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For those of you that do not get the weekly email here is a heads up: No Longer Accepting Vehicle Inspections from Speedco Please note that we can no longer accept vehicle inspections that have been completed by Speedco. This is effective immediately. We are making this change because...

The safety van will be located in the FedEx Custom Critical booth at MATS and will have a supply of BOL’s, Trip Pak Envelopes and Log Books available if you need to restock. There will also be a supply of short sleeve apparel shirts for purchase.

Do not forget today 1/27/10 will be the conference calls. You can get the phone number and the call id from the Extra net or the weekly email: What will be covered on the call? For this edition, Jason will discuss three main topics. Although...

Lets figure out what time is best to get the Safety Messages

Would we prefer morning or afternoons?

We were pleasantly surprised lately when we fueled at a Wilco and Sapp Brothers at the discount we received. Both places had substantial discounts when we looked on line at the price we actually paid. I do not know how you could call ahead to check the discounted cost of fuel so I will...

Fleet Conference Calls Wednesday May 13th. Time 9 - 9:30am 10 - 10:30 11 - 11:30 1 - 1:30pm 2 - 2:30 Contractors will be asked to give name and unit number.

I keep a spreadsheet entry on every load we pickup and the pay. On my spreadsheet I keep track of the date picked up, what type of load, pickup city and delivery, dhpl, dhpu, and run miles with total pay. If I get an advance on the run I also keep track of that. After we get our settlement...

OOIDA offers Pre-Pass to their members at $13.50 a month and it is very easy to change over with youe members number. Just call into Pre Pass and let them know. Little bit of savings from the 14.50 we just changed to since we no longer have the settlement deduction.

Today we fueled at the TA on the west side of Saint Louis and paid $1.90 a gallon. I never thought we would see the day we would pay less then $2.00 a gallon. Good fuel mileage + good discounts + good fsc Make you SMILE

We have a bunch of those free magnets to hand out to customers that we give away all year. After Thanksgiving though we buy hard candy or this year I could not find the hard candy so turned to candy canes to hand out. I get cellophane and make a small bag add the wrapped hard candy and then...

After reading Pelicn’s post on escort loads gone badly I thought I might bring up the other side. We have done very short escort loads to over 2000 mile escort loads and overall I would say they have gone pretty well. We have been lucky enough to do escort loads with friends and still be friends...

Former Owner Operator Terry O’Connell Hired in Safety Department Safety takes priority here at FedEx Custom Critical. Well-informed owner operators professionally representing themselves and FedEx Custom Critical in clean, safely operated trucks are vital to customer satisfaction and, thereby...

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Events Sunday, Aug. 24; 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. (Eastern time) FedEx Custom Critical headquarters (Green, Ohio) Cookout and Pride and Polish Hope Everyone anywhere close attends the cookout today! We delivered about 83 miles away on Friday and decided to...

We have never really fueled at the TA but now it is about our only fuel stop due to the HUGE discounts we are receiving. You can call ahead to the TA's using the 800 number, you then will give them the 4 digit number of the TA you are interested in and listen to the quotes given. We have...

Qualifications for the trip run from June 1st 2007 to May 31st 2008 On-Time Pickup and Delivery service 96% of the time At least 70% Availability At least 70% Load Acceptance No preventable accidents The finalists are determined by the 50 trucks who have taken the most runs during the contest...

I-Hop Restaurant Fort Worth Texas next to the Pilot I 35W Receive a 10% to 20% discount on your meal when wearing your uniform. Not sure why we get this but we do and I am not one to argue about a discount! Not a bad deal when you are waiting to go pick up your LG load!