Trucking

Most of the articles about this have the same story from Reuters. This one has a different spin to it. It actually sounds like bad news in this article instead of what the court of appeals said, that FMCSA didn’t take into consideration drivers health and they were “arbitrary and capricious.” Months, if not years [...]

OOIDA is a great organization. They are the only ones that are actually looking out for the drivers. Unlike some of the ATA organization that are just political wastes of time and only look out for themselves. For a nominal fee I have a voice in Washington, DC. An organization that has taken up large [...]

Routing is probably the most popular reason to get a computer. There are a zillion of them out there. I’ve tried a bunch. None of them do exactly what I want the way I want to do it. I have and use three at the moment.

Or as I like to say, (in a nice way) Old Farts. A lot of these old drivers have been around trucking for 20 or 30 years. A lot of them will complain about the “new breed” of matchbook driving school grads sitting around the counter of a truck stop drinking coffee and smoking [...]

I thought I’d respond to this comment here, since it was left in a really old post and I haven’t bitched about the EPA for awhile.
I was wondering if anyone out there had opinions, good or bad on the
new EPA friendly trucks being sold - specifically Peterbilt.
First, Peterbilt doesn’t make engines. And second I really [...]

Back in 2004 (do you believe this site has been going since 2004? Yeah, me and the other person that reads this doesn’t either!) I wrote about when Idleaire first came out. My first impression without trying it was that the big yellow hose was a vacuum sucking money out of drivers wallets. Now [...]