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Absolutely, Positivily Correct! FedEx is toast. Panther is immune. And Bruno is good looking!

No I don't.

It would be easier if fleet owners would be willing to subject themselves to the same background check they and their carriers subject their drivers to. If you are looking for a way to screen predatory fleet owners out of the industry, or to protect drivers and carriers from financially weak...

Can you name a business of any kind where that is not true? And about the averages, so what? For any induvidual, far more important than how and what the masses do is how and what you do. If the failure rate for a brand new business person in any endeavor you care to name is say 90%, to me...

The prospective team in question is talking about beginning in a fleet owner's truck. Would not the fleet owner be the one to provide the knowledge of the freigtht centers and maintenance issues? It was in our case. We entered the business with the ink still wet on our CDLs and having no idea...

A lot expediters happily gave up the toilet because it meant getting rid of the boss too.

Your source?

A straight truck with two drive axles in California is required to chain up both drive axles (diagram) when chains are required. Washington only requires that one drive axle be chained. So if you have two drive axles and are carrying chains to be legal in California, you are automatically legal...

We will be in service, available and hopefully under load. We will also be giving thanks for the life and work we so enjoy.

A growing number of expediters with a variety of carriers are reporting slower freight. How long it will be until freight recovers and how strong the recovery will be is anyone's guess. So if you choose to enter the business now, there is no question about it, you will be doing so at a slow...

Gary, Your story is informative and accurate as far as I know but you did not address the issue I raised; that of accurately comparing revenue between one opportunity and another. Speaking from my own experience with the same carrier, if you are given the opportunity to do so but choose not...

And this relates to expediting how?

You might want to reconsider your claim. It is simply false that TripPak "paperwork always gets lost." Diane and I have run well over 500 loads and used TripPak to send in the paperwork on every one. Not once has a TripPak envelope been lost. We can count on one hand the times a log book sheet...

Diane and I are among them, but not for lack of trying to "buy American" as some call it. At one point in our lives, Diane drove a Toyota and I drove a Honda. Feeling an urge to do the patriotic thing and needing to replace the Toyota, we bought a Ford. In the first year, the Ford broke down...

I don't want to minimize or soft peddle the negative effects of a GM bankrupcy. A recent CNN article describes them well. Even if the numbers source is dismissed as bias and the numbers are reduced by half, a GM bankrupcy would have a negative economic impact. But the problem is, bailout or...

If it's clean, it's my favorite.

18 axles! With three passes through a New York toll booth that rig could eliminate that state's deficit.

GM's failure would be a sad story to be sure. The 1 in 10 statistic that has been batted around is a bit of a stretch. As I read it, 1 in 10 jobs are tied to the automotive industry, not to GM. It is ironic for GM to be tossing the number out. A lot of those 1 in 10 jobs are in brand new plants...

Would it be a nightmare or just reaping what they sewed? If GM fails, there will not be a shortage of cars. It will take some time but the economically viable components of the company will find new life somewhere else. The non-viable components will disappear. A major bailout will not change...