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Just a quick note to remind everyone what a short mile and a practical mile is. A short mile is what most companies pay and is an almost impossible route for a truck to drive.  Drivers drive practical miles and truck companies and brokers pay short miles. Usually about a 10 percent difference.
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And fuel prices are rising. Another non-story and it’s nothing new. But the press is talking to these poor truckers and listening to shutdown rumors.
Truck Drivers May Impose Shutdown To Protest High Gasoline Prices.Tulsa - How would you like to pay more than seven hundred dollars to fill up your tank? That’s what truck drivers [...]

The new Hours of Service rules, from Jan ‘04 are back in the news after the energy bill that Bush signed contained provisions to keep the Hours of Service at 11 hours of driving with a few changes. I’m only mentioning this because it’s in the news everywhere but, it’s not really a new story. [...]

"With fuel prices approaching $3 a gallon, what in the world are you doing buying a new truck?" Payments are more, but we’ve been doing really well lately, plus the other truck was starting to  cost more in repairs and downtime. The secret to trucking with higher fuel cost is to only carry stuff that [...]

TV Reporters are the worse for spin because they have to edit a news story into a thirty second commercial, inserting big headlines and spinning quotes from people to fit the headline. Like this one with a video clip -
Are tired truckers causing more wrecks?.
A shortage of truck drivers persists throughout the United States, [...]

Back to stuff I know about. I wrote a post about WIFI on the road in Nov ‘04 and not much has changed. TA is still so-so, Flying J’s are the best.
Two months ago I had to get a new laptop.  The power socket was loose and flaking out. I nursed it enough to [...]