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    surge

    Ok, i am sittin here waiting for the February surge of load offers.I guess I'll go back to the buffet. Tommorow must be when the surge begains.
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    Expediting song of the month?

    Drivers when dispatch calls you to say the load just cancelled. Just reach for your Conway Twitty dvd and play DON'T! take it awayyyy.
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    Expediting song of the month?

    i nominate Otis Redding's song* sittin on the dock in the bay
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    anyone else on the Nashville Boards?????

    drive on upto the J x182 ill let you buy me a coke. i am not a cat but we can be friends
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    Reefers and Explosives

    my company policy is you are never to smoke reefer while hauling explosives.
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    reduced rates

    col i didnt get the double meaning or the $30 $40 a mile comment. I do not have near the over head as the big boys. I do not need to charge anywhere near what they charge. But a shipper receiving offers from various companies all closely priced than receives a quote from somebody they never...
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    reduced rates

    i am testing the waters.* I plan on approaching some local shippers directly but i had/have no idea what the average rate carriers are charging. no personal communication just automated. and personal communication with drivers at truckstops and some eo's who said they have seen* the bills
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    reduced rates

    yes ovm that was my point except for nlm or other boards. When the carrier's are dealing direct with shippers their rates per mile doesn't seem to have gone down. Now when the middle man has been added like NLM or other bid boards the rates I know have come down. Brokers and Carriers are...
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    reduced rates

    layout, this year are you having any of your shippers tring to get you to reduce your rates because "everbody' else is. i have met drivers at truckstops that have said they have seen at the shippers what their an other companies are charging, between $2.50 upto $4.00 a mile for small trucks.
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    reduced rates

    I am and independant. I have gotten on fedx, conway, and abf web site and worked there instant quote system the rates they were going to charge me was over $2. 00 amile sometimes agreat deal more than 2 dollars under 3000 lbs shorter than 15 feet. And those rates were LTL not expedited.
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    reduced rates

    I have been hearing o/os complaining about their rates being reduced from various companies. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong. It appears to me that driver pay per mile has gone down. but company rate charged to shipper has not. Comanies are doing this to off set the reduction of...
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    Is this normal?

    I just went through 1 st year dot audit per dot cv sprinters are not required to have drug test. companies usually require it because if you get in accident it shows that they the company went the extra effort to hire safe drivers. Furthermore a company can get in trouble if they tell you you...
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    An expediters prayer

    Looking for loads all over the place sBooking loads to all the wrong place sLooking for non LTL loads going to all the write placesLooking at cats all over the place sEven Canucks in someplace sOoh that cat how he pace sCooking a load to fill my empty place sOwing a load to to many place s
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    TV through the internet?

    hey J you can ,so i hear, buy this program where you can watch 2000 or so local channels from around the world from your computer. I ran into and expediter who said he did it for a while. i was getting e mail offers for one and ebay was selling a program also
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    An expediters prayer

    A tisket a tasket if I got a load I would be bombasket instead I need a casket.
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    TV through the internet?

    ovm turns loads down all the time because it would interrupt ncis
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    Major loss in the battle against cheap freight!!

    fedx exclusive use policy means only one customer's freight in truck at a time.
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    Anyone moving

    thx ovm I talked with the big E Saturday they said no trucks with in 100 miles of little rock. i am 55 from searcy.
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    New Guy

    before you get into expediting you better have a large cash reserve. This is a bad time for expediting and there is a large learning curve. Landstar pays well but they sit more
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    Anyone moving

    well i hope i have better luck in little rock. i am hoping for a load monday. i did just miss a load today going to north platte early saturday
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