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Just wondering if Spring Break affects our business.. I know many people go on vacations (or at least they used to in better days) during our 'March Break'.. and with less staffing it tends to make some businesses less productive.. Ontario's March Break is starting today through to March 22...

Howcome it appears we don't have members with Landstar? Are y'all choosing to be anonymous, are y'all too busy running to be posting on EO, or aren't they any? They're not even represented on the Carrier Forums. Just curious....

Probably should've posted this earlier in the week, but FYI, Monday is a statutory holiday in Ontario. (Family Day). Read: If you take a load into ON, you may be waiting until Tuesday to get out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/business/11auto.html?ref=business

I have created the coolest spreadsheet, at least in my mind :) I'm just refining it, but it's done from a Canadian perspective (ie the industry speaks in gallons and miles, but we buy fuel in litres and our trucks travel in kms; we have GST included in our fuel price, but it's actually not an...

I wanted to reply in another thread, but I can't, so I started a new one. It was in regard to tblount's comparison of 2 carriers, and revenue, expenses, and bottom line. I just wanted to point out that escrow shouldn't be factored in as an 'expense', because it is more like a 'savings account'...

I've been meaning to make a post about this for some time now. Wanted to bring it to anyone'ss attention, to be aware of wording. People can say things in certain ways to make you believe certain things, which aren't true, and yet in fact, they didn't actually tell a 'lie'. Not mentioning any...

Out of curiosity.. do any carriers charge more if their customer is a union shop? ie.. nope, can't unload you for an hour til my lunch is over. You know, that type of deal.

The rules are different between Canada and the USA, but.. regarding the 'cycles'.. Say you are only 'on duty', whether driving or not, for less than 10 hours per day for the past 7 days.. say you worked 5 hours on Days 1 thru 7, so your total for the 7 days was only 50 hours.. does the next...

I wanted to start a new thread about this subject becuz this isn't about any one carrier in particular. It's about the wording, interpretation, etc. of the fsc issue. Our carrier happens to be one that takes a percentage of the fsc, along with the same percentage of the paid miles. I was...

Scuse this if it has already been posted, but didn't see anything.. Here is a link to check out last year's results: June 35 is Roadcheck 2008 June 3-5 is Roadcheck 2008 By Laura Walter During June 3-5, approximately 10,000 trained, certified officers will blanket the roadways of North...

I had always understood that it was safer to be incorporated, becuz if you were in an accident and subsequently sued, they would sue the corporation, rather than you personally. I was reading however, that in the case of an owner operator, if you are in a horrible accident, and you were also...

I remember reading back in an older post one time, someone saying their carrier wanted them to sign a power of attorney, and being really confused about that. In investigating our options for getting our own operating authorities, I received a quote from a 'service' which looks after getting...

I was speaking to someone today who was telling me about an OO's payment arrangement with his driver, and I don't recall reading anything about this on EO, and wondered how this works with folks. Who pays for the fuel used in unauthorized deadheading, if the Owner is paying the fuel on a...

It seems for the past couple of weeks, postings have slimmed down somewhat.. I'm going to be an *ss and assume this means things are getting busier over there? I don't think the same seems to be true on this side of the line.. have spoken to a few companies this week who have been quite slow...

If you're sent to pick up at a certain location, certain time; You arrive early, let shipper know you're there, they're waiting on a part to arrive from someone else, so they can get the thing you're picking up, ready to go; They're late; other part has not yet arrived; It's Friday night; The...

Does anyone happen to know these numbers for themselves? For example, 'for me, insurance works out to ?% of gross revenue over the course of a year', or 'fuel works out to ?%' or.. whatever. Are there 'industry averages' for these costs in relation to revenue? Before we got into this, we were...

Forgive me for not being able to find this, I'm having trouble with the search mechanism on here due to the number of characters.. Can someone point me to where it lists the different classes of CDL's? Also, can someone tell me which USA CLD would be required for a C-Unit? Thanks

Ok, so we're relatively new. We don't know many of the ins and outs yet. So we come here to obtain valuable information and insight. Thank you for that. We learn that you're supposed to know what a load pays, before you accept it. We learn that, being a business, we're supposed to be able to...