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Consciously altered behavior is part of it, yes but not all of it. Before I got on green tea, I drank diet soda pretty much all day long. No weight loss then. I could substitute water for green tea but do not believe I would receive the blood pressure benefit that I know for a fact is...

As I understand it, they all do, but not intentionally. Fuel goes bad for a variety of reasons; made bad, aged bad, stored bad, whatever. I may be mistaking trucker talk for facts here but from what I have heard, the cut-rate, off-brand stores that sell fuel significantly below the market price...

This post was prompted by ebsprintin's deer strike survey thread. It is an excerpt from my March, 2009, blog. It's funny how one's perspective can change. When I grew up in small-town Wisconsin, men hunted deer. They regarded it as an important skill and the deer as wild game. I came to...

Same here, except I'll add that the truck runs the same on any major-brand fuel. We don't buy fuel from cut rate corner stores. As far as mileage differences between brands, it's impossible to tell. Brand X may be an inferior fuel for whatever reason but if you buy it and drive on a calm day...

Thank you for the invitation to be involved in your Expediter Hall of Fame. For the reasons noted above, and with Nightcreachure's good points in mind, I respectfully decline.

When Diane and I started with FedEx Custom Critical in 2003, we heard about people who had been designated "Contractor of the Year" by the carrier. If anyone was so designated after 2003, we don't recall hearing about it. I think the program was dropped because it caused more resentment than...

I posted these Green Tea Diet results in early May. Now mid-June, the belt has come in a second notch. See also this post.

Thank you for the heads-up. It seems the focal point will be downtown Toronto, a place Diane and I have yet to see. Toronto-area freight we have hauled seems always to go in or out of the suburbs. As for highway blockades, we have those in the U.S. every day, twice a day in most cities. They...

From the June 10 Journal of Commerce: "YRC Stock Value Slides 25 Percent YRC Worldwide's stock plunged to a record low Wednesday, dropping from about 31 cents to 22.2 cents per share before pulling up to 23.1 cents when the market closed."

I was talking by phone to long-time dispatcher and agent Debbie Lee a couple days ago and she said she is retiring at the end of June. She put 20 years into the company and it is time to move on, she said. I know a lot of contractors who have more energy on Debbie Lee than they have on other...

You are correct. Diane and I do not look for our own freight intensively. In fact, we almost never look for our own freight at all. Nor do we call our carrier to look for freight. For the most part, our freight finding strategy is to hang out and wait for the Qualcomm beep or cell phone call...

The sign maker needs to return to spelling class.

You asked a simple question (Would you use an expedite broker?). My answer presumes that this hypothetical broker would have a supply of freight that is worth hauling. If that were so, it would be a no-brainer to use an expedite broker. Shifting to the specifics of a past incident or the...

Before our carrier made it possible to get substantial fuel price discounts at TA truck stops, Diane and I learned to avoid TA showers because many of them were just plain nasty. Better showers could be found just about everywhere else. The fuel discount program brought us back to TA, and...

Expediter wannabees, listen close to reports like these and consider what they mean for you. If you enter this business, it will not be long before stories like this are being told, if not by you, by people you personally know. When you get into expediting, you get into dangerous work. The...

Wouldn't anyone?

Thank you for the link.

As a self-employed owner-operator and independent contractor, the more independent and self-responsible I can be with my equipment, the better I like it. Technology changes so fast that any arrangement made today will be trumped by something better in the near future. Individual needs and...

So with an air cargo report like this and similar reports showing up in other freight sectors, how are things looking for expediters? We see what's in the news. What do y'all see on the ground and on your trucks?

Everything you say is true. It is also true that expediting has been and continues to be the easiest, most lucrative and most fun job Diane and I have ever had. :)