I have a 2019 Kenworth t680 with a Paccar mx13 … It has the plastic oil pan on it and it seems to have a small hairline crack that I have been trying to seal … Anyone have a product they have tried to seal it … I’ve tried a couple products but so far no luck … Trying to not spend a thousand (if I don’t it) or three thousand (if a shop does it) on a pan replacement
So I bought a Lowboy from a guy in Texas and he had the flip neck welded to the rigid neck. I asked him what happened and he said that his driver didn’t put the pin in right on the one side and it had fell out and broke the lugs to secure it.
He said he had it plated because he needed to keep using it and the insurance company was taken too long so he just plated it and kept the money and ran it like that since it wasn’t a big deal to him. I told him that if I buy it, does he know someone…
Idaho troopers seek pickup that fled after striking semi in I-90 construction zone
What can I say? The situation speaks for itself. 
Ever look at the expression on the face of an idiot who cut you off only to exit three inches later? I have.
You would expect the facial expression to be one of recent exhilaration or fear. Instead,…
Well gents,
It’s been a fun ride. As at least one of you knows, the end of the week is my last day as a broker. I had an offer come in, more or less out of the blue, that I *really* couldn’t pass up. I’m moving from freight to freight adjacent. Some of you cats in the Minnesota/Wisconsin area might wind up getting calls for me on my next adventure, but that’ll remain to be seen.
I wanted to take a few minutes to reflect and thank you guys, broker and trucker alike, who’ve been…
I am finishing school at a university in Texas. Any advice, or things I need to be aware of? Knowledge of companies that have been beneficial and ones to be aware of? I will be looking for a company that offers OTR/ long hauls.
Hello I’ve been door dashing for 4 years, and just landed a job as an amazon van delivery driver. I’ve been a helper for DOT amazon delivery drivers for a couple weeks and will start driving a van this week finally. I plan to work my way up to becoming a DOT driver where I’ll be driving a big DOT box truck with air brakes.
But I learned of an opportunity from amazon semi-truck drivers where I can go to a trucking school and earn a CDL and get training to become a driver that operates those…
Logistics Business magazine, together with the Information Factory, have produced a new 8 page digital magazine on logistics cost allocation: how to calculate and allocate costs in logistics operations. Editor Peter MacLeod talks to iFactory CEO Robert Jordan to understand how transport and distribution businesses can use a tool that accurately determines costs. Learn how to drive revenue and boost profits in logistics.
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Operating in a commercial landscape with these wafer-thin margins means that understanding the true cost of operations has never been more critical. Yet, somehow, many organisations still seem to be operating with only limited visibility into their actual costs, relying on aggregated figures and educated guesswork that can often fail to inspire confidence among decision-makers, finance departments or those in customer-facing roles who need to know how much they have to play with when neck-deep in negotiations with a client.
Logistics Cost Allocation
This was precisely the challenge facing DHL Express several years ago, according to Robert Jordan, Founder and CEO of The Information Factory. “A few years ago, DHL reviewed its costing approach with a view to ‘turbocharging’ it, ” Jordan explains. “DHL, being extremely customer-focused, approached it from the customer end. They wanted to get customer profitability sorted, because they discovered many customers were engaging them for services that weren’t profitable.”
The fundamental question was simple yet profound: How do you accurately determine profitability? Traditional costing methods based on the previously mentioned largely estimated calculations had led to the creation of an environment where stakeholders didn’t fully trust the cost data they were seeing. “Someone clever in finance insisted that the costing had to reconcile to the general ledger,” says Jordan. “They took the general ledger and said, ‘these are our costs because we know what they are.’ It has to absolutely reconcile to the general ledger.”
The result was a shift to Activity-Based Costing (ABC), initially implemented as what Jordan describes as a “black box” system, namely opaque, difficult to understand and hard to modify. The Information Factory’s mandate was to replace this with a transparent solution offering clear visibility into costing rules and their application, along with the ability to refine these rules over time.
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I agreed to do a load for them last night and basically they gave the load away to someone else that was cheaper.
Don’t know what anyone else’s experience has been with them but they are on the do not use list so beware.
Screw them.
First off, I realize TQL has a bad reputation with many carriers and drivers out there. Frankly, this is not without reason. There are many brokers working at my company that treat drivers and carriers horribly. I have heard of and have personally seen instances where broker negligence was clearly happening and drivers were refused legitimate requests for detention, TONUs, or were intentionally given false information about pick ups and drops of a load. It is an unsustainable business model…
I am a Freight Broker at TQL – looking for conversation and dialogue