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This is a big country There is opportunity Being in business as a company or owner op for that matter, we are more optimistic in nature. Am I happy with how things are going? Heck No!!!! But the sky isn't falling.... Yet I was also pointing out in my post, this situation in Europe is...

Europe will affect things but not like in 2008 when things domestically were much worse and our own financial institutions were in trouble. Now these institutions have good cash on hand from bailout money they didn't spend. People are slowly going back to work and banks are lending a little...

Phone systems are all different but essentially work the same. The company programs the system where and to whom to distribute the calls. If your on long holds then there isn't enough staff. Companies are going to be leaning on more technology like QC etc to communicate basic messages to get...

We have worked with them. Seem like nice folks. Can't speak about their o/o program.

I am a mod on a different forum It's a tough and thankless job. It's a fine line enforcing the rules of the forum yet doing it in a way that's not heavy handed. Being this site charges carriers for advertising i can see the challenges of moderation more so then on other boards. I found...

Beginning of the month is usually little slower. Hopefully we all will have a busy 7 weeks till July! I Don't think any of us is going to knock the cover off the ball, but should just be busy enough we can all make a penny or two! ;)

It's a nice van for sure. The one leased to us has 10 foot of cargo space. Sometimes it's a little tough finding sprinter freight for it FYI. No doubt, it's real sharp!

Carriers will split off loads all the time if they think there is a chance of an HOS violation. Paper logs you can get to the destination and shut down in the parking lot and get delivered if your running tight on hours. Single drivers at the larger carriers are not as productive then in the...

Man that's brutal! Hard enough business as it is

Ditto Most expedites are exclusive use trucks, not a recommended practice to double book expedites

I would think there are several factors for this. Electronic logs to some point reduced driver productivity. Also fleet size, seems trucks tend to sit a little more along with reduced load opportubities. Cost of insurance has doubled.. Quadrupled for fuel and the rates have been the same for 15...

Your right, all you need to do is recalculate eta after a delay at the shipper. Not rocket science, still don't understand how some customers expect us to deliver at the original delivery time after a several hour delay.

Lol I can see Beachbum's point. The way I worded it wasn't clear as far as our policy. And too some carriers have gotten and reputation for not dealing with ops in a positive way so I can see where he is coming from. I have also read concerns regarding these type of policies where dispatch...

I don't believe many carriers have "fines in their contract". Allow me to clarify. How would Landstar react if a driver delivered 5 hours late and shut a line down and it was 100% driver error? Should the driver expect to be paid? Say the driver overslept.. Knew what time he had to be there no...

If you don't have consequences in place for these type of things some drivers will not do what is required. Point being this is discussed in orientation and listed in their driver hand books and they know what's expected before they hit the road. Bottom line, if you have to resort to fining...

Obama or Romney? Do i want to hit my thumb or toe with a sledgehammer? Other parties or movements within parties are needed in order to have some real options in this country. All these bought and paid for fools do is argue how to spend money we borrow from China.

If it ain't broke don't fix it I see people making a lot of money day trading stocks, but I no nothing about it so I'm not going to do it! If your making good money at what your doing, focus on your core business and make that more profitable. This is a racket, if your going to do it hire...

People paying the cost look at the bottom line, how it costs to ship the product. If you raising your prices due to fsc and a competitor isn't, sometimes you will loose the business.

Shippers use more then one carrier. Some carriers won't raise the rates and capture the business. If the shipper is still getting serviced for the old price, why pay more? This is not always the norm, but it happens more then you think. Shippers at times don't think they should pay more for a...

Brokers are not making all this money as assumed. Rates are very slow to react to fuel price increases. Brokers are also fighting it out for these shipments as well. You win some and loose some just like owner operators. The biggest cost factor and always will be is supply and demand for...