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We attended the Skills challenge two years ago but I do not remember seeing you guys there. We had a great time at that skills challenge, particularly since I beat Bob's second place driving award by placing first. Due to fuel prices and not being really close to Green, we made the decision...

You are right it was just an event and we made it through it. Another fear faced and conquered! Having our emergency fund takes away so much stress as our truck has not had any warranty for a long time. IRT is pretty close the bill was almost 2000.00 without the cost of the rental car to get...

Cindy & Brian so sorry to hear about you and your families loss. You have had a tough year.

The fuel pump finally went out. Took it almost 6 months to finally give up after visiting several shops.

I should have been a little more clear this happened on Friday before Labor Day weekend so that is why we rented a car and came home as they would not work on the truck till Tuesday! I think my fear of the unknown is what keeps me asking Bob a million questions. This time though it went very...

Breaking down beside the road! It finally happened and I am happy to say we lived through it and we are still married! We had been having an intermittent problem with our truck that had been driving Bob nuts plus in and out of shops. Just like any motor when we would go into a shop the...

Heck I do not think Bob has ever created a record when he is polishing on the truck, greasing the truck and doing general maintenance. Usually on the weekends it is us taking care of the truck not going into a shop so no records. There is always tons to do and no way we will could ever say...

Your horses are only stopped for you! They look like they are moving on to me. We have also sat watching loads being dispatched, drivers calling in, and loads being called in. What an eye opener to see all of this. We put on head sets to listen to the calls between customers and also when...

We are one example of someone who started with ATBS and after one year moved on what a mess. Just as with Expedite Companies some fit your business and others do not. ATBS did not fit our needs and we moved on to John Turner due to a great recommendation of a good friend. One of the things we...

All the above! Our weekends are usually so darn busy I am ready for Monday just to rest up. Weekends are just a great time to get everything ship shape for another week and do some of the fun things we usually at this time of year do not get done. We also make time on the weekends to play on...

Our funniest happening was in Wichita KS with USXpress. We were told to go there to pick up a load on New Year’s Eve and the load canceled. Our daughter lived in Wichita at the time so that was fine with us. We parked the truck in a strip shopping mall that was no longer open. We ended up...

We do tip sometimes. If the attendant is on the ball, we get an extra towel; the attendant is busting their behind to keep up, attitude and a few other reasons. Hard to believe though that this does not happen very often!

You are going to have to work with your owner as FCC is not involved with Owner/Driver situations.

We have been looking for a house and a few acres for several months now still have not found the right one. We have noticed over and over that probably 99% of the houses are in some stage of foreclosure with a few in a short sale situation. The common factor in all of the houses we have looked...

You are starting down the road that many of us took including us. Empty nest syndrome! We started doing our research way ahead of time and reading everything we could, putting money away, and trying to get mentally prepared. Decide if you want to work for an owner or buy your own truck...

I use Streets and Trips and really like it as a back up to our GPS. Since you own the programs you have not pop ups and have control of different overlays you can create. I also track all of loads using this program I use a point for pickup and delivery. I also mark hard to find areas with a...

Dave, That is kind of a duh post. We work for a company where we get a percentage of what the load pays. There is no doubt we are getting that, there is also no doubt that FCC is charging the customer enough for them to make a profit and for us to make a profit. We see on our settlement...

OVM you make my point: It's supposed to be a partnership...not a dictatorship... The partnership goes both ways I am not a dictatorship nor is our company. I am not sharing my profit margin with FCC and I do not expect them to share with me. I take the loads that make us money and refuse...

It does not matter to us either what the carrier makes the bottom line is what we look at. If the load pays enough we take it. We would jump on the loads you are talking about. When I figure our expenses I figure our fuel as expenses so I know what we need per mile to run and make a profit...

To us it is much easier to have our carrier pay us to move then to look up loads. That is a personal preference as I am sure Dave you find some really good paying loads for people you help out and your drivers.