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Recently there have been a few discussions on here about a few encounters with cargo van and sprinter owner operators allowing more than one carrier to “lease” their services. I believe that the thinking behind this is that two carriers would mean twice as many opportunities. Some even claim...

Well, I'm not in Michigan, but one of my owner ops was until today. We got him out.

So....how many of you Michiganders are still sitting at home, waiting to get a load out this week?

Are you an O/O with All State? My info is all first-hand, baby! No hearsay. They are currently running past 2 month cycles, and they don't answer or return phone calls or emails in accounts payable.. As for nations, we wrote them off last year when they exceeded 100 days to pay. There are...

Might as well tell em. Not a lot of people want that kind of responsibility. It's the "mommy culture."

Warning: They will not babysit you. From what I hear, they will not advance you 50% when you accept the load like some do, and they probably won't pay you extra to relocate to some predetermined "express center", just so you can sit with 8 other vehicles sportin' the very same logo, just in...

Not sure how much property you need to own to be considered serious. They are a smart carrier who who obviously has not overspent themselves. Barrett Directline does a good business.

Bolt seems to pay its vendor/partners like clockwork as well, which is more than I could ever say for All State or Nations.

I don't think I'm alone in saying that I don't understand this post at all. JB Hunt is out of business? What does JB Hunt have to do with us if they did go belly up? Too much medication? Too little?

YRC will indeed affect expedite, especially if your company ever hauls loads for Exact Express. The work won't go away though. It will just get absorbed by another 3PL.

I've only had one incident with Wally. In Greer, SC, the the overnight "bus patrol" informed me that Walmart had a corporate no-idle policy. It was a sticky summer night and I had let my truck run as I went inside to shop. Unfortunately, my shih-tzu pup cannot shop with us, so I was...

Nuthin like a good "Hooah!" to start the day and make me proud to be an American!

I dropped in Manassas area yesterday around noon and decided to bug out for the Carolinas. Still got caught in Warfield, VA and decided I'd rather fight the snow with daylight than the blackness of night. Picked up in Raleigh this morning for a Monday drop in BHM. Glad I didn't stay.

If near the airport, there is also a Love's just west of it. Two Pilots side by side a couple miles north of Love's. I dropped by the airport, ended up at the twin Pilots, and loaded out of the same zip code. :)

Ya know x06col, I might just bring on a truck or two after the New Year. But no clowns please. :D

We don't know who they were.....or what they were doing....but their legacy remains! Carhenge! Where the demons dwell, Where the banshees live and they do live well. Carhenge! Where a man's a man, And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan.

Actually, there has been a time when that was true. Last December, there were straight truck loads being booked by carriers at the O/O base rate ($1.20). Carrier rates for their own shippers dropped from about 2.40-2.50, incl. fsc, down to about $1.50, incl. fsc, just trying to book the load...

Yeah. I sure wouldn't stir a legal hornet's nest unless I knew without a doubt my case would stand. Better make sure an attorney is willing to stand with you through it all before you begin. It might come back to bite them in the rear.

Re: I am interested in a hot load board for expedited freight Do you think that if someone had access to one, they would give you an edge and tell you? If you are a leased O/O, you best bet is to find a carrier whom you can trust to tell you where to be. The rules are changing, so what you...

That is, if they actually have a case. Court is only good if you have a case. If they only drove for two weeks, it sounds like there are greater issues. If they spent $1400, but they ditched the truck 800 miles from the owner, then you most likely have no case. People generally profess no...