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"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 [...]

I was reading the The Trucker last week and an article which I can’t find on their online version talks about how a core group of American carriers and a public safety group I’ve never heard of, wants to have mandatory speed limiters set at 68 mph. For everyone. Imagine every truck rolling down the [...]

After the last few posts about not driving enough, being burned out and freight in general on a downturn you would think I was ready to park the truck for good. Our little vacation last month really helped a lot. We’re back at work and as soon as we were ready we got a decent [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.
Originally posted 2008-05-25 20:35:24.