At the gym, a dumbbell is a bar with a weight at each end. On the road, a dumbbell is a roundtrip.
A local dumbbell is a roundtrip where the pick up point is near the driver’s home, and the delivery destination is close enough that the driver can reload […]
My advice to anyone getting their motor carrier authority would be to create a relationship with a CPA. I have been using the same CPA to do my taxes since the first year of getting my authority. My first-year profit and loss numbers were a clear sign that a […]
When I first got started working with freight brokers in 2011, I was averaging more than 200 nights away from home each year. My primary strategy at that time was to go from one hot market to another hot market, chasing the highest-paying loads. At the beginning of 2015, […]
I try my best to avoid markets where demand is low, but that gets difficult at this time of year. It’s tough to get to a hot market at a decent rate per mile right now, but before giving in to a less desirable price – or waiting until […]
The kind of freight you choose to haul, whether it’s through a broker or direct from a shipper, is an individual decision that is determined by a person’s wants, needs and goals. I choose to work just with brokers, and February marked my seventh year pulling only spot market […]
