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At this moment, career trucker Glen Rice, who is well known to many in the expediting community, is in the hospital because of DVT. He made his delivery (as "Keep on truck'n" Glen Rice is prone to do) and went to the hospital where he was diagnosed with heart failure and multiple blood clots in...

That's an interesting point. If the new rules stick, there will certainly be times when that mandated 30 minute stop, or number of stops on long runs, will bump a driver beyond the point when the shipping and receiving department closes, pushing the pick up or delivery into the next day, or...

I have questions and concerns about the new rules too, still unanswered, but finding a safe place to park is not among them. How is finding a safe place to park under the new rules any different from finding a safe place to park under the old rules? We're in straight trucks. Parking is not...

It is a serious matter, Zorry, to accuse someone of manipulating facts, especially when that someone has written for publications, and even edited one for a time, that people rely upon for industry information. I have not once manipulated a fact in my writings, blog or this Open Fourm. Now...

Thank you, TruckingSurv. Since you seem open to it, let me share a way to think about Landstar that is not commonly expressed. Some folks like to compare Landstar to their centralized-dispatch carrier and say Landstar is different because dispatch is decentralized. That's true, but what does...

Our numbers are what they are, and there is no need for a grain of salt with them. That's exactly what we did in 2012. But I know of no Landstar Express America BCO that grosses over $300,000 a year and I want to be quick to point out that I was not the one that mentioned the number. Our numbers...

What facts are manipulated? None that I know of. Specifics? People reading the Open Forum in search of facts have found me to be a consistently reliable source for the same, because manipulating facts is not something I do.

It was tolerable until it became fundamentally unfair. And I like your use of the word "tolerable." There was a lot of unecessary beeps that we did not appreciate but put up with anyway, because taken as a whole, the carrier choice was the right one. One of the things that I enjoyed there, and...

As I said, we did well at our former carrier until things changed. When things changed, that's the point where it became flawed and undesirable. Someone asked me just yesterday if I wished we had moved to Landstar sooner. I said no. What I wish is that our former carrier had not changed. We...

In our case, a 45 mph schedule and extended winter vacation does not mean we are not working. The three weeks we spent at home in December were spent in training for our new business and in deep study of the materials given there. Time out of service on the road, or worked in between preplaned...

The key words are "busy as you want to be." Add the fact that we made more money in that week's loads than we typically made in a "busy" week at our former carrier. That has become the norm. We run a load or two a week now and make more money than we did before. If we were not developing a new...

Let me comment on one of the features that makes Landstar different and more pleasant. It does not happen all the time but it happens every now and again that we have a great deal of flexibility on how and when we pick up and/or deliver the load. This is with the same customers (or same kinds of...

After some time off, we went back in service on Monday morning, May 13 in Humble, TX (Houston). Later that day we received and accepted a load offer to pick up on Tuesday in Austin and deliver on Thursday or Friday (our choice) in Seattle. On the way to Seattle, we got pre-dispatched to pick up...

Landstar invade privacy? Respect for carrier? Where did that come from? I have talked numerous times with drivers who wanted to know more about the company and were referred to me by Landstar Express America Operations. In each case, the operations people contacted me first and requested my...

If you call Landstar's main recruiting number (885) 578-7226 and ask to speak to Landstar Express America Operations, people there can give you names of van teams. The LEAM ops people are the same people who staff Landstar tables at EO events.

If that were so, thousands of drivers would make repeated trips to the buffet, intent on earning a failed physical and collecting the check at taxpayer expense.

We are at the peak of regulatory events right now as we set up the new business. The answer to your question is, never. All businesses are regulated but few are regulated more than trucking. Owners of hospitals and nuclear power plants may disagree, but for the ordinary Joe wanting to start a...

That ain't the half of it. As a self-employed independent contractor, it has been a long, long time since I have applied for a job as an employee or hired an employee. Now gearing up to do some hiring, I am shocked and dismayed by how the government has turned employers into mini government...

I'm thinking about drivers with borderline blood pressure. You can be fine in the morning but over the limit in the afternoon, or fine all day long until you suffer from White Coat Syndrome, where your anxiety and blood pressure rise when you are undergoing the physical exam. One number too high...

FMCSA proposes rule to immediately transmit medical exam results to state licensing agencies Excerpt: "FMCSA says the new portion of the rule proposed this week also includes a requirement that FMCSA transmit medical information electronically for all CDL holders to state drivers license...