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Other than leaving out a five minute conversation with a neighbor standing beside my truck before I climbed in to see if I had indeed gotten dispatch info, that's just exactly how it went down. P/U is 10/2 at 1700, so we don't have to leave till first thing in the morning. One last night in...

There's more than one way to make yourself feel dumb in this business. In addition to going the wrong way or to the wrong city (as a recent thread disclosed) how about accidentally accepting a load you didn't want, for example. We're at home, but as of noon 10/1 back in service available. I...

On the topic of "trust but verify..." I recently selected several recent pro numbers which we had run and called our co-ordinator at FDCC to see if I could get copies of the bills to the customer so that I could verify what we were being paid (and who was actually paying the bill). The...

Financial "experts" tell us that about 2 weeks ago the economy nearly seized up and shut down. The Secretary of the Treasury and the head of the Fed ran to the President in a panic warning of immanent collapse if emergency measures weren't taken. Since that time the government pumped $85...

We've been expediting for nearly 4 years, and I resisted the idea that the companies would "cheat" drivers, since I thought their lawyers would shoot down anything which blatently violated the terms of the contract we have with them. I finally accepted it as a possibility when another driver...

How to cheat your independent contractor owner/operators in two easy steps: Step 1: Create a freight brokerage company separate from your freight transportation operations. Step 2: Take all orders for shipments through your brokerage company, charging as much as you can get; ship all...

I admit I didn't watch any of it (too busy that week), but are you suggesting that the Dem's didn't take snippy little shots at the GOP during their convention? If so, it would have been newsworthy for it's uniqueness in recent political "debate." Surely at least one speaker took a shot at...

In Greek, the first letter of the word "Christ" is spelled with the letter "chi" which in written form looks very much like an "X". For a very long time, like almost since the beginning of the church, "x" has been used as an abbreviation for Christ. Theology students routinely use the letter...

I just wanted to pass this along to other FECC drivers who are offered loads going to or from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Because KSC gets their mail through a post office zip code in Orlando, all load information related to their location is wrong. Following the city to city routing to...

I actually have used "You're kidding, right?" on a couple of occasions. Usually when the offer was in the 60 cents a mile range, or the DH was more than double the loaded miles. My most common response is "Low pay all miles = bad business" which puts the ball in their court. It reminds them of...

Must be something in the aire, 'cause I had a similar sort of week, though not quite as bad. Started out on Monday AM early, picking up one of those loads that makes you wonder about people: one envelope weighing less than 1 pound. We took it from the Dayton OH area to Pittsburg PA. Layover...

RE: Calculating trip mileage to determine making $ I was recently offered a load that was paying too little, and when I turned it down I was asked what I needed to take it. I ran the numbers and told the dispatcher he wouldn't pay that much, but I might be able to cut him some slack. I...

I have to say that I got a bunch of those offers with ridiculously long deadheads for short hauls a couple of weeks ago, to which one of my turn down explanations was "You're kidding, right?" I don't know that it was related to the contest, though. I noted that the beginning of that crap...

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Maybe I'm missing something. I've read a lot of "I'm out of here" type messages this past week, wherein drivers announce that they are quitting the biz or at least parking their trucks for the duration due to high fuel prices. I can't think of a reason why the prices would make me quit, sell...

Anybody else heard the broadcast message that says we can now find our own loads, and the company will only keep 15% if the load/customer meets their qualifications? They say we no longer have to cover signs and get our own authority/insurance this way. Any thoughts? BigRed32771

>>There is something else to consider. You run the risk of >>getting hurt when you do inside deliveries/pickups and lift >>gate loads. >> >> > > >Is FedEx White Glove intended to compete with the moving >companies? >It was often the Special Products divisons of moving >companies who hauled...

Yeah, well, that's true. No one at FECC could ever give me a good explanation for how I was to cover all of their signs, including the huge ones on my box sides and back door. You can do it while working for them, but not on their authority or permits, I gather.

My ProHeat generator attracted a lot of attention on our recent 8-week run. People would ask about the cost, and how much it takes to run it, etc. I finally did a rough calculation to give them that figured if you the genrator 10 hours a night, run 43 weeks a year, staying in the truck every...

Having just made a long deadhead trip home with no help (loads along the way) from my company, I was just wondering which companies will let you go out and find your own load when they don't have one for you. Obviously, PantherII will. FedEx won't, if I have understood them correctly when I...