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I just watched another documentary about additives. I personally in all the years i´ve trucked and all the miles i´ve driven have never used ANY type of additive (diesel, gas, injector oil etc). I´ve always maintained my equipment with the thrust bieng on clockwork oil changes at 10,000 miles...

Business is slow. Alot of us are just sitting around truck stops waiting for the next load. Remember the movie "The good, the bad and the.....uuuuugly"! I hope no one is offended. ! Good: Your wife is pregnant. Bad: It's triplets. Ugly: You had a vasectomy five years ago. Good: Your...

Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc., so you will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call to cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. A corporate attorney sent this out to...

I was reading a travel article about things to pack for a trip. I'm always on a trip. I got to thinking about the things i take, with me that are indepensable to me. Things like my fm walkie talkies, which i've had for years. I now have the small ones (family radio band 38 channels AAA...

I recently had a conversation with a truck salesman, who specializes in expediters. He told me that many companies are urging thier drivers to switch to class 8. He also said that, stretching one is not the way to go. Also his reasoning was that companies don't hold the same 5 year age limit on...

A group of us were talking about combos we like to eat.You know, that particular sandwich you like that would make anybody else barf.I never really thought much about it, until i mentioned a couple of mine. I guess i'm just as weird as the rest out there. I like peanut butter and tomatoe...

We usually keep some emergency rations in the cab, and because I like to eat, i'm always looking for creative road food ideas. We avoid truck stop chow, as much as possible. My food stash is usually a couple of cans of beef stew, beans, and some good trail mix, or mixed nuts, for hiway munching...

So what did he bring you? The moment of truth. Any of yuo guys get those new trucks?!! He drank all my crown royal. skipped the milk and cookies this year. Got real heavy into the Cheesewhiz!! The most unique thing he put under my tree with my name on it, is a battery operated corkscrew!! my...

I think I'll give myself a break this year, and not get too altruistic, on resolutions. Something simple, that I know I can handle..like, take more time off, and drink more beer!! So put yours out here, if you dare!!

i want an all expense paid vacation for at least a month,to someplace warm, where i'll sit on the balcony in my bvd's and sleep late, order from room service, a diet of sun, sand, suds, steak, shrimp, sleep, and start over ... and when i get back i want a trucking job that will keep me on route...

i always get a kick out of the company line, and the pitch.(one in the same). the pitch is pure snake oil. i remember the first trucking job i ever had, and i asked the recruiter if i would be home once a week...his answer.."yeah..for sure'"..."we have lanes that go right by your house"!..."40...

throughout my trucking career, i have been many times surprised at the caliber of people behind the wheel, and on the road...so what did you do before?......and what made you choose trucking? i worked as a field technician, first for a television production company, and then as a tech for an...

I started trucking in the mid 80's. my first lease was with north american who also taught me how to drive TT. I switched to expediting 5 years ago. the game is the same no matter who you lease to. The company an o&o leases to, has one primary objective. TO MAKE MONEY. the owner operator has the...

I received some feedback from my post "first rate info". Some pro,some con. I was even accused of beating the company drum. First let me say that i´m a trucker, not a writer. What i was trying to say, was that if all of us got on here, and told the straight story and mentioned the companies we...

I read this forum and others and am constantly looking for good trucking information. I think a starting point would be to give an honest and fair assessment of what YOU are doing with YOUR truck. (i.e. how many miles you are averaging, what is your median revenue per mile including deadhead...