[mcclain]

The company I work with is mostly TL, but, here in Fort Wayne we run the LTL stuff as well.
But, we did not and will not toss our whole LTL division into the basket with all the expediting companies and depend on the automotive industry to keep the expedite trucks moving.
We can offer up our smaller trucks to haul anything our standard TL customers may have but don't want to spend the money to ship it TL.
In alot of cases we place a couple of those loads on one straight truck and we are good to go and the customer is pleased as well.
The expediting companies have painted themselves into a corner with their success like stated on a previous post above. Now, in order to survive the sales forces has to get out there and find other markets to reach. The draw back to that is - the TL companies already have those covered.
Its going to be tough for the expedite companies to take away from the TL companies but it will and has been easier for the TL companies to tap into the LTL market.

[Moot]

Originally Posted by mcclain

Its going to be tough for the expedite companies to take away from the TL companies but it will and has been easier for the TL companies to tap into the LTL market.

How true! Especially since the traditional average expedite load is much smaller weight and volume wise than the average TL. When using TL, may I assume you mean truck load and in the year 2008 that means at least a 48' trailer and most likely a 53 footer?

As far as the TL companies tapping into the LTL market that has been going on for at least 30 years that I can attest to.

Thanks for the kumquat-mango-donkey analogy. I can see clearly now the oranges are gone. I can see all apples in my way.

On a more personal note Frank, Chuck, Fort, Greg, Sybil or who ever you are today; when it comes to posting meaningless, useless drivel I consider myself in the top 10 here on E.O. I believe your posts to be competition and I will do my best to remain in the top 10 above you. You're going to have to do better to over take me.

I guess if all of your posts were under one name only, I would have to concede the title of Drivel King to you. But they're not! So BAN THE VAN! Practice the blown steer tire drill. Drink blinker fluid daily. Eat celery and post like tomorrow is just another word for the day after today. Buy union, eat union and live union. But when it comes to liver... I don't even like liver. But I do like onions. Teamster picked onions! Teamster trucked onions! Teamster grocery house distributed onions. I like onions. Put them all in the same bowel and what do you get?

[cheri1122]

"Put them all in the same bowel and what do you get?"

Marvin K Wagner - what else?

Another classic, Moot - thanks for making me laugh. The world is insane - but it's darned funny, sometimes.

[Moot]

Boney onions?

[x06col]

Mootie for Prez!!!

[highway star]

Originally Posted by x06col

Mootie for Prez!!!

Here, here!! A chinchilla in every pot!

[davekc]

Did I miss another mega-merger?

[CharlesD]

Originally Posted by davekc

Did I miss another mega-merger?

I'm merging with Express-1, but it's not a done deal yet. It might take until Wednesday to get all the details ironed out and the paperwork done. I tried to get Panther to come aboard as well, but we couldn't come to an agreement on whose dispatchers to use.

[Jefferson3000]

Originally Posted by CharlesD

I'm merging with Express-1, but it's not a done deal yet. It might take until Wednesday to get all the details ironed out and the paperwork done. I tried to get Panther to come aboard as well, but we couldn't come to an agreement on who's dispatchers to use.

C'mon Charles. Why'd ya have to go that way. You know that once the Fed dumps their CC division into my company and T-state merges, you're going to have a lot of competition. Better hire some new recruiters to drop some innocent "spam" ads onto the EO forum.

Oh, and fire up and extra coffee pot. Better make it dark roast.

[arkjarhead]

Originally Posted by davekc

Did I miss another mega-merger?

You didn't know? North American Van Lines, Schneider, and J.B. Hunt were merging? They are going to call it the North American Pumpkin Hunt. They started working things out yesterday. Everything should be squared away at lunch time, supper time at the very latest tomorrow. You should be able to read all about it Tuesday morning in the Wall Street Journal.

[Jack_Berry]

Originally Posted by ThibodeauxBayou

You're exactly 100% correct. It's not like this is NEW news. The auto biz's has been falling off for many years.
Those interested in getting out of this rut may just wanna start thinking about the "other" ways to make you and your truck some income.

.....are you saying two men and a truck will take a 22' sleeper truck?

[Jack_Berry]

Originally Posted by Moot

How true! . Buy union, eat union and live union. But when it comes to liver... I don't even like liver. But I do like onions. Teamster picked onions! Teamster trucked onions! Teamster grocery house distributed onions. I like onions. Put them all in the same bowel and what do you get?

i thought you wrote bowl.

in our kitchen you get danish liverpaste. add anchovies and grind 6 times. never know they are there.

[csands007]

Originally Posted by TimeBandit

I have been working for Prestige for about six weeks now and they can't find me loads anywhere in the country. I keep on hearing excuses like; it's monday and things are slow on monday, it's friday and things are either really busy on fridays of really slow fridays.

They keep on telling me that they are bidding on over a hundred loads an hour. That's more than one bid per minute. Their dispatchers must be really good. I heard they had to call in the fire department to hose down the keyboards because they were bidding on so many loads the keys caught on fire. I also heard they have to buy new CPU's every couple of hours because they burn them out due to the amount of bidding they do on NLM. Yesterday, they almost had me a load, but the computer overheated before they could win the bid.

Oh, wait in the area "we have regular customers!" Well, apparently after I was hired on "all of their regular customers" conveniently stopped calling in loads. I guess this company is going to hell in a handbasket. I heard they had trouble paying the light bill this month and had to use parafin candles to light up the dispatch office. They also make their dispatchers come to work wearing glow in the dark t-shirts so they can see where they are going in the middle of the night. Sometimes they force their dispatchers to leave their cars running in the parking lots with HVAC hoses piped in off their ac units to provide the office with air-conditioning. It's really bad; beware of them!

I'm not with Prestige now but they are far from going under, They made over $178 million last year from reports. They have one of the largest delivery systems in US. The expediting is just a small part. I used to work for both (Delivery & Expediting) and have a friend who is management position, and they are doing well. They do lots of pharmacy, Staples, Corp Express, Automotive, Case New Holland, John Deere plus more routes on a desinated runs in 10 states and have over 40+ warehouses that most are owned. They are a private company not on stock exchange. But anyone told you they couldn't pay their light bill was a bareface liar. Wish they owed me thousands , for three years I was with them never once had trouble with their payroll bouncing. Dayton, Ohio has over 50 drivers alone, so its not true they are going under.

[ThibodeauxBayou]

Originally Posted by Jack_Berry

.....are you saying two men and a truck will take a 22' sleeper truck?

Dunno.

I guess anythings possible tho.

All I know, is that i'd go friggen nutz if I was sitten around somewhere for long periods of time. I did my share waitin [short periods of time] for the beep in my two years with the Fed. Back then we were more concerned with 36 hour re-sets than we were with sitten. Allots changed in the 2 1/2 years since we left.
Personally, i'd do just bout anything to generate revenue. If I had to move furniture....so be it. If you own or are making payments on a vehicle, then you've got to progress past the barrier of what's keeping you sitting.

[flattop40]

Heard Obama was going to merge with McCain and Barr and there won't be an election this fall