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Just trying to make extra money. My team has a run from Cleveland OH to Laredo TX on Monday. It's only one skid and I found another load that is a few skids going to Houston, TX. This load is paying a extra $700 dollars and can fit on my truck. I have a freezer wall in my truck that I can...

I would consider changing to 40/60 split fleet owner pays fuel. What costs you more the switch or having your truck sit in a parking lot unattended? It's bad enough that it's slow right now and if these guys don't play their cards right they are going to gross less then $600 a week. I could use...

FedEx Freight are company drivers. It says so on FedEx's website. Express,Freight and Trade Networks are employees of FedEx. Custom Critical,Ground/HD are contractors. Ground linehaul is also cotnractors.

I do the same thing but I pay the fuel and take the fuel supplement. Drivers apprciate it more, but you have to bite the bullet because they will deadhead a 100 or so miles to get home once in a while. I think owners set it up as drivers pay for fuel to prevent that. Often that makes them...

I bet your only regret is that you did not got in the truck sooner. I know you own your truck and all and your expenses are down. How is business now compared to five years ago?

While it's true on some weeks solos make more then teams from different households. Most of the time teams out earn solo drivers. Solo drivers spend more time in truck stops blowing money on expensive food and coffee. If you drive for a owner your job is more secure as a team because the owner...

15% is still a big number of loads. It can mean the difference in sitting an extra day for sure.

No I was not comparing FedEx with Panther Elite. I do have respect for FedEx because I have four FedEx Ground routes, but I did not want to have contracts with two FedEx divisions in case I had a fall out with one. Just an update they were south of St. Louis in Scott City where they dropped...

They ended up south of the St. Louis board by about 100 miles. It says that there are two loads a day going out. I hope business picks up soon because I am going to find myself with three empty trucks. They need to at least make $600 dollars a week or more. I am thinking about reorganizing and...

I heard a few of you mention that August is a slow month. When does the freight useally pick up in volume?

Thanks for the reply. It's the little things in this industry that are hard. For example. My team had a first out in Memphis TN with 3 loads a day and 7 trucks. I was debating having them dead to Nashville because I thought they would get loaded faster and the quality of the loads are better...

What percentage of loads do you miss out on if you don't have elite service qualifications and hazmat? My teams don't have either they are in D units and they are lucky to crack 3000 miles. My question is to other fleet owners who have white glove type straight trucks. In your experience how...

Try taking any time off in the Columbus Ohio area. Log yourself off and out of service and you still recieve phone calls at 3:30 am seeing if you will take a load. That happened to one of my team drivers after being out a month. Panther has called him three times in the last 24 hours about...

I've been trying to find a back load that will pay my team decently. They have been in Salt Lake City for over 24 hours now and there are no boards within 300 miles that have any loads going out. They have been number 3 on the board for the past 24 hours with two loads a day average going out...

Tolls suck in this area. GW bridge one way is like 12 dollars and then you have another 12 dollar bridge to get to Long Island. If thats not bad enough you have to pay again to get back across and then pay on the Jersey Turnpike. Panther even had my truck get on a Ferry to deliver to a small...

Some diesel has water in the fuel if you go to a station that sell low volumes of diesel fuel... Check the water seperator and add some Howes. You might just have to take it out and let the water run out. In extreme cases my buddies engine rotted out and the water in the fuel light never came...

Change the fuel filter lately? Try that my truck lost power on hills a few weeks ago and that was the problem.

As a fleet owner I like it when my drivers call me to ask me questions. I keep my phone on 24 hours a day. They will not empty move without me giving the okay. I enjoy being involved in the decision making process and helping when I can. I will call into Panther to get advice about an area...

As a fleet owner I will not hire drivers from the Boston/NE area. I find it hard to get decent freight. If they drive home for the weekend in Rhode Island it would be Tuesday or Wednesday before we would finally decide to move him out to the Meadow lands in New Jersey. Same with the Foxboro...

The way to get the prices to go down is for every trucker to buy a few barrels of crude and then dump it all on the same day. If investers in America and Europe dump there oil shares we could see the price go down. Investers keep driving the price of a barrell up because more and more are buying...