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Re: Are Any Expedited Carriers Concerned with keeping on Own/Op with current low rate A penny saved is a penny earned. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

Re: Are Any Expedited Carriers Concerned with keeping on Own/Op with current low rate That's one way of looking at it. I have to admit I'd probably be attracted to the lower miles higher rates, even knowing fixed costs go down with more miles, but that's just how I'm wired. I was talking more...

Re: Are Any Expedited Carriers Concerned with keeping on Own/Op with current low rate There is value in leasing at the right company but you cannot explain that to some owners they just don't get it. All they see is "100% of everything goes to me".

I think if you'll read the labels closely on most of these products you will find they still put MSG in them but they don't call it MSG anymore. And then they can make the false claim "no MSG". No rules or laws against that and of course officially MSG won't hurt you. Just googled a quick...

Re: Are Any Expedited Carriers Concerned with keeping on Own/Op with current low rate Maybe rates have something to do with it or the fact that percentage pay is more the norm in expediting? Tough way to make a living on flat rates anywhere which seems to be the norm for contractors doing...

I don't believe it. More like 30 minutes extra time to stink up some place other than the cab of their nasty truck.

I hate it when people try to draft too closely behind my TT trying to save their fuel and probably causing mine to burn more. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

If you shave a tire and happen to take that wheel off later better remount it exactly to the studs as it came off. Mark the stud ends and holes with a paint pen or something. That's if you have tru balance centering pins. If you don't have those any benefit will be lost as soon as the wheel...

There's no guesswork on percentage if you have a calculator. Seems like carriers moving to pay flat rates and trying to cover all of their freight (the "undesirable" and desirable) are re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic to hopefully offer their customers a solution to a capacity crunch...

Didn't know him but sounds like a good person. What a sad way to go. Could happen to any one of us at any time just another hardship on a trucking family.

So easy to get to Michigan from Kentucky. What a pampered princess. You can't reason with some of them and they don't see logic. They should go buy their own equipment if they want to pick and choose where to go then maybe they will see the challenges. Probably not.

This should be a good thread. Love a good cheeseburger every now and then. 5 guys, yeah they're corporate, but they're pretty good. Not burgers but enjoy Penn station if I can find a way to park near one. We have a restaurant in my hometown on the square that makes really good burgers not...

Yeah great post. This should put to rest all of the failures who think you have to be in some club at Landstar to get profitable freight, but it won't. Every successful BCO I've ever met will talk about networking. I network the same way off open loadboards and we've managed to establish quiet...

It's already there. Credit is cheap and easy, too easy. The hurdles ought to be higher to keep folks who have no real skin in the game IMO. $75,000 is nothing to some of these brokerages they could do that much business before lunch. Why does anyone doing business expect the government to...

I don't know what it costs I'm not a broker. I have heard of small trucking operations who used to broker out excess that threw in the towel on brokerage. Any unnecessary regulation that increases costs is a useless burden on everyone that decreases competition and concentrates more freight...

They were all for the knee jerk anti-competitive $75K broker bond. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

My mom used to put a little sugar in hers (not a cup) said my great, great grandmother used to do that. Her cornbread was good as was my grandmother's (no sugar). One of my favorite meals is hoe cakes. You folks know what hoe cakes are? Real southern food. You mix the cornbread batter then...

I hear they give away spam sammiches to hungry truck drivers. Great folks. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

See a lot of them around they do have nice equipment. Saw a lot of their daycabs in and out of a Ford supplier in Shelbyville, KY several months ago. T660 daycabs and newer trailers. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

That's insult to injury right there lol.