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Husband Wife Team I am a large fleet owner that consistantly is looking for husband wife teams. We run only 22 or 24 ft trucks with 72 in or bigger sleepers. We provide full training on the cdl plus the intangibles on running your own business. If you are still looking email me...

I appreciate your comments. I am a fleet owner and hire new drivers to the industry. I spend a lot of time trying to teach my drivers a lot of the same things you have written about. In fact I am in the process of TRYING to actually build a text book/drivers manual to help in this cause. I...

I am a fleet owner with multiple trucks on with fedex. They cancelled the lease on one of my trucks that has been on only since March (this would go against RichM's idea about new blood). This truck had the highest availability percentage of all my trucks over (90%)and it had an equally high...

I cant say I am aware of any time one of my teams was leap frogged by an E truck. I am not saying I know for sure it does not happen I am merely saying. I monitor my trucks very closely and I cant remember when I missed a load I thought I should get and I lost it to an E truck. I do know that...

Rich M. Urgentfreight.com I am disappointed to read you might be leaving FedExCC. I enjoy reading your posts (you are always very honest) and I can tell you (although my experience is not near your 14 yrs) that no where is going to be any better. I have trucks on with Panther, TriState, FedEx...

I have teams on with FedEx and others and I have seen the freight pick up SLIGHTLY in November. Mine are still siting about half the weekends and maybe at least 24 hours during the week. Fuel is very high and other owners are probably trying to steal your team (and mine) as I write this post...

Bottom Line I do not claim to know the history of Rockefeller or who Gates pissed off or on, while building stacks of money, or who Mr. Powell "sold his soul" to. Every individual has heard rags to riches stories. I believe they all did things through their lives to aquire wealth. The...

Reply To Mr. Gary Addis I appreciate someone who defends their beliefs. It is rare that I hear a democrate articulate why they support their party. They (especially Gore) will make general statements like they want: insurance for all americans...better schools...cleaner air...reduce drugs and...

With the high fuel what has been your strategy regarding keeping your drivers? Have you increased their percentage? Have you just given them the fuel surcharge when you get it? Nothing?

Well Put! I would like to be a fly on the wall in some of the meetings at FedEx, Panther, TriState. To see what each of their strategies will be to help the contractors deal with the fuel situation (the surcharge is not enough). Expedite is interesting because it is almost completely composed...

Wendy We have/are looking at getting our own authority. I disagree with you on buying and production being "down" my sense is that they are flat at worse and I do not think we have felt any negative effects from transplace.com deals or any others. I am wondering if the big LTL players are...

My experience prior to this year has been in Truckload. I understand there are ups and downs in the freight business. I am not necessarily complaining about the last 8 mos. I was just trying to see what others opinions were of this years run counts as apposed to previous years. I obviously...

I manage a fleet of D units leased onto the big 3. I have only been doing this since 1/1/2000. Since that time all the carriers have said "It is going to pick up" but other than a week here and there it has not seem busy at all to me. Is this standard for the first 8 months or has it been a...

LAST EDITED ON Aug-30-00 AT 11:20AM (EDT)[p]I manage a fleet of D units leased onto the big 3. I have only been doing this since 1/1/2000. Since that time all the carriers have said "It is going to pick up" but other than a week here and there it has not seem busy at all to me. Is this...

I have trucks with the big 3 and I would agree with Bret about FedEx. I have run single drivers in diferent power units at different times of the year. It is nearly impossible for them to be consistently profitable. The more flexible the carrier in terms of log book restrictions and the fewer...

Bret is right there is a huge difference between truckload and expedite. I am a fleet owner out of Indy and ran a small truckload carrier before getting into this. If you drive as a company driver there are some advantages but in general you will make less $$ than if you take the risk of...

I am a fleet owner with D trucks at Tri-State, Panther and FedEx. I would say if you don't refuse a bunch of loads and don't need to going home all the time you should be fine. All the carriers are trying to accomplish the same things. They just go about it slightly differently. Good luck.