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I picked up a load this morning, 10AM, at Talladega (Harley Davidson Test Facility at the track there) for delivery to Milwaukee 7AM tomorrow. 800 miles. I just pulled off in Hopkinsville to get fuel. Gonna run over and go up I-57 instead of trying to deal with Louisville, Indy and then Gary and...

I second the Fantastic Fan. Don't skimp - get the one with the rain sensor. If it starts raining, the lid closes right up, and when it stops raining it opens back up again (all while you are sleep, in other words). It blows in or out, and has three speeds. To be able to get fresh air in the van...

Good info and great pics. Surprisingly, I never got any tin-foil hat comments about that van. hehe The comments I got most were when people, especially other E-350 owners, heard any of the doors slam. It was rock solid and closed with a heavy, muffled thud. The Sprinter, with all it's large...

Anyone else having a problem seeing the picture? It shows up fine for me. Here it is, directly linked, or copy and past this into your browser: img204.imageshack.us/img204/9972/img0065lo1.jpg http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/9972/img0065lo1.jpg The basket is riveted on, so you just need to...

Because you literally have no where to go if something happens, it's not a good idea to change lanes (or brake or accelerate or pass, for that matter) when on a bridge, even in good weather. Always leave yourself an out. On a bridge, the only out is down. As for driving in snow and ice, well...

I went as far as removing the passenger seat and have built a box, a desk, sort of thing, that sits where the seat used to be. Instead of a console, I guess. It's about 20x29 inches, flat top with a 1/2 inch lip all around. It's 28 inches high. There's a 7 inch high shelve/cubbyhole thing...

RE: FEDEX doing away with CC as just CC. CEO of F Thanks for the info that CC stands for Contract Coordinator and not Custom Critical.

Back when I had the Ford E-350 van, I had a crate loaded on there that was supposed to be 750 pounds. The van bottomed out. Whoa. I had them take it back off and weigh it, while I watched. Sure enough, scale said 750 pounds, straight up. Now, those Ford vans can actually handle a lot more weight...

RE: FEDEX doing away with CC as just CC. CEO of F Soon as I figer out what a cc is i'll groul

Greg, as for the first leg driver faxing paperwork and making sure everything was received, and then cleared... The bottom line problem is, there are too many drivers who will not (or cannot) go to Canada, but they will gladly pick up a load going to Canada, not mess with the paperwork (cause...

There's a mental picture I could have done without. :+

Find some wood. Knock on it. A lot. First time you're held up at the border, for like, 8 hours, because of something that was out of your control, you'll understand the frustrations that some people have.

Just found out the nominal fee isn't all that nominal. $2 a week. "You will also have a weekly deduction from your settlement for $2.00 which is the cost that QC charges us to host this program." I can't help but ask if QC isn't charging Panther a total of $2 per week for the service, since...

Instead of messing with white out, I just took the pages that require ID numbers and stuff and filled in the required information, and then took those sheets and made copies of them to use. Now, when I pull out the sheets, the only thing I need to fill in for each load is the load-specific...

I've got a set of these and they seems to hold up rather well. Nothing really heavy duty, though, just this and that around the van. If I did repair and maintenance work (around the engine) on the van myself, I'm confident they'd hold up.

Add a pushpin to the plot map for a cargo van at the Pilot in Birmingham.

"But, to sort of answer your question, depending on crossing volumes, somewhere between one and three on a given shift should be plenty. Most of the time they wouldn't be doing anything any differently than regular dispatch, merely monitoring the progress of the run. So a single person could...

Well, yeah, they're supposed to call with every load offer (if you are out of truck on pager), but it's a time consuming process when you have to do that for hundreds of loads a day. The seconds add up. They call, wait for the phone to ring between 2-6 times, if you answer it great, if not they...

"Three shifts 24-7-365. How many in a team would one require to do the job drivers are suppose to do?" Kind of a trick question, since those on the team wouldn't really be doing the job that the drivers are supposed to do. They would be assisting the driver with any problems as they come up, in...

>I have read several threads with turtle and teflon praising >each other about their great points made and their good >ideas. Really? Several? Threads? Really? Okaaay. >I don't understand (yet) why so few have so many problems in >this expediting business. Now the big problem is...