I think the #1 thing that nobody ever tells you when you get into trucking is how to get OUT of trucking. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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At the moment, there are more and more trucking specific apps and programs coming out every day. Many of them are just duplicating the work of...
One of my favorite questions: "If I were to ask your drivers what the biggest problem is with this company, what would they be likely to say?"...
I seem to recall a spot in PA a few years back where they repaved the road under a rail bridge, but instead of grading it down they just added a...
Whaddaya wanna bet his company dings him for a preventable anyway? :biggrin_2554:
Here's a really simple way of wrapping your mind around when to leave and make your schedule: if you leave early, you allow yourself time for...
If you wanna get technical, you have to back up any time you want the truck to move in a direction other than forward.
I must have been born lucky or something. I am leasing a brand new Utility reefer with full Smartway package for $1600/month including the...
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of making a living on 90 cents per mile plus FSC. I do not have my own authority, but my truck...
I've been just fine using my "ballpark" method, which assumes you can see inside the trailer. If your trailer mudflaps are slightly behind the...
I'd rather hear an ugly truth than a pretty lie.
I've only been in this game for 9 years, but I can say beyond any shadow of a doubt that things are a LOT different now than they were when I...
I would have probably rotated my drives a few months ago, or as soon as I saw the pattern showing up. Barring that, you could always see if...
I am increasingly leery of the post 2007 EPA engines. The 2012 Coronado I had with DPF/DEF Cummins ISX was by far the worst truck I ever owned....
That would likely be the KW900L ICON Edition. Last time PACCAR put out a special edition it was the 2007 Pete 379 Legacy. Turned out to be the...
If there's any way to fit it in the budget, my next truck will definitely have an APU. Not sure where you got your figures from, but there's no...
I find that you can usually get it in the ballpark if you set the tandems so that the trailer's mudflaps are lined up with or just behind the rear...
I think you're onto something with the sensor. Seems to me I had that problem a time or two as well.
Seriously, if the tach is up against the governor and it just kinda took off on its own, there's a possibility something bad is about to happen....
