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I do not get your meaning. What/who are drivers "at the bottom line?"

I'm not going by driver reports alone. My belief that business is up across the board is based partly on company reports from two competing carriers about how their fleets are doing company wide. These carriers have few reefer trucks in their fleet. I forgot to mention that in my post above...

This fits with what a dealer told me a few days ago. Lenders who are willing to finance expediter trucks are requiring higher down payments because expediters are more difficult to move if they are reposessed. It's easy to get rid of a tractor. The market for expediter straight trucks is...

Doing a quick Extranet check, and comparing two similar in-service time periods year over year: April 1, 2010 - May 21, 2010: Runs: 22 Pay per load mile: $2.67 Gross revenue (including fuel surcharge): $X April 1, 2011 - May 21, 2011: Runs: 21 Pay per loaded mile: $2.47 Gross revenue...

"We can only offer what the customer calls in" is the explanation I received from some of the company people I talked to when researching this. Only one person at the company let on why the customers are calling for company-owned trailers. The reason is pricing incentives. Pricing incentives...

Talking with a Landstar Express America team today, they have been as busy as they want to be. In their dry box straight truck, their May gross revenue month to date exceeded ours (reefer straight truck). Their revenue per mile figure for all miles (loaded, deadhead, personal, whatever) is about...

We drove past that truck after the fire was out. If there were any investigators there, we did not see them. It did not appear to be the kind of a scene where a fatality occured.

In an F5 tornado, all bets are off. Note that the article talked about F1 and F2. One problem with a tornado is that it does not reveal its category while approaching or passing through.

Mention is made that cars generally don't flip in a tornado but trucks would be more likely to, would they not? Less aerodynamic. Greater surface area high off the ground for the wind to act on.

Methinks a troll is among us.

You would not have to argue much as I would tend to agree, however because it is so much easier to wander unaware into expediting with a van than with a more costly truck that is more likely to be inspected and with which log books are required, the phenomenon is more pronounce in the van arena...

That's a difficult question to answer. I have picked up countless, business-useful tips and tricks from a wide variety of Open Forum members, including those who may have only a few posts to their credit.

In other words, people who have not yet learned enough about trucking to know that GPS is an optional accessory with built-in limitations not a necessity. You can market a program that trucker wannabees do not need as long as your targets do not know they do not need it. Seems predatory to me.

As regular readers know, I know little about cargo van/Sprinter expeiters. I am intrigued by your comment, though. Are you including Sprinters when you refer to vans?

Diane and I are with you on that. We have been talking with other carriers and none on our short list requires uniforms. If we moved to either one, we would quickly brand ourselves with that carrier by creating a uniform of some sort. We would find out where the office people get their company...

Pestilence: : something that is destructive or pernicious As in the excessive number of low quality van drivers and equipment that OVM first referenced. As in the type that would be culled from the herd, to use OVM's metaphor.

But are not CV runners like rabbits? You can kill off a bunch but it only takes a cycle or two to restore the pestilence. With entry barriers so low, what else would expect but to see a continuious flow of unqualified and unprepared people and vehicles from whatever field they left into the...

I spoke last week with an embittered (embittered!) fleet owner who was furious that we are being made to pay $16 a week for these data loggers when few if any of the promised beneifts come our way. We are doing everything now that we did before. He was also furious that his trucks were being...

It did not go without notice that calibrations changed to annual from semi-annual when FDCC started paying for the calibrations.

How do you mean exactly? Where do you see a slide?