It's a Team's Life
Business Partner
Bob and I spent two-years looking for our business partner as we needed a partner that had truck smarts. Our future business partner needed to fit a professional image, had to have business smarts as we did not need a silent partner that could empty our bank accounts, and we needed a business partner that could accompany us when we decided to take a break from trucking and become tourists.
We were not content to choose our future business partner based solely on good looks and manners, we needed to perform a background check. We started our search in earnest during the 2009 Mid America Truck Show (MATS) while we learned about DEF. Next we headed up to Detroit Diesel to tour the engine plant. While there we watched as the DD13 engine blocks were brought to life and also spent time learning about the years of research that had went into creating the DD series before they came into production. Not only were we looking for a truck that had the perfect fit we needed a sleeper that could accommodate out needs.
Our first goal when we started researching sleepers was to find what we considered the safest aftermarket sleeper made. We looked at all of the sleepers while at truck shows and we talked to drivers. Not content to have a background check on our truck we also did a background check on our sleeper. We stopped in the manufacturing shop of Bentz Custom Trucks and spent some time going over how their sleeper is created. We knew how our first sleeper was made and through our talks with other sleeper manufactures we had a good idea of what we wanted. Watching how the Bentz sleeper was created with all of the safety features we knew that this sleeper would be the perfect fit for our business partner as well as us on long weekends.
We talked with more engineers, sales professionals, and drivers, finally our background check was complete and we signed on our business partner, our 2012 Cascadia with a Bolt Custom Trucks Sleeper.
First is our business and the face of our business is the Cascadia pulling onto a customer’s lot. The right impression is immediately set before Bob steps out of the truck wearing a uniform sporting a tie.
Our Cascadia has affectionately been dubbed the "Caffcadia"
by many of our peers in the Expedite world.
We were away from home over 300 days last year and use our truck to work
hard and play hard.
Our business partner
is always ready to pickup and deliver a load and the next day enter a truck
beauty contest.
The Cascadia is an extension of our personalities.
One moment we are pulling into an RV
Campground for a relaxing weekend and the next pulling on FedEx Corporate
property.
Our Cascadia has met Fred
Smith, CEO and Founder of FedEx as well as Bill Logue CEO of FedEx
Freight.
Both were very impressed with
our business partner’s lifetime fuel mileage average of 11.451.
To wrap it up the Caffcadia was a very truck smart choice
for us as she has been virtually maintenance free, looks natural backed into a
dock or sitting next to a Prevost.
We
are able to stay out on the road longer to be more profitable and at the same
time enjoy the many of the sites the country has to offer.
It is much easier now to perform a background
check on your future business partner using the Freightliner Team Run Smart web
pages as well as Expediters Online.
Bob & Linda Caffee
TeamCaffee

Saint Louis MO
Expediters 8 years been out here on the road 13 years
Expediting isn't just trucking, it's a lifestyle; 

Expediting isn't just a lifestyle, it's an adventure;

Expediting isn't just an adventure, it's a job;

Expediting isn't just a job, it's a business.