Mats 2012 - Report from Nick
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cannedmeat27
Expert Expediter
It's not your phone mine says URL not found.
I would very much enjoy more MATS reports like this one and those in Caffee's blog (and Marcu's once she starts posting about the show). Diane and I are not attending MATS this year but love hearing about it from others who are there.
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moose
Veteran Expediter
It is a wet Tshirt contests .
I mist on the opening day, but gut in later on today.
made it just in time for the E-logs "listening" session .
& gut my 2 penny's in.
Met Lotta nice Expediters 2day
,thanks for dinner .
& have a busy day in the morning.
learned a lot from the Henrickson's display .
gotta go
Veteran Expediter
Did you notice how quickly we got things put away when that rain hit?? Expediting at its finest.
Well we made it to our first MATS.
Louisville is a very nice town. Linda and I always wanted to
stop and spend some time here.
At last we have.
The show is huge. We walked the entire inside exhibits.
Took us 8 hours. Man were my dogs barking after that.
Got a great yardstick from the Progressive booth.
Got a t-shirt and picture taken with the HOOTERS girls.......sigh.
Really great show.
Oh yeah, our new truck in the Fedex booth is nice.
Louisville is a very nice town. Linda and I always wanted to
stop and spend some time here.
At last we have.
The show is huge. We walked the entire inside exhibits.
Took us 8 hours. Man were my dogs barking after that.
Got a great yardstick from the Progressive booth.
Got a t-shirt and picture taken with the HOOTERS girls.......sigh.
Really great show.
Oh yeah, our new truck in the Fedex booth is nice.
Eheheheheh I crack myself up.
Okay here are a couple of pics of the truck. I am in the drivers seat.
I was torn between the two trucks. But we eventually settled on the plain ol white one.
Okay here are a couple of pics of the truck. I am in the drivers seat.
I was torn between the two trucks. But we eventually settled on the plain ol white one.
moose
Veteran Expediter
I did not read the letter, because they wouldn't allow me the whole 14 Min. to read it.
i did noted some points out toward the end .
mainly saying they need to do more of those listening sessions where truck can park.
that the ATA dose not represent the trucking industry, and told them why.
that the shortage of truck parking in large city's, and understaffed shippers/receivers is a direct results of the gov. shortcoming.
and also some other points.
i missed most of the session, but from what i did witness, many other drivers spoke very well about some of my letter points, so i kind of glad for not reading the letter.
i do have a way to submit it online, and they will specifically look for it.
i need to 1st re-wright it, to only address what i did had the chance to say.
overall, i think drivers did a good job, explaining the challenges we face, and we gut it in the book, so we can sue the crap out of the fmcsa when they ignore our input, which they will.
i did noted some points out toward the end .
mainly saying they need to do more of those listening sessions where truck can park.
that the ATA dose not represent the trucking industry, and told them why.
that the shortage of truck parking in large city's, and understaffed shippers/receivers is a direct results of the gov. shortcoming.
and also some other points.
i missed most of the session, but from what i did witness, many other drivers spoke very well about some of my letter points, so i kind of glad for not reading the letter.
i do have a way to submit it online, and they will specifically look for it.
i need to 1st re-wright it, to only address what i did had the chance to say.
overall, i think drivers did a good job, explaining the challenges we face, and we gut it in the book, so we can sue the crap out of the fmcsa when they ignore our input, which they will.
moose
Veteran Expediter
may it be called : "we Love's Expediters"