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When I received my plates from FL in January, they sent me two of them, so I just went ahead and put one on each end of the truck. That means I can't put any custom slogans on the front bumper, but that's okay. I don't really need a Confederate Battle Flag up there anyway....

Raceman has posted several times about using CB's to establish or maintain contact. I've been wondering if we need to start encouraging an "Expeditor's Channel" on the CB for saying hi and chatting as we run. Maybe we could all agree to switch to Ch 17 when we see another Expeditor if we want...

>Another thing we FECC drivers should be screeming about is >the allowance they make for deadheading. > >IE. .15 per mile after first 100 mi(C units).20(D units) > >These are the same figures that have been used for at least >the last 18 years.Totaly unrealistic today. This is something...

>My definition of freight zone is not far off from what's >been said. It varies, but it's mostly luck. More loads come >out of a certain area and while you're there you're most >likely to get a run. As a single driver, I've sat all >weekend in Indianapolis (unlucky), and gotten a run right...

>Sounds like a interesting adventure but without giving >aexact amount, did you make any money? If you dont mind me >asking, how many miles did you actually run all together >including deadhead.? >I am probably missing something but it sounds like more than >50% of dead head. I'd have to...

Thought I'd post an account of our official introduction to expediting. Picked up our truck in Columbus OH on Jan 28th and headed for Green OH where we would be doing our orientation for FedEx CC. I misremembered the exit for the motel, and wound up getting off one exit farther down the road...

Well, we picked up our truck on Friday and drove it from Columbus to Uniontown OH to get settled in and get ready for orientation for FedEx Custom Critical. Picked up a little over an inch of snow on us Saturday night. Glad we're staying in a motel for now, but did enjoy the novelty of walking...

We're at FedEx CC headquarters for orientation this week, and just today they showed us a film of a CC van being operated unsafely. This film was provided by one of those safety observation companies which had, ironically, been out observing someone else's driver when they were amazed to see...

I requested the shore power option on the ProHeat generator, and there was a delay in getting it delivered from Canada to install. Now the truck is getting the Carrier unit data system calibrated and tested, a process that takes approximately 40 hours (4 ten hour days). After that, final...

Well, we were scheduled to leave in the morning (Wed, 1/19) to drive to Ohio and pick up our truck on Friday so that we could go to orientation at FedEx on Monday. Were, that is, until I got a call from my dealer yesterday telling me that there was no way the truck was going to be ready on...

In one of my former life-segments I was a pastor. In one town where I served (just off of I-10 at the TX/NM border), the local churches created a community fund for helping these beggers. One day a fellow came in to the church, explaining how he and his family were on their way to his mother's...

I have to say after trying to reach my recruiter, their voicemail isn't the most caller friendly thing I've ever dealt with. Having been in telecom and selling and setting up a goodly number of VM's over the years, I'd say it's probably poorly programmed and not given adequate thought by those...

Weave, is your Columbia set up with a factory sleeper or do you have a custom sleeper unit? If custom, what specs and who did the work for you? I'm already planning my second truck, and I haven't even picked up my first yet ('01 FL Century w/ autoshift and factory condo).

I live in the Orlando area and will be going out on the road soon for FedEx Custom Critical. Since I began looking into the expedite industry a little over a year ago, I've been keeping an eye peeled for expedite trucks on the roads around Central Florida. I've seen several FedEx CC's. I've...

Jay Mott down here in Orlando was experimenting with building expediter trucks out of Pete 387's, but has pretty much given it up. He had difficulty getting Peterbilt to build extended chassis for him, then when they agreed to that they raised the price significantly. They didn't want to make...

A friend of mine had some damage to the front end of his Classic XL when the truck ahead of him at an intersection rolled backwards into him. (I just looked at the pictures again, and dang if the truck that rolled back into him doesn't have a CRST sign of some sort on the back end.) As I...

>I'm not sure if we're talking about the same product or not. >CoPilot Truck (CoPilot Live?), shows truck stops on it's >maps along with numerous other points of interest like >hospitals, resturants, etc. Delorme does too. CoPilot Truck and CoPilot Live appear to be two different packages...

With a van rather than a Class C or D straight truck, the finances might work out well enough to let the o/o pay on that basis. Despite all the recommendations that newbies drive for someone else for awhile as they learn, the income wouldn't work out for us. Whether it was 60% and I pay fuel...

Well, I kept hearing from a lot of people that White Glove was the best place to be for making good money, but at least 6 months experience etc was needed. I splurged the cost of a plane ticket to go from Orlando to Detroit in August to visit the Expediters Expo, and had a chance to talk to a...

As I've been watching ads on TV for DHL as they roll out their package service to compete against FedEx and UPS, I've wondered if they are going to do expedite also. However, since the wife and I have just recently received our Letter of Intent from FECC White Glove, I'm sure we'll stay there...