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OVM, I think you need to actually spend time out of the van and into the real world. There is some things we are not, like we are not partners and we are not commodities, but we are the capacity the company needs to be in business and provide the key service to a customer. Many companies...

You ever seen the movie The Fifth Element? Most likely one of the best movies Bruce Willis ever did but Chris Tucker was in it as Ruby Rhod and every time I heard rickrod, the image of Tucker dressed up in the movie came into my mind

Why? Because it is in their best interest to do so. Unless it is a flat rate contract, the company has to be the one who has to look at the contractor as a service provider, not a partner. The contractor is the more important item in the chain, not the company. Work can come from any number of...

NO actually it isn't even Obama's or Bush's fault, It starts with the UAW and the company on labor issues. Seeing the Kia plant and another fully automated plant recently shows me we can get rid of this labor problem and become a manufacturing center again. It is also the company's fault for...

Now see you are thinking that there is a need to step out of the business shoes and into the company's shoes. Take Laredo for example, the 4 cents could mean that the driver is willing to sit for an extra day but on the other hand it may be to offset the cost of higher DH to say Dallas to...

NOT how it worked. The tax payer got ****ed in the deal. Here is the problem.... The loan was made with the sell that the US tax payer, who is on the hook for 15% more than the loan amount by the way, was to make money on the stock sale and 'get paid back'. The IPO was rushed through, like...

Yes no fluff - live with it.

Actually it shows the problem I think it prevelent in the industry, a need to make X amount of money on every load. It has nothing to do with where it ends up at, that is the contractor's problem, but rather the 4 cents difference to move the truck, capture the revenue is more of an issue. By...

Well maybe you are right but read some of the other stuff, get passed the personal things and like others who are like him, there is a lot of info there. I think one of the problems can be he, like others don't put the fluff of the successful expediter into the posts which a lot of people...

What info can you offer? I mean it is great to hear from the other side of the fence but every company is different and most don't let the contractor in. 35 trucks is a small company, tier I means little to most of us here.

Why use it to buy a Brrr unit, just get one of them great sprinter things.

Normally I would be messing around with this subject but to your disappointment, it is very very true. Starting Monday, I got a 'request' to haul my butt down to some other midwest state to pick up 1000lbs for $3.75 a mile. During my trip to the pickup, I got 4 offers. AND Monday on my way...

Muttly, There is a lot more to it than what you are saying. There is a political end of things for starters and an Alumni issue on the other end. Most of what I understood the decision was not about the performance of the person as coach but his performance as a representative of U of the M...

It is called quantitative easing part II. The idea behind it is to ... well this is a simple explanation QE2 (The Stimulus Plan, Not the Cruise Ship) OH the refunding thing in the first part is a bunch of crap. The real problem is that it drives up the debt, it lowers the value of the...

What was left out of the report was a simple sentence - the federal oversight of the safety of these rigs were nonexistent due to the problems with the bureaucracy of the departments that oversee the industry.

Nope, you got to guess. Juju, you are the biggest instigator over this food thing, you now have me thinking about planting veggies. :p

I thought it was Bachman who invited that SC guy??

So what was all of that FDA stuff done over a 100 years ago about? I think it has to be a joke, the feds can't do much more than screw it all up.

AND we are going to sink like the Titanic.

Out of all the press people, Gibbs is going to be remembered as the expert on the deflection.