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I did not notice the FedEx Custom Critical statement, "We also offer access to health care coverage" in ads until yesterday when this thread prompted me to look. They have been running that statement for a while. The same language appears in a FedEx Custom Critical add in an older edition of...

I saw yesterday in Team Drivers and Women in Trucking (one of those little recruiting magazines that are distributed free at truck stops) a full page FedEx Custom Critical ad that reads in part: "Discounts available for fuel, tires, vehicles and more - all from being affiliated with FedEx...

Good words. And it only takes another load to get you moving again, which we got dispatched on today; a good one.

Not particuarly happy with this week. Did a long run from Tacoma, WA to San Antonio, TX at a marginal rate and we're still in San Antonio now. I'm not blaming our carrier or the freight. Load selection blunders put us where we are. Taking the load to San Antiono may have been a mistake. We...

I don't know these two but it's nice to hear of a team who is retired and doing well. It's nice to see that it can be done.

Working through the pile of trucking magazines that builds up at home when we are on the road, I came across today the Land Line Magazine article about the Trucking Solutions Group (Land Line, Aug/Sept, 2011). I have to tip my hat to the Caffees and others in this self-starting, self-appointed...

In the scenario you present, what price should the dealer set so as not to be deemed greedy and so as to not fleece the buyer? More to the point, who gets to decide that the dealer is in fact greedy and is fleecing the buyer? Injecting moral judgements into a financial transaction complicates...

I guess I see it as more straightforward. A dealer is in the business of selling trucks. When he or she gets a used truck to put up for sale on the lot, it has to be priced. The dealer can price it at $40,000 and it will sell, or the dealer can price it at $50,000 and it will sell. To me, it is...

I guess they will have to put time locks on the bags passed out at fast food drive-through windows.

Why do you hope the trucks rust on the lot? If you had a truck to sell, would you not act the same and charge as much as the market will bear? Say you bought a truck for $35,000 and because of market changes could now sell it for $50,000. Say also that you wanted to sell the truck? Would you...

I realize that much of this place-in-food-chain talk is made in jest but not everyone may get the joke. While there are many ways to run an expediting business, is it wise to sort people into classes in expediting and rank them one over another? It seems to me that puts people down more than it...

Land Line story here; the story includes a link to a related story in the Christian Science Monitor. Map below shows the Rio Grand Valley where these incidients are on the rise.

You express well the love for the road that many truckers and expediters feel. We wish you the best.

Yes, we owner-operators have to make a profit, but notice how the companies mentioned in the article did it: Cost cutting and improved freight selection. They did not have the option to improve freight selection during the Great Recession. They do now as truck capacity tightens. This is the...

I found a way to remove the FedEx logos from our old FedEx jackets and parkas. It is not easy and will require a lot of time and delicate work but it gets the job done. It's the kind of project that can be done while watching football. Saturate a small portion of the logo with a few drops of...

Without exception, every BCO Diane and I have talked to in person and by phone, before and after signing on with Landstar, has been welcoming and helpful. Impressed with that, and following their example, we have tried to be the same toward those who signed on after we did. We still have a great...

"It ain't like it used to be" is a common refrain among expediters who have many years under their belts, regardless of carrier and regardless of any carrier changes. I remember when Diane and I were brand new and how meaningless that statement was when we heard it. Our point of reference was...

Open Forum members are not alone in blasting the TWIC program. A U.S. Senate committee had harsh words for it too. The shot story, at least for now, is that TWIC is a failure. It has made the nation less secure at a cost of billions of dollars to private industry and over $100 each to truckers...

This may be difficult for non-Landstar expediters to believe. It amazed me when I saw it for the first time. When a group of Landstar BCOs (Landstar's name for contractors) gather together in a place where they can talk freely, few if any complaints are voiced against the company. A friend of...

Well said.