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You are nowhere near in as much trouble as the guy I saw in a hardware store. He was buying a weed whip for his wife's birthday gift and telling people in line at the checkout counter how good it was and how much she would enjoy it.

While it is true that many of the expediters that leave the business do so because they did not have good business sense or game plan, I am not sure it is true that there is more driver turnover than in O/O T/T driving. From talking to the recruiting departments at various expedite carriers and...

The current issue of Expedite NOW includes an article about uShip. Available in print now, it will appear online in the future. I had not paid much attention to uShip before reading the piece. After reading it, I explored the uShip.com web site and ended up spending a couple hours there, just...

Now I know what to get you for Christmas, gota go --a trucker jacket with Airtabs sewen onto the sleeves. and blue jeans with Airtabs on the legs. ;)

Not in this case. There were no on-ramps on this stretch of road.

I thought that might come up after I posted. I failed to mention that I did not turn my head to aim the small digital camera. I just pointed it in the general direction of the rear window and fired off a bunch of shots, some of which captured the scene. And yes, you are right. It would be really...

Driving a four-wheeler the other day, I was on a divided highway that closed one lane for road construction. As traffic slowed, a Mac dump truck came up on my bumper and hovered just inches away. Traffic sped up, I pulled away, he caught up and hovered again. The cycle repeated as we went...

Drivers paying occupational accident insurance premiums was common in the fleet owner relationships we had.

Yes, straight trucks are sometimes offered relocation pay, but I do not think it happens as often as with E and ER units. The last time relocation pay was offered to us the rate was $0.70 per mile to move from Denver to Los Angeles. Normally, we would decline such an offer and wait for freight...

We have a friend who retired from trucking after doing it all his adult life. After two years, he could stand retirement no more. He bought a rig and went back on the road. We are preparing for retirement because we know our health will not last forever, but if you love the life and work, why...

My answers (in red)are from our three years of running in fleet-owner trucks. We are owner-operators now. 1. Can the owners that are advertising 60/40 split with 100% FSC to the drivers be taken seriously? Drivers are you receiving the FSC? Yes, and yes. 2. Are you receiving any portion of...

Diane and I ask for more money under the new system the same way we did under the old. If a load offer is priced at an unprofitable level, we decline the load. Then we send a free-form message with the run number saying, "Will accept run #xxxxxxxx if pay is changed to $x,xxx.xx." The price is...

That is good advice, MCBuggyCo. We just got our hands on a new Garmin 750 this weekend. While we got it to work early on by pushing a few buttons and taking it on a drive, it will take some time to fully learn and master it. That POI link is appreciated. Thank you.

I do not disagree. Kindly note that I said WE (Diane and I) would consider it a sign of weakness if WE found ourselves frequently booking outside freight. I also said different strokes for different folks. We are in this business first for the money and second for a number of lifestyle goals...

No, I am not wrong. I said PERHAPS you misunderstood, not that you DID misunderstand. The list of approved carriers changes. PERHAPS that is the reason we both got right answers from carriers. You are calling from outside, I am calling from inside. PERHAPS that explains different information...

Perhaps you misunderstood what you were told. I specifically asked, by name, if a competing carrier was on FedEx Custom Critical's Home Run program approved carrier list. The competing carrier was indeed on the list. To make sure, I asked two different people, twice, on two different phone...

Earlier in this thread I said, "The federal government can take certain actions that have certain effects, and will often do so for political reasons. But that affects the larger forces no more than putting up a dike affects the water. "You might be able to change the water's path for a...

True, but the cats don't like any of them.

Yesterday, Diane and I became some of "THOSE PEOPLE" when we got home under our carrier's Home Run program (see post). But we did not sell out or in any way drive freight prices down. The country has millions of shippers that have an item or two to ship and are unwilling to pay truckload rates...

While everything I wrote in post #4 in this thread remains true, we are home now and thought we would try our carrier's Home Run program to get here. It worked. Diane left it to me to find the freight and I did not work hard at it. The path of least resistance was GetLoaded.com. I opened an...