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A lot expediters happily gave up the toilet because it meant getting rid of the boss too.

Your source?

A straight truck with two drive axles in California is required to chain up both drive axles (diagram) when chains are required. Washington only requires that one drive axle be chained. So if you have two drive axles and are carrying chains to be legal in California, you are automatically legal...

We will be in service, available and hopefully under load. We will also be giving thanks for the life and work we so enjoy.

A growing number of expediters with a variety of carriers are reporting slower freight. How long it will be until freight recovers and how strong the recovery will be is anyone's guess. So if you choose to enter the business now, there is no question about it, you will be doing so at a slow...

Gary, Your story is informative and accurate as far as I know but you did not address the issue I raised; that of accurately comparing revenue between one opportunity and another. Speaking from my own experience with the same carrier, if you are given the opportunity to do so but choose not...

And this relates to expediting how?

You might want to reconsider your claim. It is simply false that TripPak "paperwork always gets lost." Diane and I have run well over 500 loads and used TripPak to send in the paperwork on every one. Not once has a TripPak envelope been lost. We can count on one hand the times a log book sheet...

Diane and I are among them, but not for lack of trying to "buy American" as some call it. At one point in our lives, Diane drove a Toyota and I drove a Honda. Feeling an urge to do the patriotic thing and needing to replace the Toyota, we bought a Ford. In the first year, the Ford broke down...

I don't want to minimize or soft peddle the negative effects of a GM bankrupcy. A recent CNN article describes them well. Even if the numbers source is dismissed as bias and the numbers are reduced by half, a GM bankrupcy would have a negative economic impact. But the problem is, bailout or...

If it's clean, it's my favorite.

18 axles! With three passes through a New York toll booth that rig could eliminate that state's deficit.

GM's failure would be a sad story to be sure. The 1 in 10 statistic that has been batted around is a bit of a stretch. As I read it, 1 in 10 jobs are tied to the automotive industry, not to GM. It is ironic for GM to be tossing the number out. A lot of those 1 in 10 jobs are in brand new plants...

Would it be a nightmare or just reaping what they sewed? If GM fails, there will not be a shortage of cars. It will take some time but the economically viable components of the company will find new life somewhere else. The non-viable components will disappear. A major bailout will not change...

Nope. Still with FedEx Custom Critical. My comment about competent dispatchers available 24 hours a day was not a complaint. It was a suggested desirable feature. While there is the occasional hiccup, we feel we have competent dispatchers 24 hours a day. It is rare that a dispatch issue rises...

Yes. And you can also express your jealousy for not having them.

I actually feel a sense of relief reading your post. It has nothing to do with Panther. It has to do with knowing that Diane and I are not the only ones experiencing slow freight. It is easier to sit when you know others are sitting too. While we of course would prefer to be busy over slow...

Thinking about this a bit further and returning to the original topic, it occurred to me that we are talking about the differences new eyes can see. Leo is new to the FedEx Custom Critical system. Diane and I have grown accustomed to it. It is analogous to us using a rotary phone while Leo is...

It seems that the newer the truck, the less work you can do on it yourself. Sensor errors, program glitches and proprietary computer systems force dealer visits just to keep the truck running. In the old days, if the brake light came on, you would do the logical thing and look at the brakes...

I would add one thing to TeamCaffee's excellent post. Your carrier should make competent dispatchers available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.