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I called the Fern Bennet agency last thursday to inquire about my 2003 Registration and Cab Card. I was told by some one that they just found out on Wedensday that Oklahoma was not going to renew registrations for trucks leased to Fedex CC and Conway Now. The reason is that in the lease...

Many of us served in the Military and know what it!s like to be away from home during the Holidays.It can be a very lonely time.American On Line has a address called "writethetroops @aol.com.These messages then get forwarded on to our military forces serving overseas. I sent one earlier just...

In the last 2 years my cell phone has been cloned twice. It happend on the Labor Day weekend in 2001 and on October 12 this year. Both times the signal was picked up in the New York Ciry area. When the phone is on even if it is not being used it still transmits a small signal to the closest...

I know there have been other posts about satellite radio but I wanted to give my experiences with the Delphi XM setup.Last month I bought the vehicle setup from Best Buy for $200. It has the tuner,antenna,power cord and a cassett adapter to play through your existing radio. It took about 20...

Thought I would pass this on to all FDX CC drivers is that FDX Safety Department uses a company called Safety Service from Wellington Ohio to follow and write a written report as too how a FDX CC vehicle is being driven plus the condition of the vehicele. I have been checked twice by the same...

A while back I posted my thoughts and comments about Fedex CC and how I personally felt about the future of the company. I posted that I felt in the future Fedex CC would become a much smaller entity and I may have been right on the money with that, Those of you that can get stock quotes through...

Over the last few months I have been following the Fedex CC posts with a lot of interest and have watched many long term Fedex CC Contractors leave this company for other endeavors. I have had many discussions with friends that drive for Fedex,running B,C D and E units. No one is happy. My own...

Since I have time on my hands these days I thought I would post something a little different. The other day Mr Barry Bonds signed a 5 year contract with the San Francisco Giants for $90 Million dollars. Fueled by some Coors Light I did some math last night.His contract works out to $18 Million...

I thought I would pass on to owners of FL 70/80/112 trucks a cheap and effective method to protect yourself from someone trying to break into the truck while you are in the sleeper.This might work in other trucks but I am not familar with the cab layout. Last winter I was laying over in...

Rumors going around that Geo has left Fedex CC,any truth to that George??

I heard on my local radio station today that Art Bell will be returning to all night radio effective Feb 5,2001. Now we can go back to UFO stories,alien abductions,near death experiences,etc.I always found Art to be very entertaining while driving on those all night trips.After a while the...

Well what has happened to our colleague Garry Addis. Gary I figured,based on what has happened over the last few days you would have had a lot to say.Are you disgusted with the Democrats litigating over any issue that they can find.I wonder why Al (lets count them again)Gore only wanted heavily...

Those of us with Fedex receive a tape cassette 4 times a year called the Contractors news.It!s usually quite condensending but thats another story.This last one had a announcement that Fedex CC has started a load board called www.URGENTFREIGHT.COM. If you look at it is similar to Lawerence!s...

Since most of our respective dispatchers belive we are stupid hayseeds that just crawled out from under the plow,you can wow them with a IQ Test.Log on to www.iqtest.com and see how you do,takes 13 minutes and is a lot of fun.

WendyCal and I are kicking around the idea of a chat room at a specific time for all of us in the expediting field to compare notes,cry on each others shoulders,etc.She suggested Sunday evenings. Most of us are at home or layed over somewhere on Sundays so just checking to see if there would be...

It has been reported on some of the general trucking web sites that a driver was recently killed at the Petro in Stony Ridge (Toledo) Ohio. He apparently entered a shower at 0530 and when by 0930 he had not exited,the Petro employees went in and found him dead with numerous stab wounds in his...

Just got home from 12 days out west, Went to New Mexico,Arizona, California ,Wyoming and then to Raleigh NC. Nice running lots of $.Looks like diesel is coming down while gasoline is going up,Paid 1.23 in Cheyenne WY,$1.21 in TN etc.Gasoline in Omaha was $1.90 per gallon.. Article in this months...

Well it looks like Fedexcc (Roberts) is going to finally enforce the workers comp or occupational insurance clause in their lease.I don!t see how the fleets will be able to do this and keep their drivers on a contractor vs employee basis.Also teams will suffer by having to pay out more as the...