It's a Team's Life
It takes Sense to make Cents
It takes cents to make cents...
While I realize that the saying in really not wrong as what the sign was alluding to was that a cent can add up to a lot of money in the end every extra penny per mile reduced in operating costs or added to pay per mile adds up to an extra $1000.00 per 100,000 miles ran.
In my lifetime I have seen many people with lots of cents lose it all due to no sense and I have seen people with no cents make a lot of cents due to sense.
There are always extenuating circumstances that can affect anyone and it is how the recovery goes to how much sense is used. For us I am very conservative and my risks are calculated.
People who step out on the ledge with no parachute and build one on the way down have all of my admiration, but I am not built that way. I am more like a tortoise I like slow and easy with predicted results and a huge safety net.
I like budgets, emergency funds, and backup plans to the backup plan and while I know we miss out on some things I rest easier at night. Buying our first truck was much easier than our second truck. Our first truck was bought on what we had learned from talking to other drivers, brochures, and how we assumed everything would go.
The second truck was purchased on cold hard facts and just coming through the down turn in the markets we have seen how ugly it can get out here. Buying a new bigger truck was stepping out on the edge for me and time will tell how much stress and risk this will involve. As usual I have a backup to the backup plan and I am planning that sense will make cents for us.
So here is to making cents by using our sense.
Bob & Linda Caffee
Leased to: FedEx Custom Critical 

TeamCaffee

Saint Louis MO
Expediters 6 years been out here on the road 11 years
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