I tried not to comment, but....last year, I called our largest ready-mix company to find out what their starting wage is. It was very, very...
Sawmill, did I see you cruising through Norfolk, NE on Monday afternoon?
lol!! I'm guessing that's not a secret new model truck that Volvo is testing?!? What is it all coming to?
ALWAYS ! I'm still hauling for the same customer I've been with since 1999, and the whole time, there has always been a bottom feeder contractor...
Haha.....wow !!.....sounds like experience talking, eh?
When I bought my 18 wheeler, I went in as an O/O with my own authority right out of the gate. It did not take me long to get a pretty good...
So true ! The one place that I have a contract with has been getting seedy and brutally uglier for the past 2 years. I've always been a...
LOL !! It was Huntsville, AL that I had in mind when I posted that. Years ago, they had about 2 inches of wet snow and it was total chaos !
In a region where the locals aren't particularly accustomed to winter driving, my advice is to be somewhere else!
A good place to start is to go visit with a CPA and a loan officer, and ask them about what they have seen in regards to their O/O clientele
There is waaay, waaaay too much that you don't know, for you to even consider getting into this business right now. An Internet forum is not the...
Dire Straits_"so far away from me". That one almost caused me to deadhead home in my early days of trucking.
I am amazed that I've never heard that one before until now ! Now THAT is my idea of a guitar solo ! Gonna hit the iTunes Store.
'Heard it in a LOOOVE song.....Can't be wrong' !!!!!!!!!
Another worn out road song that still works is "flirtin' with disaster " by molly hatchet.
As a long-time hard rock/metal fan, I'd recently downloaded a tune from Five Finger Death Punch "wash it all away". A reality check slapped me in...
That is exactly what put me behind the eight-ball when I started with my own numbers. I had a decent cash reserve on the day that I started...
"Who'll Stop the Rain" by CCR has the road vibe. My absolutely necessary albums for the road are : Eagles- greatest hits 71-76 (?) CCR- greatest...
He knows that nothing is free. He is attempting to take advantage of you. He either wants a freebie, or he is trying to negotiate a steep...
She said $4500 that week. Not horrible if he's pulling a dry van. The payment is nasty
