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I call 'em like I see 'em, Bruno.

The issue is not people sayig FedEx is not the best. The issue is an ex-contractor saying he is doing so much better in another opportunity when he never gave the FedEx ER-unit opportunity a fair chance. It is misleading to new readers to tell half the story. His decision to leave FedEx was good...

All this talk about Panther Driver Council elections is well and good, but would it not be more appropriate to post it in the Panther forum where Panther drivers can kick it around? This is one of the few things that come up on the Open Forum that really are carrier specific.

I happen to believe that FedEx Custom Critical is the best game in town, which is why I stay. If I knew of a better game for the kind of trucking we want to do, lifestyle we live and money we want to make, I'd go to the better game. There is more to this than what I'd like to think and I take...

The ideal company would offer me more loads than I could haul, let me turn down all that I wished, permitted me to drive only where I wanted to drive, get me home under load on demand, and pay me more than I was worth. Oh yea. Upon signing on with this company, I should be able to sit in the...

Pizza delivery?

Reports of generator (APU) issues regularly surrace here. Clocking our 5,000th trouble-free hour on our generator got me to thinking that it might be nice to hear some generator success stories. They would be useful to people considering a generator purchase. Our Onan Quiet Diesel 7500...

Lower fuel prices are a bright spot and welcome good news in my view. While the fuel surcharge will drop with the price, so will our operating expenses. In theory, at least, lower costs should make it easier for shippers to ship goods. With cold weather coming, generator use will increase...

I suspect the Trip Pak business will be sold off as a unit to another company that will run it. This would be an opportunity for FedEx Custom Critical, a subsidiary of FedEx Freight, which is a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation to shop around for someone that provides FedEx-like services for...

Here is more detail from the CNN story about DHL: "DHL's 9,500 job cuts are on top of 5,400 job reductions announced earlier this year. After these layoffs, between 3,000 and 4,000 employees will remain at DHL's U.S. operations, the company said. "The company also said it was shutting down...

Contrast this with an automotive pickup we did once at a Toyota plant (we do very little automotive freight). We were in and out in no time and treated well by dock personnel. When I commented on the cleanliness of the plant, the non-union worker spoke of his happiness as an employee and told me...

Maybe that is how this issue will eventually be resolved in the future; the contractor/employee question will be answered by eliminating individual routes and requiring contractors to purchase and operate multiple routes. When someone is an employing or contracting with drivers to run multiple...

The lawsuits and IRS actions in the ongoing debate over the status of FedEx Ground drivers (are they contractors or employees?) is of some interest to expediters, as it has to do with independent contractor status, which most expediters are (or may not be, depending on one's point of view). The...

DHL's future in the U.S. is very much in question. See article

It is very interesting and encouraging to hear that your FedEx Ground business is showing growth. To what do you attribute the increase?

10-4 As I said, the above was not offered specifically with you in mind, but with others too. Best of luck to you, and all of us in dealing with whatever lies ahead.

You can relax. It was a joke.

Thank you for the kind words about Expedite NOW. I woke up this morning thinking about what you wrote and offer the following, not to be harsh, but to present more to think about. It is offered it not with you specifically in mind but also others who, like you, may be experiencing a...

There is a truck frame and axle place next to Fyda Freightliner in Columbus, Ohio that does a fair amount of lift-axle work on trucks of all kinds, including expediters. I don't recall the company name. Fyda people can tell you. They may have or know where to find used lift axles.