It's a Team's Life
What do you haul?
We are an odd niche in the trucking world and many over the road drivers shake their heads when they hear what we have hauled or how much weight we hauled. We keep America going when someone has forgot to order a product or an unexpected breakdown has occurred.
We are also very good at load securement, something that the many of our big brothers do not bother with. When Bob drove for US Xpress we often did not secure a load or if anything added one load bar. Many of our friends in the truckload category do not carry anything to secure a load. We carry over 30 straps and blankets along with corner protectors and many other specialty items. We have a pallet jack; piano dollies and we carry plywood so that we can build a walkway if needed. Every piece of freight that is loaded onto our truck is treated as if it is priceless.
We once picked up a small two-pound box of air conditioning fittings in Saint Louis that needed to be in Denver the next morning. A crew was working on a school and in order to finish the job they needed these special fittings.
We were in New Jersey and picked up gin essence, which if I understand it right is what is added in the production of gin to create the smell. The load was HazMat and a straight through delivery to Arkansas. We arrived early just as the plant was letting their workers go home. When plant management saw us they quickly turned the workers around and headed them back in the building. When we backed into the dock the scientists were waiting with their beakers and test strips to test the product so it could go straight to the production line. Management was thrilled at the money we were able to save them.
We picked up a truckload of tires in California that went to New Jersey to be installed on a shipload of cars that had tires that were not legal in the United States. This load filled the truck up and is one of the few that has ever managed to do this.
We have hauled hospital beds that we took from our truck right up to the room they were going to be moved to. We have hauled bedside tables that were rolled into their resting space. We have hauled massive computers that required us to uncrate them and place them in their respective places. We have gone into closed bank branches, literally unplugged the desktop computers and printers and loaded them onto our truck. If a product needs special handling expediting is the way to haul it.
As a team we pick up the load and we deliver the load. The freight is not transferred and we have often had the engineers place the freight on our truck, catch a flight and meet us at the other end to unload their product.
Expediting is a specialized service with a lot of customer interaction. Many of our customers have never dealt with truckload carriers and they expect us to be a professional and courteous as upper level management. They are correct to think this way as we own a successful business and we treat our customers very well as they are what keeps our business in the black.
Bob & Linda Caffee
Leased to: FedEx Custom Critical 

TeamCaffee

Saint Louis MO
Expediters 6 years been out here on the road 11 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.