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I cannot and will not speak for other people who buy high-priced trucks. I can only speak for Diane and me. As things are today at FedEx Custom Critical, we would not build the truck we built in 2006 because today we are seing rates decline as well as the volume of the lucrative freight we...

If you are willing to accept $10 an hour to steer a wheel, I feel sorry for you.

Where do you get 21 hours? Regardless, we value our time and equipment too much to put cheap miles on the truck. We are not in the business to run at breakeven rates and thereby donate our time and equipment to shippers and our carrier so they can make money while we make little or none. We...

Laughing to tears here! Thanks for the lift.

A husband/wife team who was recently at FedEx for TVAL training told us they saw 25 new red FDCC logo reefer trailers in the parking lot, being set up for TVAL work. If you want to know where FDCC TVAL freight is going, you need look no further than the parking lot in Green. You can further...

No. Of course not everything is really really really bad. We have our health. We are in a paid for truck. We have money in the bank and better opportunities ahead. Our complaint is that our revenue is declining because freight that percentage-paid trucks used to haul is now being...

May the jack weed be soaked and a match be found.

Wow! It has never occurred to me to do anything other than place the nozzle in the tank before I flip the lever that starts the fuel flow. I guess it would save a step by starting the fuel flow before you put the nozzle in the tank. Just never thought of doing it any other way.

I don't know what a nozzle bomb is but it sucks that Jen got doused like she did.

Neither do I. Diane and I just spent a weekend at the Petro truck stop in Oak Grove, MO. Events included breakfast with two other expediting teams and a long chat after, and a long chat in the laundry room with an expediter fleet owner. Add to that the phone conversations we had and even the...

For Diane and me, the perfect time in expediting was from August, 2003, when we entered the business through the end of 2008. After 2008, the negative effects of the Great Recession began to be felt in our truck, and as time progressed. the negative effects of FedEx Freight's takeover of FedEx...

It is truely remarkable how many truckers never figure that out.

OK. So, if you wish, we can talk about the different iterations of TVAL as it developed at FedEx Custom Critical. That is only tangential to the point I was making when I said that Diane and I prospered without TVAL freight before and can do so again. My point had to do more with our personal...

The TVAL I am talking about is the specific service our carrier began offering after we started with the company and that was prompted by specific regulatory changes introduced by the FDA. There may well have been four-probe equipment in trucks before Diane and I started with FedEx but that is...

I am hearing this theme from almost every contractor I talk to who is disappointed (sad, mad, insert other emotions here) with FDCC's change of dirction. While I do not disagree one bit, I also try to stay focused on the task at hand, which is Diane's and my career. It does not matter if FDCC...

They want teams in those flat rate tractors, not solos. Much of the TVAL freight has security protocols attached and requires a team in the truck.

FDCC is buying (not leasing) 53' reefer trailers and equipping them to haul TVAL freight. Last I heard from people in the office who know, they are building a TVAL company-owned trailer fleet of 40 trailers. These trailers are being pulled by contractor-owned tractors. Those contractors are paid...

I have seen it FDCC and FCC. FDCC has been seen written on some of the freight we haul since Diane and I were new in the business. That's where I picked it up. FCC is used by some in the office. I prefer FDCC so as not to confuse the acronym with the FCC government agency.

True enough, but you should also recall that there was no such thing as TVAL freight when Diane and I entered the business as drivers of fleet-owner straight trucks. We prospered without it before and can again. It's not quite like buying equipment to haul wind generator blades. The only thing...

I'll pass, Brisco. Believing you to be an internet troll, I am putting you on ignore.