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Reports of generator (APU) issues regularly surrace here. Clocking our 5,000th trouble-free hour on our generator got me to thinking that it might be nice to hear some generator success stories. They would be useful to people considering a generator purchase. Our Onan Quiet Diesel 7500...

Lower fuel prices are a bright spot and welcome good news in my view. While the fuel surcharge will drop with the price, so will our operating expenses. In theory, at least, lower costs should make it easier for shippers to ship goods. With cold weather coming, generator use will increase...

I suspect the Trip Pak business will be sold off as a unit to another company that will run it. This would be an opportunity for FedEx Custom Critical, a subsidiary of FedEx Freight, which is a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation to shop around for someone that provides FedEx-like services for...

Here is more detail from the CNN story about DHL: "DHL's 9,500 job cuts are on top of 5,400 job reductions announced earlier this year. After these layoffs, between 3,000 and 4,000 employees will remain at DHL's U.S. operations, the company said. "The company also said it was shutting down...

Contrast this with an automotive pickup we did once at a Toyota plant (we do very little automotive freight). We were in and out in no time and treated well by dock personnel. When I commented on the cleanliness of the plant, the non-union worker spoke of his happiness as an employee and told me...

Maybe that is how this issue will eventually be resolved in the future; the contractor/employee question will be answered by eliminating individual routes and requiring contractors to purchase and operate multiple routes. When someone is an employing or contracting with drivers to run multiple...

The lawsuits and IRS actions in the ongoing debate over the status of FedEx Ground drivers (are they contractors or employees?) is of some interest to expediters, as it has to do with independent contractor status, which most expediters are (or may not be, depending on one's point of view). The...

DHL's future in the U.S. is very much in question. See article

It is very interesting and encouraging to hear that your FedEx Ground business is showing growth. To what do you attribute the increase?

10-4 As I said, the above was not offered specifically with you in mind, but with others too. Best of luck to you, and all of us in dealing with whatever lies ahead.

You can relax. It was a joke.

Thank you for the kind words about Expedite NOW. I woke up this morning thinking about what you wrote and offer the following, not to be harsh, but to present more to think about. It is offered it not with you specifically in mind but also others who, like you, may be experiencing a...

There is a truck frame and axle place next to Fyda Freightliner in Columbus, Ohio that does a fair amount of lift-axle work on trucks of all kinds, including expediters. I don't recall the company name. Fyda people can tell you. They may have or know where to find used lift axles.

If you are a good employee, you keep your mouth shut so you don't lose your job. If you are an independent contractor, it is because you weren't a good employee.

You can tell your drivers what they probably already know. The financial crisis and economic slowdown (recession) is reducing the amount of freight that is available to haul. You can't haul what they don't offer. If the freight isn't there, it isn't there. You would not be giving good news to...

Your are correct about going to the top of the board, but your question was about rewards and my answer is that non-financial rewards are irrelevant. If the freight don't pay, we don't play. You can't pay for groceries with less-than-75 rewards. They want cash at the grocery store checkout...

A whole bunch of Republicans with a closer and clearer view than you also evaluated George W. Bush. I'm talking about those that ran for state and federal public office in 2008. These are politically sophistocated people with the ability to judge one politician's performance and worth to...

I don't know well the compensation arrangements or rewards programs at Panther. At our carrier, Diane and I don't haul freight for rewards. We haul it for money. The good news is short runs that can be completed in a short time frame are often lucrative runs too, so they are easy to say yes to...

Do you buy fuel in Mount Vernon, Illinois? We have in the past but are not inclined to any more. The city has taxed us away. See article: More truckers plan to bypass Mount Vernon fuel stops