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I wanted to share this link with everyone in regards to carriers finding it hard to fill jobs with drivers. Truck driver jobs hard to fill even in bad economy - Business - Ohio

With the Holidays season around the corner. I was wanting to know if anyone is planning a get together or dinner for expedite friends. We seem to always do it at the Expedite Expo, but nothing later in the year. I'm all for opening up our shop for a Expediter Holiday get together. Anyone else...

After seeing a post about a Expedite driver that was killed. I thought I would post the five keys to the Smith System for drivers. I had a school bus pull out in front of me last week as I was going down the street I live on. I called the school system where the bus was from and talked to the...

Mayfield Express LLC starts lease to own program drivers. Mayfield Express LLC has a private company that will do a lease to own with drivers that have six months in expediting with a major expediting carrier. The trucks are 2006 and newer and the lease is set up on a maxium four year lease to...

Drivers that can't find a room near the Expo you can get a room here at Athletes in Action Sports Complex and Retreat Center The rooms start at $40.00 a night and they do have parking for some D units and lots of parking for cargo vans. This campus is the former Ohio Veterans Children's Home in...

Today I got a call at our office about repairing a roof on an Expedite truck for a new truck owner. I told the caller to send them on in and we would help them out. I walked in our shop and the truck that was in the bay at the shop took me back to when I started in 1995. It was a newer truck...

The sun can do more damage to your face than you think in a truck. Click on the link below to see. Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

As the Expo gets near I was wanting to know if there is going to be a cookout after the Expo. We are willing bring down a Mayfield Express 53 foot reefer trailer to keep things in if there is a cookout.

I was looking up some things on the web and came across a article that was wrote about Roberts Express back in 1998. It was a great article and a great read. I thought I would post the link to article on here for everyone to enjoy. Roberts Rules the Road | Fast Company

After all these folks do for us who is your favorite Moderator?

How much has Expediting changed since you started? The old days of Expediting was so much different almost 18 years ago for me. Expediters Online hadn't even started up. Roberts Express was the big Expedite carrier. If you had a 60 inch sleeper you was in heaven with a big sleeper. We all had...

XPO Logistics Raises $137 Million in Stock Offering William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor | Mar 21, 2012 6:05PM GMT The Journal of Commerce Online - News Story Global Trade | Supply Chain Management | Freight Brokers | Logistics + Economy Proceeds may be used to fund acquisitions in...

We signed a truck on with Try Hours a few weeks ago and I must say that it has been very nice so far. No calls in the middle of the night from drivers that need fuel because they load 50% of the total payable's of the load on the Com Data card, not just the line haul. Some carriers only load a...

I know a team that I consider friends that have slowed down to increase their truck MPG. By doing this they also saved a lot of money in fuel costs. You would be surprised how high you can increase MPG when you slow down. Team Caffee from FedEx Custom Critical has a Blog on EO in regards to it...

So how many years does everyone have in the transpotation industry? Dreamer made a good point about this in the EHOF post.

We are looking for a group of people that can meet every year at the EXPEDITE EXPO that wants to be apart of the Expediters Hall of Fame. The site has done very well and has had almost 14,000 hits over the last year with not many people knowing about it. The Expediters Hall of Fame is not owned...

We just signed on our first truck with Try Hours and would like to hear how other Try Hours Teams are doing. My older brother and his wife will be driving team for them once again and said they loved it. All of our other trucks are on with Panther Expedited Services and we are happy with...

What is the most famous Expedite Trucks? I can only think of two. The first one and the most famous is the Little Duce Coupe of Glen and Janice Rice. The other one is the Stars and Strips of Phil and Diane Madsen. I don't know that is the name of the Madsen truck. But that is what I have always...

As we close out the first month of the year I would like to ask how everyone's year going so far? Our year started off better than last year and we are up as a fleet on everything. That is to be expected as we have grown our fleet by four trucks for the same time last year. I hope everyone is...

After having a major problems with a truck stop shop that we have used for the last five years, we have made a choice to change to another national truck stop chain. So what truck stop chain do you like to use?