Recent content by Special K

That "joke" about John buying his drivers dinner is not a joke. Late last night, the night dispatcher called us and said he was sending us an express code for a $100 Comcheck to pay for our Thanksgiving dinner. Not to be charged back later, a gift from John. Many thanks, John! Marda & Doc (3015)

We, too, jumped from E-1 to Load One after 3 months. It's lucky for the other companies that John doesn't want to grow his company too fast. We have no doubt that he COULD have a huge fleet, if he wanted one. Brian, the only recruiter, has been run ragged since this post started! Load One is...

I didn't want to hijack the TA thread, but wondered if many know about the Patriot Farms restaurants. They are found at 4 truck stops that used to be Petro, but are now Flying J - hey, no Denny's here! - Carnesville, GA, Elkton, MD, Ruther Glen, VA and Florence, SC. There's an interesting story...

Sent you a private message.

Yes, of course, I know about that. Through the years I've repeatedly urged others to put their agreements into writing. In one of my posts above I described the reasons for which written evidence is much better than mere oral evidence. Doc.

We've been off EO for a while, or I'd have seen this before and said something. First, FedExCC lost the Pfizer account, quite a while ago, and Express-1 got it. We've done one of those loads since we switched. I fail to see what people think is so bad about flat rate. When we changed...

Since I can no longer post on the FedEx forum, I'll put this here, hoping that some of those 32 folks (so far) who contacted me (in response to my "Purple No More" post) by PM's will see it, along with others who may find this interesting. It is not addressed to those who are happy with the way...

Hi again - I see you've gotten my reply to your PM. I don't mean to be pushy, but I hope you'll want to see the chart I mentioned. We've made our first trip. No "critical departure" message, as if we can't figure out how long it will take us to get to the shipper. No 15 min. wait for someone to...

Linda - Thanks for the wishes. I'm saving the "where" for private messages (of which I've received several already. I didn't expect that!) Marda

Some of you may have wondered, "Would my company care if I left?" Now we can answer that. A bit of background to set the scene: We started with Roberts Express in 1995, so we have as much history at the company as most others. Yesterday (Friday), Doc and I gave our 10-day written notice...

It is probably true that they have a lot of trouble retaining "enough" T/T's. So many drivers come from "big trucking" (general freight) and can't get rid of the mindset that "if you don't get the miles, you don't get the money." Almost all of them have a really hard time with the "sitting and...

Nope, it's really really new - like a few days.

Probably 'most everybody already knows, but for those who haven't seen the new Weekly Fleet Bulletin, we have 4 new centers. Portland, OR (POR), Salt Lake City (SLC), Albuquerque (ABQ) and Las Vegas (LSV). I've been wondering for at least 2 yrs why they didn't make SLC and LSV EC's, 'cause they...

Don't know about E-1, but at FedEx we just call the company, and someone waves a magic wand and changes it to whatever we ask for.

Since I was the one who quoted the .7 mi limit initially, I thought I'd add this. About 10 days ago, Doc and I had breakfast with Terry O'Connell in St. Louis. When I mentioned the .7 mi., he said that the system has a variable range, he thought it was .7 to 3 miles, and that FedEx had just...