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Diane and I own our own truck and have never been associated with Expediter Services. We have talked with a number of ES drivers over the years and find it remarkable that almost none of them have anything bad to say about ES. There was an exception. The man complained that he could not get...

Regular readers know that Diane and I moved our truck lease from FedEx Custom Critical to Landstar Express America in late June. No longer needing them and not feeling it appropriate to wear them any more, our FedEx shirts went into the dumpster. We would have happily given them to the first...

Re: Fed x expedite going down ? I get your meaning, I think, but for new people reading the forum, let me add this. Expedite carriers are constantly balancing their fleet sizes and customer needs. Carriers want to have enough trucks available at all times to respond when customers call. If...

We flew Diane home and back to the truck several times to see her dentists while she was having braces work done. I don't remember getting any grief for it. A mostly off-topic story if I may: We were once on a cross-country load that took us close to the dentist office and Diane was due to...

When Diane got her braces done and we were seeing the dentists a lot, and they knew about our life on the road, they said to call them if we ever needed to see a dentist on the road and they would hook us up. We never did so but they seemed to have some sort of network for referrals. You might...

Re: Expedite Services leaving E-1 I think it would be difficult for any large fleet owner to put a large number of trucks on at Landstar Express America if the fleet owner's business model includes getting special deals. Landstar's dispatch system is decentralized. Over 100 LEAM agents...

Re: Expedite Services leaving E-1 That is interesting news. Thank you, DragonLadyTN for sharing it. Have you any comments to share as well? Lots of questions come to mind but I have no info beyond your report.

Of course I would jump in the van and throw it into reverse. This is the 21st Century. Save the tree!

I just checked and the blog is up. I'm behind a few days in blog entries but the page itself works.

A more recent (Feb, 2011) article about this is in Expedite NOW magazine, entitled "CSA Made Easy: You are a Sitting Duck". The link to the FMCSA SMS Results page is cited in the article but when I tried it a few minutes ago I got a server error. This link will also take you to the page. But...

The 600,000 mile number is an attention getter. In your five years of running super singles, have you actually achieved that? Regarding fuel economy claims, if anyone can quantify them, you can. There are no industry studies out there that talk about super singles and straight trucks that I...

On June 21, 2010, you wrote in this thread about a bubble that developed on your wide base single and the difficulties you had in replacing the tire. Was that not a problem? I know you praised the manufacturer for making things right, but the tire did fail, did it not? Super singles have a...

Not to put too fine of a point on this but let me add that our approach -- no alcohol in our truck or bodies ever when we are out on the road -- goes beyond being available or unavailable for dispatch. The truck is our home and the nation our back yard. Be it for dispatch or personal reasons, we...

Hendrix. Also known as a white arrow. Steering Wheel Holder (Wheel Holder): An expediter who is able to drive a truck but fails to grasp important business and safety concepts.

In another thread, The Enemy used the term Butterfly to describe an expediter who moves from company to company without doing homework. That got me to thinking about other terms. Can you add any more? Butterfly: An expediter who moves from company to company without doing homework. Also known...

You are not wrong but the reason Diane and I carry it a step further to say no alchohol in our truck ever (including any in our bodies) when we are out on the road, is that circumstances can quickly change in this business. Say you are at a ball game on a Saturday when you are dispatched to...

If you are tempted to quibble about the law and weasel-word definitions to make it OK to drink when you are out on the road, you are flirting with termination or worse. Forget about the letter of the law and focus on the spirit of the law. It is never good to combine alcohol and vehicles, and...

I knew you would rise to say that and I ask readers to note that davekc left out the part where I said "There was a time when our reefer was a gold mine at FedEx but those days went away, so we did too." The changes at FDCC that prompted us to leave are recent. When TVAL freight and other runs...

One piece of advice is to hang onto your reefer data logger. You know, the one FedEx made you take out of your truck to make room for the FedEx-owned device they required you to put in. It may come in handy. Twice in two days, two different agents called me to ask if we had a data logger in the...

Having been with Landstar for less than two months, it is hardly my place to say welcome aboard, but I'll do so anyway. Welcome aboard! It took Diane and I a few weeks to get into the groove but we have no regrets about making the move.