From the team at ExpeditersOnline.com, we'd like to take a few moments to pause and reflect on how the years may seem to endlessly advance but the base formula for expedited gift shopping and giving remains unchanged. During the holidays, many in the truck driving community that we love and hold dear are busy working to help maintain an economy that is largely based on buying and selling. Most folks don't typically consider much beyond the customary exchanging of funds in ord...

Out With the Old, In With the New Today is the last day of 2025. As I write this, thoughts of the year come to mind. I think about the struggles our business went through this year. The freight was hard to come by and the rates were lower than previous years. Tomorrow those thoughts will be left behind and new thoughts will begin. I think about the great things that happened this year like taking a vacation that we have never taken together or growing our family. While 2025 h...

Gift Shopping Christmas is right around the corner. As truck drivers we have some challenges about how we go shopping. Whether we are shopping for gifts, groceries to restock our refrigerator in the truck or buying other necessities of life we are always facing parking issues as well as navigation concerns. Fortunately, there are ways of shopping via websites or shopping apps. Unfortunately, we don't know where we might be to take delivery of what it is we are buying. To be h...

The Right Decision? Truck drivers make decisions all day, every day. Owner operators have even more decisions to make as compared to drivers employed by a trucking company. Some of the decisions that all drivers make are which routes to take to avoid construction, accidents or weather. Owner operators also need to decide which loads to take, when to do maintenance on the truck or even when to go home. We had similar decisions to make a few weeks ago. We made a delivery that p...