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A good factoring company will take care of the billing and the follow up work. You just send them your paperwork and get paid.

Factoring is good when you're small because you get pretty good value for what you spend, but when you grow the cost is ridiculous. When we just had a couple cargo vans running, the factoring cost was probably less than what it would cost us to hire someone to do billing and payroll, but with...

You could look into something like Macropoint.

We set them up with auto alerts from Sylectus and a login for the track and trace feature on there. They're pretty good about checking that when they want a position update on a truck and they hardly ever call us for tracking. We don't run any of their non expedite freight, with the exception...

Six of one, half dozen of the other. Sylectus is really all of the above. It's a great software package if you're at the Pro level and if you're a small carrier just starting out it's a pretty good source for freight because it puts you in touch with a lot of companies you can partner with to...

When we were still fairly new and first got on there, I didn't really realize where a lot of the freight was coming from until we started getting hooked up with more non Alliance freight sources and started seeing the same loads posted that we were seeing elsewhere. It was a bit of an eye...

From our perspective, C.H. Robinson loads are pretty good for the main reason that they're not posted on Sylectus. You still have to bid on them, but we seem to be able to get a sensible rate from them compared to what we get from something posted on Sylectus.

That business model might make sense in the short term, but eventually the quality drivers are going to want a little more and you're going to have to pony up to keep the good drivers. You keep running with the bottom of the barrel drivers and your company reputation will suffer or you'll have...

It's more than one carrier that does that by the way. I can't tell how many times I've been bidding a GM load and someone is calling me to offer us the same load because we have a truck posted in that area. I always quote them the same amount I'm bidding from the source, so they'll have to...

We've been doing their loads for a while now, but like Blizzard said, it takes a while to track down the office that has the expedites. Once you get in with that office, the freight is really decent and doesn't pay that bad either. We got approved with them four years ago but didn't get in...

I mis read the whole thing. There was something in there about HOS for CMV carrying passengers. They went to 10 hours on with 8 off. I didn't notice the part about passengers.

When I was on the road I never needed a restart and I never maxed out my hours either, but that's because I focused on running short loads on the east coast and getting top dollar on those loads. I'd rather do a 100 mile load for $600 than a 300 mile load for the same money.

I'll believe there's a shortage when drivers start making more.

You're not missing anything, but Vince is right as well. Think about it. One allowed per 7 day period. Once you take one, you have to wait 7 days to take another. Now if you haven't taken one for a while, say you're coming off an extended off duty period like one of our drivers who took a...

On the phone with FMCSA to get a clarification......still on hold. This could be a while.

We're already encouraging our solos to find co-drivers. It's going to hit them hardest. And of course this is going to lead to a lot of people fudging log books something fierce. Do a local run and end up back where you started and that page magically disappears. We don't encourage this sort...

Ok, I'm reading this whole thing trying to get a handle on the kind of runs we'll be able to book our solo trucks on once this goes into effect. Before you had 11 hours to deal with and now you have 10. So for a load that has to run straight through, that's pretty easy to figure out; you lose...

Carren and I ran team in a straight for a summer and never did a restart. We ran in areas that nobody else wanted to and made a huge rate per mile. One day we only did about 50 miles and grossed $1100.

Yep. Best thing to do is just look up the MSDS for whatever UN number is in question. We always do that when we see loads listed with a UN number because we don't have any hazmat certified drivers, so we won't haul anything that requires placards.

I can always tell how slow van freight is by the number of van owners I have calling and hitting the recruiting extension. I've had 6 this week, and I've told them all the same thing. Get a straight truck.