Easter Weekend on the Road

Sometimes it just can’t be helped.  Sooner or later in OTR trucking one is liable to spend time away from home when they really shouldn’t or at least certainly don’t want to.  Call it bad planning, bad luck, or just fate it does happen.

Lessons From a Little Engine

When I first started this blog it was with the intention of sharing my incites and opinions after 37 years out here on the road.
I was under no delusions that I could attract millions of readers or join the ranks of the top bloggers on the internet today or any day.

Top 10 Things About OTR Trucking That Make Me Grumpy

I understand that Top 10 lists are very popular. They may possibly be overdone, but if Letterman can get away with it, so can I.  Here are the 10 things I hate most about over the road trucking.

Disasters Around the World

Sitting in a Toronto truckstop parking lot last night I watched a documentary about the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. During the program I received an email from my buddy in Australia about the wildfire situation in that country.

The Great Coffee Cup Debate

In an age of ecological consciousness this is not a new topic but it turns out to be the one uppermost on my mind lately. What kind of cup should one buy their coffee in?

First there’s the styrofoam cup. Harder to find these days, since they are deemed to be the most environmentally unfriendly. With CFC’s, damage to the ozone and the fact that they last a gazillion years in the landfill, they are the least desirable from that standpoint. But who can argue the fact that they keep your coffee hot the longest?

People Gotta Eat

While it seems the trucking industry is getting hit as hard as any other with the current economic down turn, I’m happy to say it seems I am in the right part of the industry for a change. That in itself amazes me as I have a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Dreams or Nightmares

There is certainly no shortage of things to blog about these days. Between the war on terror, politics, the slumping economy and thousands of other things on people’s minds, the real question is, what, out of all those topics, would actually grab folks attention or interest long enough to cause them to actually read what I have to say?