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Consider the difference in a man in a >8X8 jail cell with a few creature comforts to a man in a 4X8 >solitary confinement cell and see who loses his mind first. It's a heck-of-a business we are in, that analogy actually makes some sense.

Here are some additonal numbers to consider. I called my Volvo dealer this morning to get them. A new Volvo day cab costs about $99,000 now. A new Volvo 780 tractor (Volvo's biggest sleeper) costs about $123,000. Thus, the Volvo factory sleeper costs $24,000. If you spent $75,000 on a custom...

>CR revenue (gross to the truck, fuel surcharge factored out) >is higher than it was when driving DR trucks with factory >sleepers. > >WHY???????? I don't know for sure but the increased productivity we gain by having a large sleeper (see above) is a big part of it. We have less down time...

On second thought, MAYBE a large sleeper can pay for itself. If realized savings on food and hotels are $5,000 a year (realistic numbers reported by some teams), and if the additional sleeper cost is amortized over say 10 years, is also $5,000 (probably a high figure since we are talking not...

When assesing the benefits of large sleepers, quantifiable items include: 1. Reduced food costs of $500 to $1,200 a month (as reported in testimonials on the A.R.I. web site) 2. Reduced fuel costs because you do not have to go out of route to find showers and bathrooms (especially important to...

Best to you, Nightthrasher. I hope you keep us posted about your journey. Expedite Solutions is one of several ways to get into expediting. I know little about Expedite Solutions. It would be very interesting to hear from you what your experiences and observations are as you proceed.

Twice. Once we arrived at a pickup for a nice run from IL to NJ. The shipper thought she had booked two stops, not one, and surprised us saying, "what about that freight?" when we secured what we thought was all the freight and got ready to leave. The second stop was in Florida and the run was...

Spec a new, class 8, day cab truck and note the price. Call that price "A." Add a factory sleeper to it and note the price. Call that price "B." Subtract A from B to get the cost of the factory sleeper. Call the factory sleeper cost "C." Spec a large (100 inches or more), custom-built sleeper...

Thank you, LDB, Packmule and Riverrat2000. While we are happy at FedEx Custom Critical and have no reason to consider other carriers, Landstar Express America has always been our plan B company. It is nice to see that more than one carrier is doing high-end reefer freight and that we have...

Other A.R.I. testimonials: http://www.legacysleepers.com/testimonials.php

Looking at the LEAM web site, I see temperature-control freight services are also advertised. I have never seen a LEAM reefer truck on the road. Are there some? How much temp-control and/or TVAL freight does LEAM handle?

Just a question for LEAM BCOs from a curious outsider; how much freight booked through LEAM is exclusive use freight (entire truck dedicated to the load)? Am I getting it right that at least some of the freight at LEAM is comingled freight (multiple shippers and multiple stops on the same run)?

Cancer sucks. Our best to your wife and John O.

RE: how to make inputs A 300% turnover rate? Even to a non-Panther expediter like me, that number seems high. We often read about over-the-road trucking companies that have turnover rates over 100%. But 300%? I have a hard time believing that. Under 100% seems more likely, and perhaps...

I feel your pain, Brother.

We too are very pleased with our A.R.I. sleeper quality and the before-sale and after-sale support they provide. These are small things, but they speak volumes about how they think of their customer's needs. When you go to A.R.I. for service, they provide overnight parking places with free...

Does it not bother you even a little bit that your parking brake knob is upside down? That's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.

Leo, Greg's words were, "Until you have experience with either being a fleet owner or running a business with employees,...." You and he are correct in that I have never been a fleet owner. It was the "running a business with employees" that I reacted to. It remains the case that Greg does...

>Phil, >Until you have experience with either being a fleet owner or >running a business with employees, you haven't heard a lot. You limited experience is with you, Diane and your truck >(being a driver - I think you would be surprised at what is >asked and said. Like, duh! Maybe it's OK...

In the worst of times and the best of times, some expediters fail and others succeed (whatever success means to them). Bad times are less forgiving that good times but some people still succeed where others do not. I would not advise you away from the business for the sole reason that the...