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We sometimes receive offers from agents who already have the loads. Other times agents call wanting to know our price. Time periods vary. Some want to know instantly and will bid even while we are on the phone with them. Others take longer depending on the customer they are dealing with. We...

Such as? Specifics? Maybe lifetime bans have been talked about and I did not pay attention because it is unlikely that I'd ever do anything that would earn a lifetime ban. But I've never heard of lifetime bans for anything. Examples?

Seventeen tornadoes have been counted by the National Weather Service by 4:40 p.m. Central Time. No injuries in the sparsely populated areas where the tornadoes developed. The storm will continue to produce tornadoes through the night, forecasters say.

If you are in or traveling through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska or Iowa now (16:00 Central Time, Saturday), or know someone who is, be sure to check the weather. This is a very dangerous storm that can produce long tracking tornadoes, similar to the storm of March 2 that killed 12 people...

"Really well" is a relative term. For those of us not in the van game, what does "really well" mean? You shocked me with your 10,000 miles a month figure. Diane and I are a team in a straight truck and that is not far from what we average in a year. A solo driver running 10,000 miles a month...

The fact is that many carriers view contractors not as human beings who are running a business but as commodities to be managed for profit. Take some time to read the FedEx Custom Critical forum. You will see numerous posts there written by people who served that company well for a decade or...

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It does not matter how honorable your motives are or how factual the post; some readers will see it as whining, crapping where you eat, biting the hand that feeds you, being disloyal to your carrier, etc. Others will see your post for what it is; a well-intentioned statement supported by the...

Seen parked in in a store lot in Las Vegas.

Yes! Absolutely! I have visions of literary agents lining up to beg for the opportunity to represent me. I see people by the thousands camping overnight at Barnes and Noble to be among the first to add my book to their libraries. There will be paid book tours that take Diane and me across the...

This is true but is there such a thing as unlimited experience? What human being alive, in any field of endeavor, is not limited by his or her own experience, however extensive it may be? Teachers teach history without experiencing most of it. Doctors treat patients without suffering the...

Requesting criticism here in the Open Forum is like walking into a house that is fully engulfed in flames and making a request to get burned. It's going to happen whether the request is made or not. Turtle's comment in this thread about a recently published book about expediting got me...

What's the problem? They call it hot freight, don't they? ;)

I would not minimize the effects of fire extinguishers. I have successfully used them to put out a car fire when I worked at a gas station, a car fire in a parking lot, and a grill fire on our sun deck back when we owned a house in Minnesota. The gas station fire extinguishers were bigger than...

I'm glad to hear the driver is safe and got out with his wallet and cell phone. I trust that your insurance will minimize the financial impact of the loss, but also know that loss of the truck itself means loss of the revenue it could produce for the driver and you. This is a reminder to all...

This thread is now hosting a nice collection of links to a variety of expediter blogs. We have fleet owners, fleet drivers, owner-operators, folks with various carriers, folks writing from different perspectives. This is nice. Are there others?

Your blog has been added to the list, AJ. Thank you for letting us know about it. Are there others?

I edited the original post to add this blog: Walking down the Emmaus Road by Gary Atkinson (garyatk on the Open Forum). Are there others?

Well said.

This is not the first time a sarcastic barb has provided a delightful point of entry with which to make a non-sarcastic point. Thank you.