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I agree with Broompilot's belief that committment is essential to success. Any business endeavor is a heart and soul activity. As a business owner, fleet driver or owner operator, your committment will carry you through some rough spots that would turn less-committed people away. And making it...

Other than the flickering, does the radio work? Does it flicker the same all the time or does it flicker differently when the truck is in motion? If you adjust your dashboard light brightness, does that have any effect on the flicker? If you look closely in a darkened cab, do any other lights on...

A bit more on that tranny if you have not aready seen it. http://www.meritorhvs.com/Product.aspx?product_id=26#SP68

There is no fixed definition of "blog." The whole concept of blog and blogging is relatively new. Here one of many definitions. "Blog. Short for Web log. An online, public and informal journal that is frequently updated by it's author ("blogger"); conveys the author's comments, views and...

I don't know what carrier you run with so this may not apply. FedEx has their VRU (voice response unit) system, a computerized telephone system that offers information about runs out of an area and trucks in an area. It takes some time to get to know it, and the information is not as...

>>Your serious? > >Likely not, since it was posted in the newbies forum. :) Likely so, since the newbies forum is where aspiring expediters are most likely to see the responses. :)

You might want to take your question to Mike Landwehr, Sales Representative at VoMac Truck Sales in New Haven, IN (near Fort Wayne, intersection of U.S. 30 and I-465. He has experience with both Volvo and Mac and expediter trucks.

Our truck has the ZF Meritor 12-speed auto transmission in it. We have no complaints. It has been working well. The only thing we do not like about it is the position of the shifter on the side of the driver's seat. We would prefer to have a push-button pad on the dash.

A wheel alignment check will cost $50 to $80 depending on where you have it done. After the alignment shop sees your truck, the answers you get there will be much better than the ones you get here.

I don't know anything about your business or circumstances, but if I was in danger of losing a $500,000 contract over a single trailer, and if my customer was already upset, I'd probably rent a tractor and deliver the trailer myself.

>Got another dumb statement. > >OK all of you are talking about joining the OOIDA. > >How many of you die hard fans of the OOIDA are life members? > >That shows real devotion. I am an OOIDA lifetime member and also make annual contributions to the OOIDA PAC and litigation funds.

This is a question for fleet owners. To help aspiring expediters understand what fleet owners look for in drivers, please describe the best team you ever had, the worst team you ever had, and what made them so.

From Land Line Magazine, "The National Biodiesel Board has issued what it’s calling a “winter weather advisory,†saying there’s a lot of biodiesel out there that doesn’t meet the industry standards against gelling and clogging." Full story...

GittinThere, I love your screen name. It's a great choice for expediters. Best to you as you work your way into expediting.

Anything >else that you would put on your dream truck? Before you think about what you want to put on your dream truck, you need to think about the dream team you will put in it to drive the thing. Business skills? Reserves? Competence? Work ethic? Judgement? Professionalism? Goals? Home...

RE: Is owning a truck the same as owning a buisnes Owning a truck does not make you a business person any more than owning a New Testament makes you a Christian.

By chance, will you be at FedEx orientation this Monday (Nov 13)? Diane and I will be at FedEx HQ for a few days then. While there will be lots of people at FedEx for you to chat with, Diane and I would be pleased to visit too, if you wish.

>Wombat >I've been with fed ex cc for a long long time,I guarantee >you it's not who you know,it's being in the right place at >the right time.You can be in an express center that moves >short freight,or you can go on your own, and be in one that >moves more long freight, you cant just take...

>Phil, can you pull the picture up of my truck. It is no >longer with FECC but everything else is the same. The only pictures of your truck that I know about (or remember if memory is failing) are those used in "A Brand New Expediter Shares His Thoughts."...