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CMC course? Certified Master Contractor, right? Readers may be interested to know more.

The January, 2008 issue of Overdrive cover story is Breaking loose. It discusses the characteristics of debt-free owner-operators. It is a worthy read for expediters in all financial situations. Some people believe they will never be out of debt and thus never try to be. They think more about...

Great story. All I can say is go ahead and try it. Let us know how things turn out. Better your tuck than mine. If a stranger told me about the ability to half my fuel costs, I would be all over him for details and proof of what he was saying. I would not come here to ask, I'd ask him. Once it...

Neither would I.

People who read a year's worth of Open Forum posts know better too, if they take what they read to heart.

Word from vendors I have talked to or heard about from vendors that know them indicate it is slow. Comments like "Each sale comes hard these days." or "(sleeper manufacturer name) has cut back to a four day work week." or "(dealer name) has built zero custom expedite trucks this year" are...

Well, I have stories to tell too, and more on point than one about a missle silo. I have asked for dispatch favoritism and have NOT received it. Our early requests were made when we were new in the business, before we fully understood the corporate norms and issues involved. As fleet owners...

My heart sank as I read your story, but it is a very important story for truck owner wannabes to read. Thank you for sharing it. You did a good thing today. By the way, power of attorney documents can often be revoked. Have you checked to see if you can revoke yours?

I would think that booking your own freight would carry favoritism to the extreme. First, if booking your own freight is the solution, why bother affiliating with a carrier at all? Second, if you are in the business of booking your own freight (own-authority), your very survival depends on...

Wow! Embarrassed here. It has been years since I used code 61. I forgot it even existed. Thanks for the reminder.

I have a better story than that. Two trucks, one of them ours, travel together under load to the same location. The other truck gets off the load at midnight and remains in service. We get off the load the next morning and also remain in service. Since we were both waiting for freight, we met...

This morning, we read this story in The Herald Mail (Hagerstown, MD newspaper). It made me wonder, is Bobbie Myers on to something? Excerpt: "Going one step further was junior Bobbie Myers' project, Water 4 Fuel, which can double fuel mileage in a vehicle using water to supplement gasoline or...

We are wary of leaving a fuel card or CDL in the care of any truck stop employee. Most of the truck stops we use have card readers at the pumps so the request is not often made. To answer your question, if you were asked to turn over your card or CDL, you might first ask the counter person for...

Turtle's etymology illustrates how a word, in this case the word "virutal", has been used in different ways, by different people, in different times. When I said, "Dispatch favoritism at FedEx Custom Critical is so rare that it is virtually non-existent." I used the word in the way Turtle...

Terry can add one more situation to his list: You think your reefer truck is flagged for reefer service when it is not. The result is no reefer loads offered to you (same for liftgate or certain driver credentials). We once met a contractor that complained he had no reefer freight in a month...

I like to think this forum is open to people of all faiths and belief systems. There are those who would suggest God was with you in an accident. Others would suggest God was punishing you in an accident. Still others would suggest there is no God, or that that God exists but is on vacation...

I think the states you mention are doable for most expedite companies. I am curious, though. Is there a particular reason why east and southeast states are important to you? What are you hoping to accomplish by focusing on those states?

Bummer about the wreck. Cudos for your honesty in telling the story. And thank goodness for those cable barriers that kept you and perhaps others from a situation that may have been tragic. Where such barriers are used, the decline in crossover accidents and fatalities is remarkable. I have...

Maybe the Derby was UPS's way of rolling out the new expedite company that has been so often rumored. Think of it, horse-drawn vehicles powered by hay burning race horses. No diesel fuel required.

I don't have a lot of years to compare so my answer may not be as good as most. But for the 4.5 years we have been on the road, we have found expediters to be a friendly bunch. I cannot think of a time at a truck stop or on the road where an expediter cut us off, yelled at us for being in the...