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I'd say Greg is right one one count, economy. A second reason was provided by FedEx. When FedEx bought Caliber, Roberts Express, the Expedite Carrier within that corporation, was included in the deal. FedEx had something in the neighborhood of 40,000 pieces of over the road rolling stock...

Those of us that started expediting, prior to the existence of the World Wide Web had to rely on our own experiences and that of those that we met on the road. In the case of Rene' and me, we had no truck driving experience, so we learned the hard way and made a considerable amount of mistakes...

Exclusive use means just that. The customer does not have his freight co-mingled with any other freight. If you have more than one customer's freight on your truck you are now an LTL carrier. I did not invent or develop expedited freight definitions myself. The industry recognized initiator...

In another current thread about cheap freight, the topic of the definition of expedite freight surfaced. One of our Forum members suggested that the truckload carriers also carry expedite freight. The thirty expedite carriers that advertise with Ontimemedia and Expeditersonline generally...

Pappy summed it up well. One driver's cheap freight is another driver's tank of fuel. It's no different in expedite; since we're generally all owner operators, we each have our own idea of cheap, not so cheap, pretty good and great. It would be difficult to get a concensus within any one...

How 'bout the call when the Cue pager beeped, call upon arrival to pickup, call when leaving pickup, call every 4 hours, call when arrive at delivery, call with POD, call when arrive at Layover, call when checking into hotel; all this from pay phones because no one in our shoes ever had a cell...

Ark: Those and other truckload and LTL carriers have what they call Expedite Divisions, but they are hardly expediters in the purest sense. Warehoused freight, however quickly handled and turned around, is not expedite freight.

cevape07 How much money per mile would be enough?

Sounds familiar from or automotive days. Your saga suggests you are neither dock high nor box high, it that so?

Try a trailor repair place as they sell the e-track and might install for you. Also call Jon Mosher at Freightliner of Knoxville. If he can't help, he can get you in the right direction.

RE: Involved with Clinton for President? Be Carefu I'm no fan of either Clinton, but fair's fair. Let's not perpetuate this ongoing controversy. See the following Snopes commentary on this issue. http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp

RE: Independent Contractors/owner operators: what' An O/O can be either an Independant Contractor or an employee of, or to, another party. An Owner/Operator owns and operates a vehicle either for himself or for another party

If you have a detached garage it should be relatively easy to hire a company to jack the building, lay two courses of cinder block on the sill, lower and secure the sill plate to the cinderblock base. you'd need a new door section and rail extension If your garage is attached to the house you'd...

Debbieintroy: You are one of a half dozen folks that have asked the near identical question in the past couple of weeks. There is no shortage of Expeditersonline forum members that would be pleased to help you but, you have to do a lot of homework to get started properly, operate efficiently...

Quick, someone give Pappy a cold shower coupon