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>Remember those old days of 62 and 46 %. Everyone was >paranoid that the 46 percenters would get the offer >first.How about getting put out of service for 2 refusals. >On the other side they would buy you a motel room every >night. This is good! Including a number of fifty-word "I...

The History of Expediting project is a go. See: http://www.expeditersonline.com/dcforum/DCForumID1/3882.html Keep that information coming, folks. It's exactly what we need!

Greg said, "...so if you write an in depth history, you >have to include things like the expedited freight service >that the rail roads provided in the 19th century, the stage >coach system, the original expediters – the US mail system >and western union – each dealt with time sensitive...

>Sorry to pee on your parade but I got to add something here. > >You all know it is great to hear about the history of EO and >some of the world of expediting, but got to tell you a quick >history, two maybe three pages is really the best thing and >have the hall of fame people tell their...

Many CB radios sold today include the NOAA weather bands in them. When the switch is on "CB" you can dial into channels 1-40. When the switch is on "WX" you can dial through a handful of NOAA weather channels (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminsitration, a government entity. Most of the...

This is great and it's one way to do research. We don't have to tell the story. We just need to follow the bread crums and let the story tell itself. An arricle might yield a name. A photo might yield a former truck dealer. A company-written company history might yeild some dates. Just keep...

An easy way to obtain carrier truck requirement and usage info is to contact recruiters with the carriers that interest you. Numerous carriers are listed on the EO home page. Clicking on them takes you to a pre-application form. You do not need to complete all fields, just your basic contact...

That's sad. The Ford plant in Saint Paul has been part of the employment landscape for many years. There are fathers and sons and some of their relatives that have been working their for many years. If you told people you worked at the Ford plant, most people in town would have considered you to...

>There's a couple different ways to go, depending on each >situation. Generally, I think you can tell whether someone >is being friendly, and just trying to start a conversation >with another driver... simply for the conversation. > >In those cases, it's usually more of a casual "hey, where...

This thread is rapidly going south. Perhaps it should be deleted or locked. I'm done with it. No more posts here from me. Anyone who wishes can have the last words.

>This is what I found on some of the history on Expediting. Where did you go to find it? We should add your source to the list of other sources people are also beginning to provide.

DaveKC wrote, "The magazine "Owner Operator" had numerous articles through the years when expediting was first starting." That suggests a research task. We'd need to go to the publisher or a library that archives the magazine to acquire copies of the articles.

This is good information that would be helpful in constructing an industry time line.

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Perhaps I over-reacted. I'm not without character faults. But I stand by my claim, not that my production is double yours, but that month to date, we likely made more money than most (over half) of the trucks we saw running loaded out of Laredo and San Antonio...both cheap freight centers.

Five loads a day out of Dallas sounds about right and matches what we have seen on the boards in the time we've been here. But some of them have been E loads. When we arrived in Houston yesterday, we were the third of three trucks on the board. The first two were dispatched out under load. We...

This is helpful but it only tells the story from the FedEx point of view. A proper history would branch out to all major carriers from the Roberts beginning. At least one carrier got its start by people breaking off from Roberts before FedEx acquired Roberts. Others rose as competing entites as...

Freight philosophy varies from driver to driver and company to company. The saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure." applies to expediting as well. Depending on the kind of freight you want to run and how you want to configure your truck and life on the road, freight options exist...

I have estimated my cpm and have started working >on a business plan. Is there anything that I missed? While EO's editorial calender is too slow for your schedule, you may nevertheless be interested in the Business Planing for Successful Expediters series...

lrjet, I'm a team driver with my wife, not solo, so I can't speak from solo experience. I can say the majority of people who enter the business do so by purchasing their own truck from the get go. That does not mean they succeed, it's just how they start. Diane and I drove someone elses truck...