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A friend called me last night and talked about the nightmarish 15 hours he spent on the roads in the Arkansas storm. That got me thinking about this thread. Observations: - Arkansas really did do a terrible job of keeping the roads clear in this storm. A feeble effort was made but the snow...

You have already indicated an openess to using an attorney so you are on the right track. Apprehension is understandable as you find yourself in unfamiliar territority. Reading the book mentioned above will transform many of the unknowns into knowns and thereby reduce the apprehension.

The more you think about fair and equitable, the greater disadvantage you heap on yourself. The company whose employee injured your son is not thinking about fair and equitable. It is thinking about how to minimize costs by minimizing liability. The insurance company is not thinking about...

I don't think grasshopper is right on this. There are people who have driven both straight trucks and vans and I will defer to them if I am wrong, but I don't think a van can make more money than a straight truck in the hands of the same driver, assuming the driver is competent and desires to...

This is a work accident event, governed by state laws and the occupational accident insurance contract. Your son is not a company employee but a contractor on the property. Into play may come the laws of the state where the accident happened or the state in which the injured person resides...

It is the perfect question to ask when you are feeling like you do, but be careful of the hazards. Take time to think about what you are thinking about. Ask what is going on with your carrier. Also ask what is going on with yourself. Have you ever seen someone so angry that he or she says to...

Running in the red Red flag Red faced Seeing red I don't want to get into the details but found it interesting to do a quick Google search on the meaning and psychology of the color red. After reading it, I would have stayed with the color blue if the choice had been mine. When we had our...

It seems to me, xlr81966, that you are not so much reading between the lines as you are putting two and two together.

Especially in California, it would be OK to hire gay drivers too.

Fred Smith has said that most FedEx customers are color blind. They don't have an eye for FedEx blue, red, green, grey, orange, and yellow. They just see FedEx. They don't zero in much on the different operating companies. To most people, it is just FedEx. He is right. Diane and I find that to...

Zero for uniforms. When they changed uniforms a while back contractors bought their own. I don't kow about sign changes for the trucks.

Note also that Passport Transport made a brief appearance at FedEx Custom Critical, followed by a quick exit. Reading between the lines is a survival skill in this business. The better you are at it, the better you can position yourself for the future.

Actually, the color change relates exactly to an operational change. In this case, the color change is not a cause. It is an effect; one of many effects that followed when FCC was placed under FedEx Freight. FedEx is a perpetually evolving company. Color schemes aside, operational changes are...

That's trucking! It happens to all of us. It's part of the game.

Yes there are checks and rechecks, and only those who are willing and able to meet the standards get to stay. (Some have been allowed to play but don't get to stay after they fall short.) While contractors pay significant costs (financial and otherwise) to provide White Glove trucks and...

While it may be true that we can be called in for a drug test 24/7 365, I have yet to be called in to a clinic that was open 24/7 365. Diane and I have never been tested outside of normal business hours, perhaps because the nearby clinics are only open during normal business hours.

If this is an approach that works for you, I guess all I can say is go for it. It is not an approach that works for Diane and me and I encourage any expediter wannabees reading this to consider what you value and what you want to accomplish as an expediter. If you value uninterrupted off-duty...

You answer the phone because they may be calling with a load offer or for help in resolving a customer service question or any number of other reasons for which you would want them to get through. We are self-employed independent contractors. The work rules and lines between work and play are...

You may be missing the fact that even without a 34 hour reset, you can continue to drive in most cases. Every time you add a day of driving on the front end, another drops off the back end, leaving a team with plenty of hours to drive in most cases. It has happened only a few times in seven...

How big of an issue is this really? First, random drug tests do not happen that often; maybe twice a year at most. Second, if they do happen, they seem to come at times convenient to us, at least in our experience. We have been called in when we were in training at FedEx, on a Monday morning...