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Or you make decent money, manage it well and retire before your body gives out.

Yeah, what he said.

Very true. But driver turnover and a driver shortage are two different things. When a driver leaves and is quickly replaced, that's a turnover but not a shortage. A shortage would be when a driver leaves and cannot be quickly replaced for lack of other drivers or prospective drivers. As long...

CSA has turned things upside down. When it was first announced, I cheered it, thinking that CSA would motivate carriers to hire good drivers and weed the bad ones out. But what has happened instead is that customers, carriers and insurance companies have become hyper-focused on carrier CSA...

I agree. I have listened to carriers cry about a driver shortage for years but have yet to see a load of freight sitting on a dock because no driver or truck could be found to haul it. Shippers may have a hard time covering a load when the pick up time is 4:00 p.m. and the order went in at 8:00...

Last June, Panther was purchased by ABF. Very little has been said in the Open Forum about changes in the company since then. Last year, Bradley Jacobs purchased Express-1. Similarly, very little has been said in the Open Forum about changes in the company since then. For those of you who...

That view has been around for a long time but I'm not buying it any more. It's as if the carriers are saying, "Gee, ain't it awful that we have no choice but to hire every scum bag that walks through the door." They could up the standards anytime they wished on their own initiative. And where...

This would not be difficult for motor carriers to do. Why is it that they do not? If there are companies out there that do, I'd love to hear more about them.

If you were told a hurricane was coming but did not believe it -- really did not believe it -- would you prepare? How would your thoughts and actions been different if you genuinely believed a hurricane would not come?

The Florida vacation house Diane and I have is six feet above sea level and 200 yards from the Intracostal Waterway on the East Coast. A thin barrier island separates the Atlantic Ocean from the shore, forming the waterway. If a hurricane was predicted to hit that area, Diane and I already...

If one of these reserved parking places smells of urine, does the next user get his or her money back?

When you're not on the ground in the middle of it, it's easy to oversimplify and armchair supervise these things. Say the military magically received immediate authorization to deploy their equipment in a way that is not part of their mission, and say they were able to move 500 generators to...

When it affects your parking place and truck, it becomes your business. Everyone responds in their own way to such events. I would have kept after the guy, expaining to him that his act brought a new person into his life who has now made him my personal project. I would then proceed to take...

As xmudman said, there is no shame in talking this out with a counselor or therapist. And as ChanceMaster said, you are savey enough to recognize your anxiety. When you get the chance, you might want to visit a bookstore to review books on the topic of emotional well being following a...

Military to Deliver Fuel to Storm-Ravaged Region

Part of me agrees with you when you talk about prepping. But there is a compassionate part too that wishes these people the best as the struggle through their circumstances. As expediters, we take prepping for granted. It's something we do every time we hit the road and while we are out. We...

I voiced high praise for FEMA elsewhere in the Open Forum but am uterly perplexed by their and seemingly every other government agency's absence from State Island. I asked this a few days earlier, Deville. Let me ask it again. What support do you need that expediters might be able to provide?

I'm not saying the race should happen. I'm saying that since it is going to happen anyway, it can serve as a stage from which attention can be directed to hurricane victims. With the outrage now building in response to the decision to go ahead with the race, that appears to be happening already...

Whatever your opinion of the race may be, it presents a good opportunity for disgruntled storm victims to get their voices heard. If I was one such person, I would take full advantage of the high-visibility event the race will be and organize a protest at the starting line. With all the media...

Here's an interesting article about gasoline availability in the Northeast: Sandy Bottles Up the East Coast Gasoline Market