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Again, as I pointed out in another thread, and as you point out here, turn down rate improves as pay improves. It's not about flat rate or percentage pay, it's about the money you make. Whatever compensation arrangement you use, your truck costs X amount per mile to operate and a load will pay...

Two motels and a pancake house. Sounds like the beginning of a trucker song. :) Two motels and a pancake house A cat on my truck and my codriver spouse A contractor I became today Living life on the road To earn that pay...

Why, DaveKC, are you injecting the notion of favoritism into this thread? Well, since you did, let me say that FedEx Custom Critical is the last place I would worry about favoritism. I know of cases where dispatchers have been fired for favors. The policies against favoritism are clear and the...

Perhaps it is in the way it is done. On a load we recently completed, it was initially offered at an unprofitable rate. We declined the load. That did two things. It earned us a refusal, thereby reducing our acceptance percentage. It also let dispatch know we were serious about the refusal...

I agree that the acceptance rate would improve on low paying loads if those loads were converted into better paying loads. But I do not agree that a flat-rate system is needed to make that happen. A simple change of price is all it would take. Let's keep our eye on the ball here. It's not about...

News Item: IdleAire says its situation dire "Knoxville-based IdleAire Technologies says in a federal filing that if it doesn't get "immediate working capital," it will be forced to file for bankruptcy." (Source: knoxnews.com)

Exactly right.

I thought it was about response time, and still do. Improving repsonse time is exactly what the new system is all about. Working the bugs and communications issues out may take some time. So what? When things settle in, response time will be improved and FedEx Custom Critical will be able to...

Are you talking about me, Greg? If not, let the following go. If you are, kindly note that I did not characterize my Question for Expediting Veterans About Recession and Cheer Up a Recession is Coming posts as gloom and doom. Nor did I put those posts up for fun. I posted to share my view...

But what would people do for fun? How would they pass their time?

I would not call the thread a nightmare at all, and am finding it very informative. As you pointed out earlier, this is a TEST of the new dispatch system. Complaints voiced here provide valuable information, even complaints from those who do not have the facts, or have not taken the trouble to...

We are not willing to do that. With each load offer, we look at our operating costs and accept or decline loads based on what they pay. No. While we are very proud of our acceptance percentage, that would be the first thing to go if unprofitable offers came in one after the other.

This is a question not about the economy or the industry. It is a question about the personal experience (emotional, mental) of buying fuel at today's prices. Compared to a year or two ago, when fuel was less expensive, how does it feel to buy fuel today? When you return the nozzle to the...

With our carrier (FedEx Custom Critical) it would probably have been set up as a two stop run and the run would cancel when the first part was not received. Arriving early and waiting as you did would have no impact on pay. No detention time would be paid as you were not supposed to be there...

Help me understand what you are saying here. Are you saying broker freight pays more than Panther and FedEx freight? Or is it Panther (to whom you lease your trucks) pays more than FedEx?

Bigger companies serving the expedite market is not a new development, but my guess is people in the Roberts days did not have to keep their eye on competitors like those shown below. As time marches on, I wonder if the only thing left for expediters like us to differentiate ourselves from the...

I checked yesterday at Barnes and Noble. The clerk said it will be available June 3 and can be ordered in advance. I do not know if the stores will stock it. We will buy copy and then pass it on to another driver who promises to view it and pass it on to another driver who does the same.

Since the Bolt stickers were peeled off and the truck was spotted on an even-numbered road, it can only mean that the truck was formerly with FedEx and THAT can only mean that FedEx will be filing bankrupcy by next Tuesday; probably because of that new dispatch system that will, soon go into...

If it has been mentioned here in the Open Forum before, I missed it. Big Rig, the movie. Looks like it would be fun to watch.

Back when we drove fleet owner trucks, they were mostly Freightliners. Once in a Freightliner shop, the mechanic lost the key to the truck. The truck was locked up in the lot. After looking for the key for a half hour, he finally found it in his pocket. I asked him what would have happened if...