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The burger-flipping comparison is popular but note that some of the drivers who are willing to run for less than minimum wage do not have what it takes to hold down a minumum wage job. To be a successful burger flipper, you need to bathe, show up for work on time, follow instructions and play...

$0.80 per mile "expedited" freight is showing up not just on load boards where "off-brand" trucks bid at that level. It is coming across Qualcomm screens too. Diane and I remember a time when an incoming load offer on the Qualcomm unit in a FedEx Custom Critical truck (a beep in those days)...

Thanks for the update, Sparky.:)

I don't know the answer to your insurance question. Regarding the damage, I suggest that you put every electrical circuit you can think of to the test, by itself and in conjunction with other circuits. Turn everything on and off, load every circuit up as much as you can and note the results...

See: Experience, shmecksperience

Diane and I were with FedEx Custom Critical for eight years ending in June, 2011. Not once in those eight years were we put out of service for declining a load offer. However, yours is not the first report we have heard of this dispatch practice up in recent months. If it is not supposed to be...

Enjoy the ride! Jones did an especially clever job of hiding the reefer up top, I think. You did not mention about the reefer noise but I expect that the new model is quieter than the old, correct? Sleeper size?

From Fox News: "U.S. embassy officials in Mexico say the Mexican government is charging the trucker arrested last week with 268,000 bullets in Ciudad Juarez with smuggling military ammunition. "An embassy statement Thursday says 27-year-old Jabin Bogan of Dallas is confined to the Villa...

In this post, kwexpress mentioned Foley Carrier Services as a company used to help him run his own-authority expedite business. So as not to take that thread off topic, I'll start a new one and ask here. Are there other similar companies that expediters have found helpful in that regard? (I'm...

All of the above.

Drivers for the Top 50 carriers have much in common. What is the point you wish to make?

Have you called the Turnpike Authority? Could your safety department not do the same? The topic is discussed in the Turnpike regulations (§ 19:9-1.15 Transportation of hazardous materials). I will leave it to your carrier's HAZMAT geeks to interpret them regarding your specific case.

How much freight is booked and priced via the internet compared to ten years ago? What new players are on the scene that would not be here if not for the internet? How does the transportation transparency that the internet makes possible and continues to increase affect an individual...

The top 50 carriers are reporting healthy earnings but driver pay lags. See: Journal of Commerce article Excerpt: "Here’s the kicker. That average trucker pay is lower than the overall average U.S. wage, and the gap between them is getting wider. Since 2001, average driver pay has increased...

Diane and I are straight truck drivers in both senses of the word. Our truck specs are not your truck specs but reading though them will give you food for thought as you spec your truck.

Your signature indicates you are with FedEx Custom Critical. You are not referring to fines and check holds there are you? What you describe above about fines and check holds is not how I remember it when Diane and I were there. It was the case that you did not get paid if your paperwork was...

From the El Paso Times: Mexican federal prosecutors will press charges against the U.S. trucker who may have accidentally crossed into Juárez with 268,000 rounds of ammunition last week, a source familiar with the investigation said on Monday. Full story

TA East, Ontario, California. Expediters who are still here tomorrow (Tuesday) are going in for breakfast at 9:00 a.m.

My fear is that they are learning. Turnover in trucking has been high since Diane and I entered the business. It seems to be a cost the companies are willing to pay because the benefits of taking money off trucks produce a net gain.

Carrier info and truck type.