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Minnesotans know their spam. We even have the SPAM Museum museum that honors the stuff. "The SPAM® Museum is dedicated to the delicious meat first created at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant in 1937. It’s a fun and informational destination with interactive and educational elements designed...

If you happen to live north of Tokyo, an earthquake causes buildings around you to collapse, a tsunami washes away the neighborhood leaving rubble in its place, and now you get evacuated because a nearby nuclear power plant containment building exploded. If you happen to be in a truck in the...

There were a number of drivers who eagerly supported EOBR's when the idea first surfaced. I wonder if they would have been so eager to embrace EOBR's if they realized what their long term impact would be. As EOBR's become more widespread on the road and known in the public mind, they are...

Actually, to be an independent contractor, you must operate your business in a way that meets the IRS definition of independent contractor. It has nothing to do with exclusive use or even trucking for that matter. Carpenters and sales representatives can be independent contractors too...

Part of what makes expediting expediting is the unpredictable nature of the beast. Plans can be made and expectations can be formed but circumstances develop that make it challenging to stay focused and perceive things well. When you find yourself sitting longer than you think you should...

Does it get lonely living in a world where everyone else is a moron and no one understands?

Sound fishy? Not even a little. It has been explained to you several times in this thread by several experienced and professional drivers how the safety arguement you present is not valid. Yet you continue to stick to your groundless story. Based on the information you provided, no way did FedEx...

A more effective approach toward success in expediting and satisfaction with a carrier would be to shift the focus from THEY to I. Before signing on with a carrier, I need to learn what they really are gong to pay. I need to know how exactly the carrier perceives refused runs. I need to know...

No, I am not saying FedEx recruiters are liars. I am saying that I do not belive the orignial poster was told what he says he was told. That is not calling him a liar either. I believe that this is yet another case where someone got sidetracked by one's own wishful thinking and came to believe...

You were PROMISED that you could make $3,000 a week? Who made such a promise and when, and what written document do you have on file that proves it? Get real, ljubisa. My parents used to promise me that Santa Clause would come to the house every Christmas Eve...my own parents told me this and...

E-mail addresses are difficult to keep private even when you try. Example: I once received an e-mail from a social networking site that I had never heard of before. It was an invitation to join. I later figured out that they got my address from a friend of mine who had my e-mail address in her...

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Glen and Janice put their truck on with FedEx Custom Critical in March, 2002. It was destroyed in an accident in December, 2003. Glen tells me that a policy change was made to accomodate his truck body and all that followed that were not painted fully white. He presented drawings to the then...

You can drop the explaination points, pookie98me. You are working harder at being right than considering other points of view and getting at the truth. I read in your earlier posts that you flat out told dispatch that you were too tired to drive and needed space to sleep in your van. Dispatch...

I don't belileve such promises were made at all. Salary? Self-employed contractors are not on salary. Hardly no wait time? Expediters (true expedited freight) of all companies are known for waiting. That's part of the expediting gig. You wait. Wishful thinking and hearing what one wants to...

Thank you for sharing the details. I think I see the problem now. FedEx knows you as a B-unit that is capable of hauling a specified volume of freight, and not as a van with bunk space, the available cubic feet of which changes with the mood and needs of the driver. When a customer calls for a...

Very well stated. Dispatchers are human and in moments of frustration may make mistakes or commit bad acts that run wide of the rules. But the company policies about safety and covering loads are very clear. When I said above that Diane and I had never been pressured to take a load, I did not...

I can't comment about other people's experiences with truck and box paint, except to agree with Linda's point that the rules change from time to time. Also note that FedEx Custom Critical's contract is an at-will contract, meaning that contractors can be terminated for any reason, or no reason...

Goodness knows how many hundreds of load offers Diane and I have received over the seven years we have been with the company. NOT ONCE has dispatch tried to force a load on us that we turned down. We have been offered the same load more than once. We have been offered the same load a second...

Since I know how to use a ruler to draw a line, understand the difference between logging a fuel stop as a fuel stop instead of logging it as driving, and can do simple arithmetic to calculate my hours, I hadn't thought about the benefits EOBR's provide to drivers who lack such skills...