So how did YOU become an Expeditor?

[EnglishLady]

If you had asked me two years ago if I could travel over the road in a tin can, with no overnight stays in hotels, I would have laughed my socks off

(I say travel OTR because hubby does all the driving LOL, & has been OTR for many, many years)

But I cannot imagine doing anything else now - my previous life (Senior Administrtor - Purchasing) is all but a memory - & I can't believe how I stayed stuck in an office all those years

So how did your life as an Expeditor start?​

 

[jjoerger]

Went broke, got hungry,here we are.

 

[skyraider]

Will cut to the chase, wish I had found this line of work in the summer of 1970 after 4 years in the service. So 40 years later here I am and love it.
Best part: can come and go when I want to, working for someone who tells u when to come and go is insane.

 

[Jenny]

My mom and dad are expediters. One day they were at the J in West Memphis, and there was this young guy cleaning his van up after he got done washing it. He was also an expediter. My mom and dad started talking to him, and asked him if he was married or had kids, and how often he went home and such. After saying he wasn't married and didn't have a girlfriend, my mom took a picture of him and sent it to me. She also showed him some pictures of me, and gave him a piece of paper with all of my information, minus my social security number. After talking for a while we had our first date. A month or so later, I lost my job, at the Ford dealer, and came out for a week long ride along, to FL to meet some of his friends. After riding with him for a 3 week long vacation, I decided that if I were to leave and go home, that our relationship probably wouldn't last. So I rode along with him from July until January when I got my license, and we started driving team. Been doing it since January of 2009. We got a load to California after Christmas last year, and stopped in Las Vegas over New Years and got married. If it wasn't for expediting, I wouldn't have met my wonderful husband, and wouldn't be out here enjoying some of the best times of our life.

 

[EnglishLady]

We got a load to California after Christmas last year, and stopped in Las Vegas over New Years and got married. If it wasn't for expediting, I wouldn't have met my wonderful husband, and wouldn't be out here enjoying some of the best times of our life.

Absolutely fantastic - Congratulations

 

[Slo-Ride]

I think I once seen a road side sign that read...

Big Bucks for Big Trucks
Of course that sign and slogan is long gone,,along with the dream of big bucks

 

[louixo]

I drove the big rigs for several years. I always loved trucks and the road. Some kids wanted to be firemen, pilots, doctors, race car drivers etc. I always wanted to drive a really big truck.
I went into expediting as an experiment because of the size of the truck after several years on the road . I love to shop, and a D unit allowed me to go into any shopping center, where in my TT days I had to pass alot of them because they didn't allow TTs. I still like both, but being in expediting gave me much more freedom in places i could get to.

 

[ATeam]

So how did your life as an Expeditor start?

A retired trucker we knew could not stand being home after two years and bought a tractor to get back on the road. I had something for sale that he came by to purchase. Proud of his new truck, he drove it to our house and took Diane and I for our first-ever ride in a tractor.

That got us to thinking. The thinking got us to researching. The research got us into expediting. Before that fateful ride, it never entered our minds to leave our white-collar professions to drive a truck for a living. Now it is hard to imagine life anywhere other than on the road.