Posts Tagged ‘economy’
Busy day!
I dropped a load (temporarily) near Gallup, NM. We can’t leave until Monday after the driver gets his Arizona permit. We are en route to western Nevada. After leaving that load, I came back to Albuquerque to perform a route survey for a 23 foot wide load going into Colorado on US 285. I thought [...]
TRY COLLAPSIBLE CONES TO GAIN MORE SPACE
As professional pilot car operators, we try to carry all the required equipment and lots of good-to-have items to help us help our load get to its destination safely and efficiently. It takes up a lot of space! One of the biggest space users is our safety cones. Three eighteen inch cones occupy 1.54 cubic [...]
Trucker’s Slowdown-Pros & Cons
There is talk today of a trucker’s slowdown or downright strike with the next week or so. It all is an effort to let the general public , the lawmakers, rulemakers, and industry, know just what a bind truck drivers are in! Because of our deep involvement in the trucking industry, we too are squeezed [...]