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OK DaveKC. I responded and gave you your chance to have your your say. Going forward, you build your trucks and I'll build mine.

>How many have experienced a truck build disaster? This has >come up on more than one occassion when someone has decided >to build a truck from scratch rather than buying a spec >truck. Sometimes it is just ordering a truck from a dealer >that has no experience with expediting. Lawrence had...

RichM is right. Driving more hours than HOS allows is not an asset in expediting, it is a liability. Even if you are in a cargo van where logging is not required, few people in the expediting industry will respect you for exceeding HOS. Most will either condemn that activity to your face, shake...

>A Team,How did your new truck build turn out? Why do you ask? I sense yet another pot shot comming. You have a bad habbit of injecting questions or comments about me personally that have little or nothing to do with the topic raised by the posters that start the threads. It's a habbit that...

This news story left my wife and I with a feeling of satisfaction. Thought I'd share it for others to enjoy too. http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/05/541.asp http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/15745 http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/12189563.htm Newspaper links often...

the www.truckpaper.com makes it easy to search for particular kind of trucks and they list a lot of trucks overall. It would take some time and effort, but you could use those ads to build a database and then do your analysis on it. Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet program would work, as...

>OK! Lawrence has approved the project. We'll have a business >planning feature story done in time for the EO show, and >we'll create an expediter's business planning resource >center on the web that features real-world business planning >info from real-world expediters. > >Watch the Open...

It's not unusual for people to become expediters with no truck driving experience whatsoever. When my wife and I started, we had none. The two-dozen fleet owners we interviewed before selecting one all said they'd bring us on. At that time, our carrier had (and still has, I believe) a...

It's no secret, and the company does not deny, that some Landstar agents run their own fleets. It should be naturally assumed that an agent that owns his or her own trucks will load them first and with the best loads they can before looking for other trucks to haul the same freight. LEA drivers...

Awesome! Instead of letting the "tow bar people" get under your skin, you turn it into an ammusement and deal with it safely. Very professional, maintaining control of your attitude and emotions behind the wheel as you do. Great post!

> > >> >>To the extent that "All men are created equal" I take your >>meaning. No person is better than anyone else. But within >>the trucking industry, the White Glove drivers I know are >>anything but "poor slobs". Because they take their jobs >>seriously, and because they do it well, they...

I was thinking >about Con Way because I seen out at there web site they try >to hook up drivers with other O/O. Be sure to check out the Drivers Wanted section in EO's Free Classifieds. See the Free Classifieds link at top of this page. Go to school on the EO site. The more hours you invest...

We've used it in a couple of the trucks we've driven and have no reason to doubt the manufacturer's claims. However, it is not a fill and forget solution. Over time, testing is required and chemicals may need to be added to replace those that broke down with age. Having some experience with...

RE: New Guy with Class 8 Straight truck Please HEL >3. Am I better off with tandems or a single axle then pay to >add tag axle? We've driven a tandem-axle D-unit and 3 single-drive-axle rigs with lift axles. All were Freigthliner Century Class trucks in the year 2000-2001 range. BY FAR, the...

In my >short time in this business I have had quite a few drivers >tell me I will not make it. Ha! It seems the more you like the business, the more of that one gets! It is curious, is it not, that people will take it upon themselves to neutralize the belief you have in yourself? Reminds me...

>If all the big trucks actually ran 55 in Michigan the >highways would be so jammed up that the 4 wheelers would beg >for a higher truck speed limit. I agree. The best way to get split speed limits repealed is to obey them.

I'm not offering advice, just sharing what we did. We run as a sole proprietorship and will continue to do so as owner operators when our new truck is purchased. As a one-truck entity with us as the corporate officers and drivers, we do not find the liability protection corporations supposedy...

>The white glove of the Roberts days are much different than >what you see today. Rates were quite different. >You are right, that was when you could make some big money. > >Davekc >owner >21 years I've heard that "good old days, big money" statement many times but it has never been...

>You could have also lost the $5,000 load if it was going in >to one of the union plants. Kinda goes both ways. So why >have it? The union plant point has been made before. Our experience is we've been in D-unit liftgate-equipped trucks for nearly two years. We've picked up and delivered in...

>One question I would like answered how much extra does this >risk actually pay? Maybee I am completely wrong but the >answer will prove it one way or the other. > >I will wait for an answer.... Sometimes the liftgate premium on a particular load is as little as $50. Liftgate loads are not...