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RE: Cheer up! A recession is coming and you are go Now there's one for the books! ATeam, a doom and gloomer. :7 Perhaps some more detail will help. Feldstein's statement below is not a prediction about what might happen. He is talking about things that have already happened and are happening...

Cheer up! A recession is coming and you are going to fail, that is if you are not prepared. Why do I say cheer up? Because you can tell today if you are not prepared, and you can get out now and save yourself a lot of pain when the recession hits. You can also try to get your financial house...

>Don't mess with the local place. Call the corporate office >Tuesday. They will take care of it. I had a major problem >after stopping at one of their locations. The corp. office >took care of all the expenses. Good luck. We had a problem at a Speedco too that took our truck off the road...

Which Speedco store was it that did not over-tighten your drain plug? OOPS...Never mind. Re-read the post to find out.

RE: If you turn down loads ,will your company fire In FedEx Custom Critical's Four Star award program, a load acceptance rate of 70% is one of the eligibilty criteria. In other words, if you turned down 30 out of a hundred loads, the people at FedEx would think your accpetance rate is pretty...

>that's a pretty sharp floor. what kind of wood is that? The reefer body manufacturer, Kidron, calls it "laminated hardwood." I don't know much more about it than that.

If we are at a loading dock, and push comes to shove, and there is no other way agreeable to the shipper, the shipper wins and nails go in the floor. We will fill in the nail holes later with wood putty or Key Polymer's Crack Filler. We carry 2x4s, a hammer and nails as required by FedEx Custom...

In a thread started by wombat52, reference to securing freight was made. He said he was hauling totes that shifted and contributed to an accident. It occured to me that a new thread on securing freight might be helpful to some readers. I'll start with hopes that others will jump in and share...

Firegears, I am growing increasingly uncomfortable with your glowing and blanket endorsements of my writings and posts. I fear that you are using my name to tweak the noses of my critics and incite them to react to you. We have enjoyed a period of relative calm in the Open Forum for a while. I...

RE: i will explain it one time more ok wombat52, Thank you for the clarification. May I ask for a bit more? I now understand that the truck went over on its side. You said the load shifted and that the load was secured. Obviously, both could not happen at the same time, so I presume that you...

In a fleet owner's truck, Diane and I were once involved in a minor accident where a big rig, making an illegal right turn from a left-turn-only lane, clipped the left rear corner of the truck we were in, and caused a couple thousand dollars damage to the door hinges and frame. A Werner driver...

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If you feel duty-bound to assist new forum members, that can best be done by providing specific links to the information they are asking about. Simply saying "read ATeam's posts" dooms the reader to hundreds of pages of information that do not relate to the questions the reader is asking. In...

Firegears, I would not mind if you toned down your recent "read ATeam's posts" emphasis. If someone is going to search a subject, it is best that he or she see all posts that address it.

Speaking as someone that has team-driven fleet owner trucks, I would be reluctant to seek a position with a fleet owner that does not have expediting experience. Drivers need support from their truck owners; sometimes at all hours of the night, sometimes at locations a thousand miles from you...

>Use the search function and gather the posts >by an author named ATeam. > >He's presented a train load of information >concerning getting started in expediting.. > >He has many "links" to other very informative information. FireGears, While I appreciate the confidence you show in my...

>I have to admit... writing that, I wasn't sure you'd take it >as it was intended, and I was right. No big deal... won't >happen again. Thank you.

>Once again, Phil can't take a joke. :P > >Take some advice. Watch Monty Python, Benny Hill, and >Sanford and Son. Let me know if you find your sense of >humor. ;) I would expect that a moderator would be wise enough to understand that the written word is not always taken as it is intended...

>A boat load? Did Phil get a yacht now? > >Have to admit... at first I thought you said butt load. :7 Once again, from a moderator, a totally unecessary statement that disrespectrs and ridicules an Open Forum member. It seems that member complaints about this kind of moderator behavior...

Welcome to the fray. You picked a good fleet owner in Tim Hopkins, one of the best in my view. You will find a lot of expediters are happy to help out on the road. Don't be afraid to ask. Nice to hear about the assist from Panther. We are at the same time, competitors and colleagues.