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Sitting where there are a lot of other people might cure the loneliness, but you'll also sit there longer than you will if you are in a lonely place with no other expediters around.

Had a couple on board leaving home last night. Dropped one in Albany a couple hours ago and the other one doesn't have to be in Boston until tomorrow morning, but I'm going to try to deliver it this afternoon. I'm pulled off at a gas station for the moment hoping they get the highway a little...

Yep, and if you all of a sudden just let the Mexican trucks keep rolling to wherever the freight is going instead of dropping it at the border, what will that do to those border towns? No freight to speak of in or out of Laredo, El Paso, or Nogales. I'm avoiding those areas for now anyway, or...

If I have any say in matters, Vegas will see you GOING shortly.

I'm back home now taking a couple days off after 6 weeks out. I'm not used to being out that long. It tooke me a couple hours to dig my van out today just to run some errands. I'm sick of snow.

They just don't like yellow vans.

It's not the money. It's that lousy mom and pop outfit he drives for that they don't like. :)

All of those things affect your bottom line.

It's funny how when you consistently provide good service and people know that, you're able to get better rates, sometimes even getting a load over a lower bidder. That's happened a few times lately.

Service does still count though. Just yesterday I had a partner offer me a load when there was another carrier with a van much closer to the shipper than I was. I have hauled loads for this partner before and have always given good service. They know what they're getting from me and it does...

A lot of people are missing the point here because of thinking like a contractor. The point isn't whether or not this is a good rate for a driver to get to haul something, but that if they're telling the truth, this is all they charged the shipper. If shippers are being charged $1.74 a mile...

Sell service, not price. In the long run, providing good service will go farther than always being the cheapest bidder.

As far as being glued to your computer, all you need is a couple other people who can have access to the same boards and can watch things for you when you need to sleep or drive. That's what I do and it works out pretty well for the most part.

I don't care for staying in that neck of the woods. Too many...um...reptilian Americans hanging around.

But when you're sitting in a saturated area with little chance of getting something out with a decent rate, booking something a little farther out isn't all bad. Best case is the load goes. Worst case is you just relocated away from the herd and got the dry run money to pay for the relocation...

I did book it for more than a driver's rate and I will be getting something, but the person I will need to talk to isn't in on the weekend.

With efax your document is converted to their format and loaded to a server and then faxed from there. At the receiving end it just goes straight to their fax machine and prints like any other incoming fax, but it will have a cover sheet with your name and fax number on it. A small multi...

Any carrier should support their own trucks first. It's just kind of frustrating if you take a brokered load because supposedly they didn't have one of their own trucks and then it gets taken back. It's happened before from different carriers, so it's nothing new, but it's still frustrating...

Which is the way it should be. A partner carrier is just that, another carrier, and they should get carrier's rates, or at least something more than a driver's rate. I guess a rate agreement is nothing more, an agreement that "if" you haul the load you will be paid X amount, not any kind of...

Yesterday I booked a pretty nice load from another carrier that I won't name. The load was over 1000 miles and I got a decent enough rate on it, so I proceeded to dh 240 miles to get into position to pick it up. Now I wake up this morning to a message that the load has cancelled, so I called...