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No self-respecting expediter is without a lawn chair. Here are some passing time at the TA East in Ontario, CA. All said they are dispatched and will roll under load on Monday. At least three carriers are represented in this group.

When you can afford to run for $1.50 a mile but charge a company $1.75, are you not acting on the exact same greed? The extra money that goes into your pocket could have been retained by the shipper and used to pay their people more. Or, you could take direct control of the extra $0.25 cents per...

This was shared by Load One, LLC on Facebook. Thought vanners here would enjoy it too.

The first thing I would do would be to get clear on the facts of the case, which is impossible to do based only on the OP and the quoted news story. One fact that can be known is that the actual requirement is: 399.11(B)(2) "Can read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse...

Vanners have protested loudly in the Open Forum about Flying J's that did not allow them to park in front. Perhaps their voices have been heard.

When we were with FedEx Custom Critical, it happened almost all the time that a friend might be stuck in a slow streak while we were running hard. And it happened that when we were stuck in a streak where we could not buy a load, friends were running their wheels off. At Landstar Express...

This is a very good article; well written, informative, easy to read. I look forward to reading the subsequent installments. The history of CARB is what it is. In the history of Diane's and my one-truck, owner-operator business, CARB is the organization that threatened to increase our...

Shirnk wrap cost per mile would need to be factored into the profit and loss statement.

A friend (not an expediter) recently bought a used box truck that he intends to vinyl wrap to use as a mobile billboard to promote his retail business. While this has nothing to do with FedEx, I know that a lot of FedEx Custom Critical drivers have gained some experience with vinyl wrap. I am...

There are many things to like about EO, but if I had to pick only one, it would be the sense of community it provides; the sense that you are not alone out here and that we have friends and colleagues on the road with us. It's more than the expediters we meet and visit with at truck stops...

I sometimes think about the trucking career I would have had if I had entered the industry as a young man and was willing to leave all hopes of a normal family life behind to live and work on the road. It seems to me that the big money is found on big-rig oversize, heavy-haul loads. That's not...

Another aspect of "the perfect run" for us has to do with being obviously and urgently needed, and appreciated. It's the kind of run where the pick-up is immediate, maybe on a Saturday or Sunday at a business that is normally closed on the weekends. Someone came in special to put that truly hot...

Since the dispatcher did not do so, maybe you, as a safety-conscious contractor who cares about his company and fellow drivers, should call safety and report that they have a dispatcher who seems to be pushing a driver beyond safe limits.

There was reference in another thread to the "perfect load." That got me to wondering, what is the perfect load? Thinking about it, the closest thing to a perfect load Diane and I have had was the one where we got dispatched one morning to pick up freight but did not move because the load...

Truck details?

We once ran under such a contract. The fleet owner left himself wide open to a driver using the truck as an RV and providing nothing in return. To terminate, the fleet owner would have to provide 30 days advance notice, giving the driver an additonal 30 days to party with the truck. Many...

Even if it is true what your dispatcher said, there is no guarantee that it would work out the same way if that Detroit to TN load was offered again. You could just as easily get marooned in TN or Laredo. When it comes to load acceptance, you can only make decisions in the present with the...

Yes and no. The load was put on our truck because we were willing to go to Canada and were a team that could drive it straight through. It went deep into Canada and a team was needed to get it there quickly. The solo driver in the yellow truck expedited it to us, we completed the rest of the...

I doubt that. DOT is very large. There are not enough of those trucks out there to earn the kind of money that would make a DOT-wide payoff feasable. Every once in a while, a news story surfaces about a DOT official, usually a low or mid-level official, who took bribes to look the other way...

That well may come to pass but keep in mind that these trucks are not registered as commecial vehicles. Most have no DOT numbers on them. A cop writing the wreck may not even know or care that the truck is being used for commercial purposes. The don't look much different than some private guy...