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It must have been a similar truck. We are in a hotel in Rockford, IL and have been for a few days while we attend Landstar orientation.

It is also true that a FedEx Custom Critical competitor gained that team, and they did it without initiating a single recruiting contact with us. Motivated by changes at FDCC and frustrated by not being heard, we initated contact with the gaining carrier. The fantastic customer service we used...

That's a nice thought, and thank you for sharing it, but we do not know if that is true either. No explainations were given and we expect none ever will be. That's just the way FedEx Custom Critical is. Readers, please note that the administrative details of Diane's and my departure from FedEx...

You are making jokes, but now having the numbers from your very own fleet owner -- also a friend of mine who I speak to from time to time (we once drove one of his brother's trucks) -- you see the rate and price per mile declines we are talking about. Financially, the numbers you cite are the...

Don't read too much into the two letters or the fact that Diane and I sent none. Both letters came without explaination, from the same person (not two people with one more senior) on the same date. What does it mean? As a practical matter, nothing. I regard it as an insignificant moment of...

You heard wrong.

I'm not sure that I correctly understand your meaning Linda, but Joe was not wrong when he said that speed limiters were required for WG TVAL trucks. That news did not come from an irritated contractor speaking up on EO. It came by a letter sent by the company to our house. I remember it...

I don't know about the ones, I only know about this one, namely me. Our truck has been fully paid for since 2008 and we have enough money in the bank to sit for six months or more if we had to. My complaints were not inspired by a need to make a truck payment. Diane and I could match the gross...

Diane and I did not leave the company "P/Oed." We left for financial reasons and emotional. We felt sad, not mad, when we left; sad as in greiving the decline of a good company (as seen from our perspective as contractors). Those feelings set in about a year ago as the effects of numerous...

You are correct. D it is. Carriers vary in how they classify trucks. It matters not what they call us. It matters more what we can haul and that the agents come to know it.

We don't know if it was a mistake, intentional or something else. As I said, neither letter included an explanation. Nor does it matter. Diane and I have moved on. I only mention the second letter here for those who might try to spin the first letter into something more than it is. The first...

Reefer freight for straight trucks at Landstar? Who woulda thunk! Actually, Diane and I are finding out that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about Landstar may be generally true, but when you enter the company with a clear purpose and drill deeper down into the system, there is a...

With the passage of a few days and the receipt of two letters, the question is now meaningless. Diane and I do not know what to make of it but we received two letters in the mail today, both dated on the same date. The first was the termination letter that we expected. The second came from the...

It could mean anything. It could be driver health issues that prematurely forced an owner-operator team out of their truck. It could be that moving company got a contract that required a straight truck reefer and a sweet deal was offered to recruit that truck. It could be that the team failed...

Diane and I are aware of the difference between FedEx Custom Critical's centralized dispatch system and Landstar's decentralized, agent-driven dispatch system. Our move to Landstar takes us into an entirely different game; one that we are well equipped to play. Marketing and professional...

As in business, so too in life. It is human nature to resist change, even when you know you are in a bad situation. Diane and I made it look easy to change carriers but it is not. You get to know people and a system. You identify with the logo on your truck. You become comfortable with the...

Well there you go! Readers don't have to ask me how things are for a new team at LEA, you can watch the process unfold right here. Have a truck with a lift gate, join LEA, let people know that you did, and wait your turn for orientation. While you do, the universe will shift to help you...

Yes, there is a liftgate on our truck.

I would not be too quick to arrive at that conclusion. First, they will not tell you why a contract is being terminated even if you ask. Second, I was not alone in stating my issues with FedEx Custom Critical. If you read the posts going back several months in the FedEx Custom Critical forum...

That is exactly right and the company has been badly burned before by contractors who joined a new company with the fierce intention to hurt their former company. Diane and I have seen it happen several times where Fedex Custom Critical contractors leave, fuming with anger and motivated by...