Recent content by terryandrene

Lawrence was a dear friend who we met when we each were cargo van o/o's for Roberts Express, the forerunner of FedEx Custom Critical. Rene and I worked with Lawrence and Debbie at MATS where their first booth was a small table on the corner of a rug at the rear of the Stoops Freightliner...

If you want to be like your Dad, do like your Dad

Typically, established carriers compensate contractors on a percentage of the tariff. Fleet owners most often compensate their drivers on a 60/40 or 40/60 percentage basis. I would think that your owner would be helpful with the information you need to transition to vehicle ownership and a...

I product that I used on each of four vans was Min-wax water based polyurethane (Blue label). A clean dry surface is essential. I spent a few extra dollars on Balttic Birch Plywood because it is dense and has a very smooth surface; moreso than AC which is also good. The water based...

Your request for information is too vague and too generalized. Are you wanting to know about the truck operation and maintenance or the freight availability or the revenue potential or contracting with FCC? Are you familiar with reefer operation now or interested in a different line of work?

You are new to this veil of tears so we would wonder why you seem confident that Memphis is a better spot for you and your carrier than Dallas. It will take you a while but for the time being you should try to guesstimate your cost per mile and with that number you can decide what loads are...

Another thread that morphed into a credit card discussion prompted me to offer the following comments. During our driving days and lengthy periods away from home and my mail box, we found it convenient to have many of our recurring bills paid by ‘autopay’ billing to our credit cards. Aside...

Good Luck sailor

With your experience, you should realize that the the freight market can be a fickle place. Cargo/Sprinter van freight is plentiful; however the availability of Sprinters is more plentiful than the market can realistically accommodate, particularly for drivers inexperienced in that market. You...

While a FedEx employee, I was very familiar with the company logo (branding) policy and carried diagrams of all of the possible combinations of signage for each of the vehicle types. One of the requirements was a minimum white space requirements around the signage. I believe the signage on the...

Don't split 10's

CONTIGO is a spill proof mug, fits in many holders keeps cold all day and hot up to 5 hours. I don't know how it knows if the content is hot or cold; it must be magical. I've seen them in Walmart

Those charts are base pay only. There is also a clothing allowance and in some instances sea pay, flight pay, overseas pay, hazardous duty pay, combat pay, isolated duty pay. For military with dependents or where govt. lodging not available, there is housing allowance and coast of living...

Liholiho St off of Pensacola 65 - 67

Ok Snakeo2 That would be a much better option. I've met many successful non-driving owners who ran their own business. I've also seen some fail because they did not fully understand the expedite business model. As a novice, you should think twice about investing in the very saturated cargo...