart variety. The expensive gloves seem to last no longer.

If you are in conditions where fear of losing control of the truck rises, STOP! Get safely off the road as soon as you can and wait for conditions to improve; which may happen the next time the snow plow passes through. If driving at slow speeds and using tire chains will help, so be it. But...