What’s Your Revenue per Mile?

Revenue is all about the dollars per mile you get for the load.  End of story. Is it? The Whole Story of Revenue or How to Get Out of Florida I know some truckers who say they will never take a job less than $3 per mile.  I call it the “Glory Load.” Good...

“No Truck Parking” Is Dangerous To Everyone

It’s becoming a greater problem for truckers to find a place to rest.  Truck stops are reducing the size of their parking lots.  Walmart lots are getting a reputation for being unsafe to point that some companies tell their truckers not to stop there.  Every...

How is using old software like fixing a bad tire?

I was driving down I-71 last week, dodging road gators. Somebody was driving on bad tires.  Or maybe lots of somebodies driving on bad tires. I guess it’s a bad habit, counting the number of trucks pulled over on the side with truck rescue crews parked in front...

The 12 Days Before the Roadcheck Blitz

We decided to have some fun with the Roadcheck Blitz this year.  Sing along with us! But at the end, this is how we feel: You know why we pass the Roadcheck Blitz every year? Because we don’t just care about our trucks for only the week before the Roadcheck. We...

Truck Routing and LTL Load Success

The first time that Joe and Angela decided to try LTL trucking, the whole process struck them way harder than it needed to be.  How difficult could it be to put three loads on a truck in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and deliver them to Houston, Austin, and Lubbock,...

The Key to Build Up Your Trucking Customers

It’s all about the customer. Bet you wish you had a nickel for every time you heard that. As an owner operator, especially in days when the loads are small and not too many around, you need a way to make sure your trucking customers remember you.  Getting people...

How To Take The Headache Out Of Truck Parking

Every once in a while, you hear about a big truck wreck caused by a trucker who fell asleep at the wheel, and then the politicians start talking about restricting hours on the road, and once again, truckers get the short end of the stick.  More regulations make it...

Leap Into Goal Setting

It’s just another day on the road, right? It’s Leap Year and today’s that extra day on the road.  No big deal, right? It can be just another day, but maybe this could be the day that you choose to make extra. An extra day to think about more than...
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