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If your toting more than one load for different customers, you're no longer expediting, you're LTLing; semantics perhaps, but there's a difference.

Dad: Many of the expedite carriers located in New England can be found at the following lin: http://www.expeditecarrier.com/search/New_England/ If somethinmg interests you there, come back to the Forum and do a search for info on that company, or just ask for comments from a member, or two...

We've been told by a senior manager of one of the largest expedite carriers that "the majority of all expedited freight loads, by far, are in the 5000# or less category" That doesn't necessaraily mean that a small straight truck will get all the work. There are other considerations such as...

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An article about Electronic On board Recorders (EOBR) should be of interest to all log keeping owners and operators. See article here: http://www.expeditersonline.com/artman/publish/article_005344.html As the article indicates, the FMCSA is proposing a regulation that will require many HOS...

Not mentioned above is the most common delivery arrival time in expedite seems to be 0100-0200 with a delivery time of 0630-0800. After snoozing in the seat for 4-5 hrs and delivering in the morning, you won't have enough loggable hours to get to a hotel to reset your clock. Day trucks and...

I'm calling you on 29 now but you don't answer; wassuup with that?

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Lousy T/S, dirty restrooms so shower probably no better, but they have van parking for overnite at the corner of Ecourse and Inkster. The omelets and home fries at the attached "Grandma's Kitchen" are among the best in Detroit.

Mr Wagon: The following italicised words you posted in a deleted thread are interpreted by me that you indeed wish to embark on a personal vendetta against the carrier (name deleted) to which your former owner was leased, so for you to accuse me of being unfair, by stating such, is...

Chuck: Back in November you told us, in this forum, that you intended to hold your owners truck hostage if he didn't pay you what you believed you had coming your way. You receivedd the following advice on 18 Nov.: There is no shortage of disrespect, in these fora, for those owners who fail...

tday: Welcome to the Expedited Freight Information Center DO you have a CDL? Do you have comm'l driving experience? Do you own a truck? Do you need to be home every night?, every weekend? Do you have any working capital to invest in a business? Are you just looking for a job driving or do you...

An example: A solo in a D truck earns $1000 while a team earning 67% more gets $1670. If the team truck owner gives his co-driver the typical 20%, or $334, the owner will have the remainder, $1336. The team will also have driven 67% more miles and pay 67% more for fuel and also have a...

Washington and Oregon are the two States where we have neither picked-up nor delivered. We've been there, as well as Alaska and Hawaii, but not as expediters.

I've spent the best part of the last 17+ years expediting through 46 States and 3 Canadian Provinces. We have traveled over 1.5 million miles in a total of 5 vans and throughout this time we have been approached by all manner of folks, including the young and old, workers and retirees...

FedEx Custom Critical's annual revenue statistics for the years 2002-2004 indicate that their fleet average for trucks where there were two people in a truck for at least 60% of the loads are as follows. A team in a van will earn 33% more than a solo, A team in a C truck will earn 69% more than...

RE: YOU HAVE TO QUIT EXPEDITING - WHAT WILL YOU DO A backflow prevention device is commonly installed on a lawn sprinkler system so that water cannot be siphoned back into my household water supply from the undergroung sprinklers. If not tested annually for proper operation, and the backflow...

If you make a monthly Deposit for 20 Years of $ 2048.00 for an Interest Rate of 6.500 % compounded Quarterly, you'd have $1,000,207.76

Good find! Hours of fun.