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well your comment clearly reflects your ignorance of basic business concepts. Am i driving every mile? am i making money for both myself and the truck while someone else is driving? its all about asset utilization. Do you understand ther concept of reducing fixed costs by maximizing asset...

Cherry picking you got to be kidding me. your right some times my co driver does well and i want him to. but some weeks he doesnt do as well. we have taken cheap freight for fed ex. but the problem with taking the cheap loads is you get no benifit from it at all! it would be one thing if you...

WELL i guess i better respond to several misconceptions that some people have concerning my jumping around and other issues. First and formost i am not a jumper.... I only did expedite for two companies, CTX and FedEx CC. I only left CTX because as we are all aware, auto freight with the...

RE: Top 5 things to make money with any carrier another party organ heard from.... what that come right out of the manual or off the website? You guys take yourselves pretty seriously for truck drivers. Got a big break today... I latched on to a expedite dedicated route.....FOR DOMINO'S...

RE: Top 5 things you can do to make money with FED hey its funny in a semi serious sort of way... everyone is sick of sitting.... no money to be made that way... ps. i will move it to the loading dock when you guys move all those lame quotes you attach on the bottom of your responses...

RE: Top 5 things you can do to make money with FED Somebody got it...good job!! all you other people take yourselves much to seriously... come on we all know its a tough time in the industry whoever you work for you gotta laugh or it will get to ya.

1. Get a part-time job at Pilot. 2. Buy a can of aluminium polish so you can go truck to truck. 3. Park by the Plasma Center. 4. lay over at the mall with a red bucket and bell. 5. buy a taxi sign for the top of your truck, and park near airport.

First let me say if you feel i was flaming them you are incorrect i stated facts to support my (and i mean my!) perspective. i feel that this thread is indicative of where Fed Ex is going. All about booking the loads and getting the freight regardless of how the well the owner operators are...

Well i can tell you that as an ordinary guy with an ordinary truck that FED EX CC for me is a joke. 3 weeks with them so far and i have made squat. Sit Sit Sit Crap run offer Crap run offer sit sit sit medieocre run offer, desperation forces acceptance. Now as a solo i know i have to accept...

got the good GPS. with truck routing! I dont like accepting responsibility for routing hazmat loads let the carrier take the risks associated with routing plan. All I want is some street names in ( ) next to the route numbers. I dont think thats to much to ask.

thought i would update you all with the latest info on my saga as a new O/O. If you will recall i started with CTX on August 1, 2007. I ran about 7000 miles with them with ample sit time (stuck in Iowa and St louis total of 5 days). I really liked CTX as they really dont bother the driver at...

Wanted to know if any of you are putting in 12 oz of vegetable oil per tank to combat the poor lubricating qualities of low sulfer fuel for older engines? Some old timers i talked to swear by it so i thought i would ask.

just wanted to ask what is a fair and equitable split if i wanted to add a co-driver. I want to be fair not rip someone off, with me paying all expenses. Also as a side note looking for a fellow cranky old ##### to laugh at the world from behind the wheel.:)

I wanted to get some feedback on my first long week expediting After running all the numbers for the last 8 days i got 2100 loaded miles 110 paid deadhead miles and 2450 odometer miles. The trips did not exceed 400 miles and had Chicago 3 times (ugg!) I grossed 2660.00 with FS and bought about...

Yes its a volvo.... empty 12,200 on the front axle with full tanks. I made it to my drop off 90 miles outside of Chicago. Boy i dont care when you come through chicago traffic blows. I was really pleased how well my truck handled the weight, pulls like a monster! that cummins n-14's 500...

This is a 24ft strait truck. the way i looked at it based on the placement of the axles is that if i went with filling the box from front to back i would have 13,200 lbs forward of the centerline of the axles and 6600 lbs rearward. i am guessing that if i figure 1/2 of the load before the axle...

Its about 16 ft from front of box to center of tandums with another 8 ft after that 24ft total box length

its about 16 ft from back of cab to centerline of tandums

Signed on Monday with CTX rolling on Thursday. Had to take two loads for the team right off the bat, i guess to show I am a team player. Crappy run from Brighton MI to Grand Rapids MI, then Grand Rapids MI to Howell MI. Picked up a little on Friday with a high dollar run from Flint to Lansing...

After just buying my first truck after a lot of investigation I have to say look hard at the slightly used units especially the class 8 units. Let someone else take that that first off the lot hit. Balance your revenue stream with the costs of the unit. Dont drive for the truck let it drive...