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RE: Number of Vans out there for FedEx%2C TriState Fleet size varies day to day, Panther may have the largest one today but in a month, someone else may. The feds, someone correct me if I am wrong, I think require updates monthly not daily for large fleets.

Dave, I see what you are driving at but I don't know if that will be a lasting thing, UPS may go after enlarging their fleet using their existing model of employees instead of contractors, which they seem to only use contractors sparingly within their organization. This would give them even...

Actually, what i'd like to see, is someone.... anyone, break the choke hold that NLMI has on the automotive freight industry. I personally hold that group responsible for alot of the problems we have in this industry. I think if UPS would hard sell to the new ford/visteon splinter group...what...

Well Dave, I agree with you but remember that big business looks at things differently and like another big business, Pfizer, it took them a few times around the block at a great loss to get one of their subsidiaries straighten up enough to bring it into the fold. So let's see....

>Trivia question: In the movie 2001 Space Odyssey the >computer was named HAL. How did the writers come up with >that acronym? Sorry I am bored this morning and don't want to do house (sleeper) work, so here goes...... Heurisically (sp?) programmed ALgorithmic computer But when I worked...

You two are funny. 'but Phil' ;-) Phil I understand where your coming from but the thing is unless you are on the shipping end of things, the single phone call thing does not seem to exist within FedEx. We get a lot of work that is originates throughout the company, not a single place - this is...

No argon.

I have been sitting here on the Mexican border for a few days, relaxing and taking some time off to finish up a few articles and I am so surprised at the ‘rich’ Mexicans who come here to shop. When I went to the Wal-Mart a couple miles north of the border, I was so surprised at the amount...

For most, they may not get this, the Austrians brought back German romantic classic, Der Freischütz or The Marksman has been revived at one of the festivals but with a twist. The story line is a simple a tale pitting good against evil in the dark woods somewhere in Germany. The hero is in...

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RE: CONFUSED!! Yea, x06col I guess ....thinking about it... you may be completely right about that point.

Turtle!

Those signs have been there longer than I have been running. I remember seeing them in 2004.

>shouldnt be too bad for the rest of us, since ups still >outsources most of the "critical" shipments on panther >trucks anyway. Ah....and FedEx get a share of this too.

CONFUSED!! OK I am with mountainman on this one, did you pull into a cat scale to get a weight on it or did you just assume that it was alright? Not trying to be an a** about things but with a 14K axle and a margin of 1800lbs with fuel on board, putting things forward of the rear axles may...

What I find really interesting is this; "For the first time in the industry, customers have a single point of contact regardless of whether they're shipping a small package or a 1,000 pound machine part - air or ground, domestic or international. Customers now have a single call center, one...

Ok?! I thought that there was a safety report done in the 80's about the effectiveness between the three barrier systems and cables were lower on the list than concrete barriers? I know for a fact that concrete will prevent most cars from going through it but an SUV, or a truck is a different...

Steve, I had a lot of problems with the partridges in the box, so they made a good meal one day. I had seagulls in there but they made a mess of everything with the fish they hide in the box and someone suggested pigeons which is not an option. At one time I had the pear tree in the box but I...

HERE WE GO AGAIN!! FW, I agree with some of what you are saying but truthfully we are dealing with people who have no clue who enter into this industry at large and become sheep, and I am not talking about the ones here on EO but in the industry in general. They sometimes need a group to help...

T-hawk, The Duke lacrosse players are in a different situation, they were really not affected by the public opinion at all, they can rebuild their lives easier with the public but rather they were affected by the school and legal system screwing up their lives. I feel that in that case the...