Panther Expedite Expanding In Different Ways

firefighter1972 · Sep 19, 2007

This was on XM so I could not read or hear about it. I was just wondering what Panther was up to now. Thank you for your Time Brian Panther TRK#5327:7

Falligator · Sep 19, 2007

Haven't heard anything about that either...guess I'm not in the XM loop...lol
**whatever it is i hope it keeps us busy**

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Dreamer · Sep 19, 2007

Brian,
Just follow the link in the article. Or, just go to http://www.expediternewsbreak.com/ and click on 'listen to this week's show'. On highspeed or wifi it downloads in just a few seconds.. dial up, about 4-5 minutes.

Past shows are also available for download.

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firefighter1972 · Sep 19, 2007

I just found that On the net Thank you I was nothing realy. And about keeping us busy, got I hope that they start soon as a solo it has been slow.

Dave Johnson · Sep 20, 2007

They're just trying to get us more runs from the West Coast basically. I think the bottom line is, no one wants to run out there, so they're finally concentrating on getting us some backhauls.

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Smokediver511 · Sep 20, 2007

Panther needs to start Hiring more Sales Force east of Mississippi. Nobody wants to run anywhere east of there because you sit and have miles of deadhead if you dont. (But mostlikely you will Dead Head the miles to get back into a Freight Aera if you want a load!)

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RichM · Sep 20, 2007

Are you sure you mean East of Mississippi and not West?

davekc · Sep 20, 2007

I would think they mean west of the Mississippi. Return frieght from the west tends to be seasonal if just looking at expedite only loads.

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arkjarhead · Sep 21, 2007

Running the west coast would be sweet if you could get return frieght. I'd much rather run west of the mississppi than i would east of it. Frieght just isn't that great for expedite over here though. I think in 10 years expedite will be more of a 48 state operation than it is now. Especially as all these companies are focusing less energy on the auto industry and looking at other industries to get frieght from.

arkjarhead · Sep 21, 2007

My friend that lives down the street is leased on to panther in an e unit and he stays busy. What he does is utilize the fact that let you book your own loads. If he gets a run like he picked up last night in Detroit for monday in Salt Lake City we start looking for him a load out while he's on his way. I found him a load to pick up going to Chicago that will pay his truck 1.73 after Panther takes thier cut. He's getting 2 and some change going out there with fsc included. Then once he gets to Chicago and unloads he'll wait for an expedite for a lil while if he doesn't get one he'll call me and tell me to start looking. This summer if everything works out with my medicine I'm gonna run team with him while I'm outta school so we can both make a lil extra. Everyone has thier own way of doing things, and that's his. He's making pretty good doing it to. The good thing for me is he gives me some cash for finding the loads.