Time to chill Greg.It's getting personal and that sucks.I'm not sure how it got so heated but it's not healthy.Sorry if I offended you.Lets kkep it civil,leave the personal stuff alone on both sides.

Congrats on 8K posts!!! A record in our 10 year history! Thanks!

Good afternoon ,hope your holiday went well , im just getting used to this web site and im as you will soon guess a newbie to expiditing ive been an over the road driver for more than 20 yrs so im not new to truckin,my 1st ?is how do you get fed ex qual.2ive got an old open container circa 1990 on my driving record how will this effect the canadian crossings ,and if it does affect it adversly will this affect the $part of expidited driving any thing you can pas onwould be appreciated thanks art beatty

Whats up dude?Taking a break from this craziness? Health is OK,yea?
Just checking in. I think your said you were considering another endeavor. Hope it's all good.

TC

Greg,
I posted the FDCC Compared to Landstar. I maybe was not clear enough in my original post. We are not O/O now. We are driving for a small fleet leased to Fedex. I have found a truck for sale that is leased to Landstar that used to run for Fedex and is W/G and TVAL equipped. The truck is an 04 Pete with 440K miles on it. It has a 106" sleeper with many bells and whistles which is very important to my wife and I since we stay out 2 to 3 months at a time. We have not been at this long, I am a displaced Automotive Engineer and GM figured out they had way to many of us. Somehow through some kind of fate, the wife and I decided to give expediting a try. We have adjusted well to the life style. Are smart enough to have learned the Fedex system very quickly and are not afraid to learn Landstar or any other system. Our only problem with Fedex is that we sit too much. The boss has given us very specific goals for rate/mile and for monthly gross. We have exceeded the rate/mile but consistently come up short on the gross. We really cannot afford to take the express loads due to the rate/mile that is typically offered.

As regards to our bottom line, we are not making enough money sitting as much as we do. If we could get the truck to average $22-$24K a month we would be okay.

The truck we are looking at is listing for $55k. And we would be able to put down almost 1/2 of that. So my thinking is that we might do as much as 50% better on our bottom line if we could hit similar numbers as we are currently hitting with Fedex.

I would like to talk with in more detail and am hoping you might give me a call

Thanks for your feedback to date.

Bill Edwards
sweetbillebob@yahoo.com
248.930.8827