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In another thread ("Is It Happening Again?" now locked), raceman makes an excellent point; namely, that success for one person can be completely different from success for another. In other words, success is what YOU define it to be. Success is a result. It's what happens when YOU achieve the...

One of the best places to research expediting is the Mid America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY. This year it's scheduled for March 31 to April 2. It includes a huge expediting section where all the major carriers exhibit, as do most industry vendors. You can see numerous expediting trucks on...

When researching the industry before we started expediting, Diane and I learned of a time when a lot of people got hurt real bad because fleet sizes had become too large. When the business slowed, there were way more trucks than freight to haul and a lot of folks failed. I learned today that...

Good Driver/Fleet Owner communications can do much to promote successful business relationships between the two. What questions would fleet owners be wise to ask drivers? And what questions would drivers be wise to ask fleet owners?

On May 4, 2004 I wondered aloud how long it might be before we started seeing class 8 hybrid trucks on the road. That inquiry was prompted by an EO news article about some expermintal hybrid package trucks FedEx was then putting on the road. The news article is at...

Lawrence asked me today to write a piece for the next issue of Expedite Now! entitled, "Ten Things You Should Know About Expediting." The magazine is distributed free at truck stops. The target audience is truck drivers and non-truck drivers that are considering expediting as a career option...

A frequent question asked by folks researching the expediting industry is "How do you get your CDL?" I invite licensed expediters - new and old - to to help our expediter wannabee friends by sharing your story here. Ours is below. -------------------------------- My wife and me had no truck...

Granted, in today's market the term "low-cost fuel" is a stretch, but the fact remains that some fuel outlets are less expensive than others. For those that don't know about it, here's a link that can be helpful in reducing your fuel costs. We (wife and me, team drivers) use it often when...

There is a nice safety article on EO regarding deer. Deer whistles are mentioned and recommended in the article. I've wondered about them ever since I first learned of them a year ago. Do they work?

The financial press is picking up a story about a lifestyle survey of recent retirees Putnam Investments commissioned. It's not pretty. Expediter newbies and wannabees are well-positioned to avoid the regrets many of today's new retirees have. They are making a career change into something...

Excerpt from a story published on the Wired web site. Full story at: http://www.wired.com/news/roadtrip/riverroad/0,2704,65184,00.html In 1781, or so the story goes, a packing case containing the body of a saint who'd been buried in the Denfert-Rochereau catacombs of Paris was sent to a...

If you have not already done so, computer USB flash memory sticks may be worth your time to consider. My wife and I just started using them and are glad we did. They are about the size of a key chain ornament and can hold up to 1 Gig of data. Smaller, less expensive sizes are available. You...

This is a long post (3-4 pages printed) and probably of interest only to a few folks. It may not be worth your time to read. It explains an idea I have for an organization that would help drivers find good fleet owners and fleet owners find good drivers. It's just an idea. I have no plans to...

I see EO has an article about FAST: http://www.expeditersonline.com/artman/publish/article_001699.html I'd love to hear other driver experiences on this. As one that sits in the slow line, sometimes for hours, waiting to cross the U.S./Canada border, and watches with envy other trucks whiz...

It just now hit me that the Terry and Rene I see posting here are the same folks my wife and I met at the 2003 Mid America Trucking Show. At the time, we were researching a career change into trucking and had not yet heard about expediting. We stumbled upon the Freightliner of Knoxville exhibit...

My wife and I are buying a new truck that we need to equip with ratchet straps, load bars, furniture pads, dollies, etc. The equipment we use now belongs to the fleet owner we drive for and will go with the truck when we turn it in. Where do you go to buy your equipment? Any tips would be...

From a report recently issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "A total of 1.4 million injuries and illnesses in private industry required recuperation beyond the day of the incident in 2002...." Truck drivers and nursing aides were the professions with the greatest number of such injuries...

On May 21, 2003, the EO News section included a story about FedEx adding hybrid electric diesel trucks to its medium-duty FedEx Express fleet. This is a huge development that will prompt additional industry interest and new research and develoment dollars. It makes me wonder how long it will be...

As we (husband/wife team) prepare to begin as D-unit drivers for a fleet owner, we need to create our business entity for this endeavor. We've read extensively about the various business forms (sole proprietorship, partnership, C corporation, S corporation, limited liability company, limited...

As we prepare to begin as team drivers, we're looking at companies to drive for. The current EO news page profiles Con-Way NOW. We’ve talked to drivers who are happy with Con-Way and I don’t mean to take anything away from them at all. But In an industry where seemingly everyone tells you to be...