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>Tallcal wrote; >Too many trucks,not enough HIGH PAYING freight.Plenty of SE >offers($1.07 to $1.25) where before there were NONE.Only >hauled W/G mostly Refer freight. >I'm sure you will be fine Phil(you learn about truck >ownership when that beautiful rig becomes 3 to 4 years old...

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Thanks for your good wishes. Back at you. We have not made ourselves strangers when we have been in your neighborhood. The freight just has not given us time to stop in. It' our turn to buy lunch. We'll be there one day.

>Phil,at every turn in the road for the last 8 years, >rumor,prediction and highly anticipated revnue generating >schemes have been constantly anticipated by FEDEX CC and >communicated down to the owners.Truckload Brokerage is >nothing more then more of the same."It's going to turn...

I would guess (and it is a guess) that this is one of many cost cutting moves we will see made in coming months. IdleAire is not doing as well as its early investors hoped (not a guess). I don't think the company will disappear overnight. I do think the company will be sold at a discount and...

>My friend called me from Buffalo and we are going to pray up >a load. > >I would appreciate your prayers. Send me am IM and I'll pray >for you too! For prayers of that nature, would it not be wiser to to pray for a winning lottery ticket? If you can gin up one of those, please add me to...

cpboy_1, when you ask about stretching a truck or not, are you talking about a used tractor or new? If new, I would not even think of stretching it as your desired length and wheelbase can be ordered from the factory.

Gloves, maybe two pair; one pair for fueling that can get fuel on them, and one pair to wear when you are handling freight, opening dirty truck doors, etc. I have tried different kinds and keep coming back to the cheap Wal-Mart variety. The expensive gloves seem to last no longer.

If you are in conditions where fear of losing control of the truck rises, STOP! Get safely off the road as soon as you can and wait for conditions to improve; which may happen the next time the snow plow passes through. If driving at slow speeds and using tire chains will help, so be it. But...

In another topic, FedEx Truckload Brokerage was brought up and discussed. See: http://www.expeditersonline.com/dcforum/DCForumID1/6274.html Wanting to know more, I went to my Contract Coordinator to ask. I learned the following: 1. FedEx Truckload Brokerage was originated as a way to bring...

While the majority of first-time expediters enter the business as owner-operators driving their own trucks, the advantages of driving for a fleet owner first are great (provided, of course, that you find a fleet owner that is competent and fair; some are not). It is very rare to find a...

Practice in fair weather putting your tire chains on. Learning how to do it in a blizzard is the less attractive option. Avail yourself to impromptu skid pad training if you get the chance. If you find yourself in an area where snow is on the ground and IT IS SAFE TO DO SO (open area, nothing...

>Phil, Even after typing all of that....as I said before, >luck still has a place in this business. No amount of >planning, spreadsheets, past history or looking into the >crystal ball will tell a person that a load is going to >cancel. That's luck..good or bad Not believing in luck, I...

>One question. How does your skill help the freight pop up >for you? Couldn't some one with a weeks experience and no >skill get a load out before you? I have no power over the freight and no skill that makes it pop up. We do not produce freight. Shippers do. If the freight does not come to...

I do not belive in luck, and suggest that expediters that do degrade the quality of their business decision making, and thereby reduce their opportunities for success. Long post follows. Skip if you don't like long posts. At the moment, we are sitting in Spokane, WA waiting for freight. We...

Driving a fleet owner's truck as a way to get started in expediting is also an option to consider.

>There seems to be a shift in their strategy that is >bothersome to say the least because the idea of ‘exclusive >use’ has not been reinforced with this or the other >program they instituted last year. The shifting makes me >nervous because I can see more problems in all around...

>In this case, the Fed has heavy financial obligations to >move their OWN equipment first. It only makes good business >sense. >They have hundreds of company trucks that they will >prioritize over anything else. They readily admit that, so >it isn't like it is something new. It is more of a...

I was too hasty in my choice of words. I should not have said "shamed." Humbled By Newbies would be the better choice. I am proud of the good numbers we are able to put up most months and I like to think that is due, at least in part, to the considered ways we run our business. Then, when a...

>Once again Phil,with all due respect,the last time I called >into CC to get a rate for an expedited shipment,the call >went to Brokerage.I was asked a number of questions >regarding the nature of the shipment and the time versus >expense of looking at the various options. >In the past,I...