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RE: Tired of everyone going OVM I believe you are correct in the correlation of clicks and bucks, but I can assure you of one certainty, no Moderator ever considers advertisers or their ad costs when removing, locking, archiving or editing any thread or post. Problems arise when someone posts...

A couple of carriers pay a percentage, but most of them pay a flat rate. Some pay a fixed, per mile, FSC; at least one carrier pays a percentage of the tariff plus a weekly adjusted FSC for all authorized loaded and deadhead miles; some carriers pay flat rate plus FSC at a rate that varies by...

I have a set and, since installing them on my van, I have not had any ice or slush buildup. They are quiet and don't interupt the smooth wiper operation. I hope they work as well in the winter as they have this past month. I also installed a $32 set of Michelin wipers that hug the windshield...

Suds. You are correct in your observation. The EO forums have recently been plagued by excessive off-topic threads, outright insults and other inappropriate comments by all manner of individuals. Recently, the Moderators of these forums have been accused of bashing an individual when all...

If you were only in Seville for 20 minutes, your last position polling on the Qualcomm may have been 30 miles or so closer to the shipper than the other trucks in Seville. Customer may have been ready to go home, or needed a smoke break, and told your carrier he wanted the quickest pickup...

A wise choice. Welcome to the EO FOrum

MiGuy. One persons poor situation based on little information about an unknown location with an unspecified carrier does not help anyone to make a decision about buying a van or entering this business. I said nice post to Underdog because he showed us a breakdown of his revenue and miles from...

Don't give up on Ft Wayne so easily. The no expediters sign at the T/S referes to the parking in front of the restaurant. Expediter vans may park in the rear where the big trucks park. There's a bull pen area back there where the vans park. Good restaurant across the street from the T/S (not...

Thanks Dog; good post.

BTW, That's Public highschool Diploma ;-{

PhD - Education

RE: FedEx Custom Critical Express Centers They never got made a me for towing a few trucks ;-}

RE: FedEx Custom Critical Express Centers For the benefit of the non-FedEx Custom Critical folks, and perhaps others, here's an explanation of the ExpressCenter (EC) situation, as I understand it. The former Roberts Express business model provided for a pickup within 90 minutes if the shipper...

Most of the expedite carriers follow some form of the former Roberts Express business model which provided for a pickup within 90 minutes if the shipper was located with 25 miles of an ExpressCenter. Delivery times were determined by programming trucks average speed at 45 miles per hour, plus a...

First thing you could do to make reading your post a lot easier is to remove the caps lock. Upper case is difficult to read. Smaller paragraphs also make you information more enjoyable to read, Only you can know if you are over reacting. Most of us n this business would be happy to have...

Effective Sunday, Oct 28, 15 ExpressCenters will be consolodated with the remaining ExpressCenters. Letters have been sent to those that don't subscribe to the weekly newletter. The following is a list of those Centers deleted BAY (Bay City, Mich.) BPK (Bedford Park, Ill.) DET (Detroit...

Sorry Red, I misread your post 3-4 times and couldn't decipher it until the others answered. I agree. We often get the same comments, particularly from the smaller companies that usually use their local P and D companies.

>Now I am not looking to cause any arguments or disagreements >but I was curious about something, in the course of the >average week how often do you folks have a customer comment >at your delivery,"I had no idea Fed Ex did this type of >work". Is it 1 in 10,1 in 3 or somewhere in between.I...

22 diesel vs 16 gas mpg for 500K miles at todays average and the fuel cost is just about a wash

The presence of animals in a surface expedite truck is often among the reasons that drivers are not invited to have their truck designated as a WG truck.