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There's a warning there for a lot of us. How often have you pulled up in front of some quick shop to run in and get a drink or take a pee and you figure you'll just leave it running because you're only going to be in there a minute or two? I see people do this with cars a lot and I always...

Our CEO just spent over three years on the road in a Sprinter. I'd venture that quite a few heads of expediting companies have spent significant amounts of time on the road.

For a company our size losing a good partner agreement wouldn't be worth it and most of the drivers understand this. On the other side though, if a company were to contact me simply because one of our trucks was there but nobody from our company did any active solicitation, it would be hard to...

Yep. Have to be careful there. The safe thing is if your company uses delivery receipts you just have one signed by the consignee and they usually keep a copy. This is pretty standard industry wide and as long as the driver doesn't actively solicit you're fine. If the consignee calls the...

The version I was taught in high school is nothing like what they speak around there.

If you're looking for a slower pace, right now seems to be the time, especially if you have a van.

1. It's a weekend. 2. You made a killing on the inbound load and can afford to wait a day or two. 3. You're in a nice vacation spot and decide to take a day or two off for some r & r. 4. You really are in the best freight area within a 500 mile radius and things are just a bit slow...

And driving rates down even more. Just what we need.

Update on my last post. These days I don't think it matters much where you live with most carriers. A few might have more of a customer base in certain areas, but there's freight in most parts of the country and most carriers have access to it. Living in certain states might make it easier...

No. We have people all over.

We have a few former military drivers. Some of the best drivers a company could ask for.

I charge a fee for stupid questions asked by a contractor on odd numbered Tuesdays during a full moon. The fee is payable to me in either cash or steak.

Which is what I've been saying all along, but you'd be surprised the people who just don't get it.

But back to my original question. Does a carrier bidding an all inclusive rate have an obligation to separate the pay to the driver into different categories and label some as FSC?

I had a broker do that with me a few months ago. I thought it was pretty funny, but I can't say that I blame them that much if they've had a bad experience in the past. I also have a driver who makes a regular habit out of being in traffic jams or having flat tires. By my reckoning, every...

If there's excessive deadhead on the load, we just bid higher to try to cover it, so a lot of times the driver will get a little extra to help with deadhead, but there's nothing written in stone regarding a set amount for a certain amount of deadhead. I try to get a good rate on the loaded...

It's a two way street. Carriers should be up front about things, but drivers also need to be. If you tell a dispatcher you're in such and such location and the dispatcher books you a load that you have time to get to, while in reality you're actually 50 miles farther out and then you keep...

That's how I've been operating ever since I started taking on other drivers. I pay attention as best I can to what companies are paying as a line haul+ FSC and I keep our driver pay competitive with those amounts. Since I was on the road for the last couple years and trying to manage other...

Today started out slow and then we booked a lot of miles in the afternoon. Might end up with a pretty good week, more than I expected with the number of units out of service.

That's a good point, but what really is the difference between an owner/operator getting .75 + .15 fsc from one company or getting .90 all included from another?