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That's not a good trade. The upside gain of "a little extra cash" nowhere near compensates you for the downside risks of putting a driver in a van and a van on the road.

Thank you.

In addition to the cost of running your truck per mile, the cost of sitting per day must also be considered. What's better, one or two runs a week that leave you sitting for half the time but pay $2.00 a mile, or several runs a week that pay $1.25 per mile but keep you moving most of the time...

Congratulations! Regarding your BA or BS, consider a double major with a practical course of study like business or chemistry (something that you will use in the real world) and a major that many people consider impractical like English, Philosophy or other liberal arts. I believe you will be...

That's a decision only you can make. There is the dumb stuff and there is the money. Being money motivated myself, I would think that the money would have something to do with your decision to stay or leave.

I'd have to do some thinking about how to communicate this in a way that would be truly get through and be fully understood by the policy makers and dispatchers at FedEx Custom Critical. A lot of drivers would have a hard time putting this into words as well but they know it is real. "This" is...

Now settled into an RV park about 25 miles south of Castaic, CA. in these 100 degree days, we are enjoying AC powered with shore power through Sunday morning when we will check out and spend the night elsewhere. We'd stay Sunday too but the park has no vacancies then. Dispatched to pick up...

Dispatched on a run that picks up Monday. It's a long wait for a pick up but the money is worth it. That gives us three full days free to spend in the Los Angeles area. Surfing the web now and considering the options.

How do you scan and transmit from the truck?

GPS Problem

Laid over in the Los Angeles area. In service, waiting for load offers.

Diane and I have gone out of our way to score only two promotional items. They are durable shoulder bags and the stick-on calendars that Dakota mentioned. These are the small ones that fit nicely on a sun visor. As to their effectiveness, I can't tell you what names are on the bags we have but...

It has been a couple of weeks since Diane and I have seen any super-low-pay load offers or repeated offers. But we have been very busy too, running pre-dispatched on almost every run and running non-stop for days at a time on back-to-back long runs. I'm wondering if others also have seen a...

OK. The question is answered. I am blind and the post was not removed. Thanks, Leo.

Am I blind or have one or more topics been removed from this FedEx Custom Critical forum without notice or explanation? I have looked carefully but have been unable to find the lengthy thread in which numerous contractors and drivers complained bitterly and very specifically about load offers...

I spoke with Jeff Jones last week. He told me that all of the remaining BR-units he had on his lot have now been sold. The aging units were sold at a loss to clear out the inventory. No one at FedEx Custom Critical has contacted Jones about building more. None of the money to build or buy...

The National Bureau of Economic Research is the entity that officially dates the beginning and end of U.S. recessions. It announced today that what has become known as the Great Recession ended in June, 2009. It began in December, 2007, making this the longest and deepest economic slowdown since...

I hear that!

Slush Busters have been mentioned many times in the Open Forum but now that CSA 2010 has made nit picking today's fashion talk of the industry, I must ask, might a nit picker scale cop consider Slush Busters to be an obstruction to the driver's field of view? If installed according to the...

Most truck stops sell an air hose with a truck tire chuck on one end and a glad hand connector on the other. This enables semi truck drivers to use the truck's air compressor to inflate their tires. Glad hands can be installed on straight trucks by most any trailer shop or truck repair facility...