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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.

What a fun place to send a postcard from! She I am sure will love it!

Bruno you must not have recieved this memo a few years ago about FSC: Fuel Surcharge on All Shipments You will receive a fuel surcharge that will pay you a flat rate per mile on all shipments. No matter what customer you are serving, you will receive a fuel surcharge. Fuel Surcharge on All...

We have always been told move to the area of the country you hate the most and you will never go there. I think there is a lot of truth in that statement.

Hey Dan if you can get her a card from Alaska I am sure she would love it! Molly also said to mention she is not thrilled you have called her another girls name! She does send her regard though with her nose slightly in the air!

A thank your from Kelly who the class is now in awe of! A thank you to everyone from Mrs. Glenn’s class and Kelly of Academy of the Sacred Heart, we are all enjoying all the postcards and looking up where they come from. You guys have the coolest job and get to go all over the place. We will...

I think Bruno explained basically why FedEx Custom Critical went to the Load Opportunities instead of each truck getting ten minutes to decide all trucks who receive the load opportunity get ten minutes to decide at the same time. The customer gets the best service and all trucks that were...

Wow Moose that 15 minute window really adds a lot of stress I would be a nervous wreck over that. The shorter the load the less time you have. When we are on loads less than 300 miles we rarely stop for anything. As Steve has said though on the longer runs we have more than enough time to get...

Not only does the slower speed help your fuel mileage it helps your stress level. We have found that driving slower reduces our stress level and at the end of our shift we are not exhausted and uptight about fighting with traffic. We do not fight with traffic anymore we just roll along. When we...

One of the reasons we love expediting is the customers! More often then not we are dealing with a different type of customer and customer mind set then we were driving for USX. We are also treated very different by the company we are leased to then we were at USX which in turn makes us even...

Pelicn that is one my huge pet peeves also. I am slowing down easily so as not to disturb Bob trying to sleep and a car has to get right in front of me so I end up braking harder than anticipated. I also have to wonder about the mothers that do this to their children and it seems it is usually...

After reading Pelicn’s post on escort loads gone badly I thought I might bring up the other side. We have done very short escort loads to over 2000 mile escort loads and overall I would say they have gone pretty well. We have been lucky enough to do escort loads with friends and still be friends...

Pelicn I look at it this way; we are business people first and then truckers second. We are pretty darn proud of both titles though and think we really have the best of both worlds.