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Tennesseahawk's point about the difference between husband/wife teams and solo drivers or not-same-household teams is an important one. Husband/Wife teams are highly sought in this business for the reasons Tennesseahawk mentions. Regarding committment, allow me to add that committment and...

cowboyz, 1. Are you running solo or team? 2. With two small kids at home, how often do you go home? 3. You have said you are in a WG-equipped, T-Val equipped truck. Have you been approved by FedEx to haul WG and T-Val freight? 4. Other than here on EO, where else are you seeking help from?

>He says he is running a DR unit and getting 1.15 to 1.25 per >mile load offers. >I think he clearly explains that isn't meeting his >expectations. >I can see why. >He says he needs 1.50 per mile. >No surprise there. >If you have a reefer unit, you better have a rate above 1.15 >a mile...

Yes Greg, I have the reefer payback formula in mind, but down time is down time, is it not? Whether it is due to hitting a pothole, or getting hit by another truck, or going in for reefer service or an engine rebuild, or going home for a grandchild's birthday, or going to your carrier's...

cowboyz, Do you have specific expecatations about what kind of loads you should be getting, how often, and at what price? Your frustrations may be sourcing from unrealistic expectations. Are you looking for $1.50 a mile with every mile? How many loads do you expect a month? How much money do...

RE: Hows the the new FedEx CC FSC program working >I would like to see other things happen; <snip> >AND access to the fuel isles at the express and ground >centers so we can pay for fuel up front at $1.25/gallon I would not like to see such access or such a fuel arrangement. I prefer the...

In a case where the FSC is charged to some customers but not to others, and where a fleet owner passes 100% of the FSC onto the driver, loads that include no FSC but had high enough pay to accept would be more profitable to the fleet owner since the FSC does not need to be factored out of the...

>I've been pondering the ponderousness of this thread and >have but one other comment. When enjoying downtime for >reefer repair, why not minimize the lost time/money factor >by having PM and CM done on 'other' truck components. Would >this not reduce the operational cost of the 'other'...

No need to get more complicated than necessary. Opening a second personal checking account at your bank and using it for all your business income and expenses will do the job.

>Please tell me anyone who has become financially well off >running in someone elses truck? That would be Diane and me. We ran fleet owner trucks for three years. In that time, we saved much more than we spent and built up enough money to make a sizable down payment on our new truck. Yes...

You think expediters have problems? Here's a quote from the Fall, 2006 edition of RV Journal. In response to an article in the Summer, 2006 edition about the poor quality of RVs, a reader writes in saying, "Here in Santa Maria, a local RV sales and repair shop suggests not buying any RV made in...

>I read the Newspaper report as I have met thee folks and >personally I don't think it's agood idea to identify Border >patrol agents by name in a public newspaper or forum. Obviously, the Border Patrol PR department that set up the story and gave in-school access to the LA times thinks...

Awesome, Jeff! I was hoping you would do a piece on them.

>I understand what you are saying but I am wondering if you >mean downtime of a truck or downtime of a truck with lost >potential revenue? > >--->Notice I said potential revenue<--- I mean downtime with lost potential revenue. All of the costs DaveKC mentions above, that arise when a truck...

While resting up and resetting our log books, we've been enjoying a very nice stay at the Pechanga RV Park and casino in Temecula, CA; about an hour north of San Diego on I-15 (take the CA-79 exit. Go East. Follow signs to the casino and RV park). The RV park itself is a bit picky about the...

Some EO readers know Matt and Katy Foscue. Until recently, they were a FedEx White Glove team driving their own truck. Today, they are lean, mean U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona. The LA Times wrote about them and others who recently became agents. You can read the story at...

In another thread that some consider too tedious, the subject of down time has been raised. While down time is a subtopic in the other thread, I'm raising the down time issue as a separate topic for simplicity sake. Let's say you are driving down the road and find yourself unable to avoid...

Leo said, "I'd never tell anyone it's wrong to buy their own truck if that's what they want to do. I'd also never tell anyone it's wrong to drive somebody else's truck for a few months while they learn the business and decide if it's for them." I agree. Allow me to add room for the drivers of...

The American system has always rewarded the producers who can provide a product or service faster, cheaper, and/or better. Growing up in Wisconsin, I remember a time when margarine was illegal to sell in "The Dairy State." It seems the dairy industry felt entitled to a monopoloy on butter...

RE: Broom made a response about what your time is The "my time is worth nothing" approach has its merits. Clock-punching employees get paid by the hour. Self-employed business owners do not.