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  1. ATeam

    Prime Time

    While we can debate the specific start dates of the busy season, I believe it is fair to say we are in it now. Allowing, of course, for vital family events and health issues, this is the season to optimize your time out on the road, in service time, and to haul as much freight as you can. In...
  2. ATeam

    Interesting Email

    FedEx Truckload Borkerage is a new addition to the FedEx portfolio. As with all other components of the FedEx portfolio, and their developing efforts to cross-sell among divisions, I would expect more good than harm for Custom Critical contractors to come out of Truckload Brokerage.
  3. ATeam

    How I saved a Bundle.........

    In the information age, an information appliance that keeps you connected is an essential item.
  4. ATeam

    Canada Canada rate exchange

    It's actually a bit more than that. The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank lowered interest rates today and markets moved in response. At one point today, the U.S. dollar was worth $0.97 Canadian. I'm not sure what it is this moment but the U.S. dollar, already weak, grew weaker in response to lower U.S...
  5. ATeam

    Signage and Advertising

    nobb4u, I believe you are correct. That is my understanding too, based on what scale cops told me multiple times when we drove a fleet owner's truck with no VIN number on the side. Passenger side only is required as Colorado scales are set up to view that side of the truck.
  6. ATeam

    Settlement Department At FedEx

    No problems here. We have never had a problem getting paid accurately and on time with FedEx. In rare cases where a question may rise, it has been instantly resolved with a phone call. If we get our paperwork in promptly and in good order, we get paid promply and in good order.
  7. ATeam

    APU -WTF

    Roof unit is a Carrier Air V (low profile). 15,000 BTU. Specs: http://www.airv.carrier.com/Files/AirV/Local/US-en/customer_service/62-11037.pdf Regarding your question about feeling chilled in the cab (sleeper) when outside temp is over 100F, the unit will freeze us out of the truck if it is...
  8. ATeam

    APU -WTF

    As luck would have it, I stopped by an Onan dealer today to buy air filters. I asked a technician there what the life expectancy of our generator is. He said he has seen generators like ours, that have been properly maintained, with 15,000 hours on them. In the fifteen months we have been in...
  9. ATeam

    Signage and Advertising

    >I would totally agree. But there are that handful of >managers and locations that are anti- trucking. I would guess that some of those are ones that have written checks to repair the parking lot posts trucks have run down, curbs trucks have crushed, ruts trucks have left in the lawns, and...
  10. ATeam

    APU -WTF

    >I haven't talked to anyone who was happy with their apu. We are happy with our generator (apu). It's an Onan Quiet Diesel, 7500. We have had no problems with it, except a fuel pump that was cheerfully replaced at no charge under warranty by an Onan dealer on the road. We have 2,900 hours on...
  11. ATeam

    Winter and Chains!

    The tirechains.com web site has a bunch of useful information regarding tire chains (See: http://www.tirechain.com), including a link to tire chain regulations for many states (See: http://www.tirechain.com/TIRECHAINUSEREGULATIONS.htm), including Colorado (See...
  12. ATeam

    Have you noticed?

    Like many expediters and other truckers, we sometimes park in Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lots while shopping or to spend the night. Until recently, it seemed that most lots were patrolled 24 hours a day by roving security guards in cars with yellow flashing lights on top. Where they permitted...
  13. ATeam

    Signage and Advertising

    I do not disagree with you about the acceptance factors you mention, and your point about me having only being with one carrier is valid. I base my conclusions about the power of the FedEx brand on real-life experiences like the manager comments quoted above, and others; like the time, for...
  14. ATeam

    REPOST.. GIVIN it a go….

    Regarding spending and sleeper size, it pays to shop around. Our truck has a full-featured, custom-built, 132" sleeper with all the bells and whistles. We purchased it from ARI in Shipshewanna, Indiana. Another vendor, also located in Indiana, would have charged us $15,000 more for a 120"...
  15. ATeam

    lift axle controls

    It has been a while since that ticket was issued. I'm sorry, but I do not recall the exact location in Louisiana. I would have to go home and dig through old paperwork to look it up.
  16. ATeam

    Borrowing

    An alternative to using credit cards as an emergency backup is, of course, to maintain financial reserves that you can use instead of a credit card. People here in the Open Forum have recommended keeping enough money in the bank to cover three to six months of expenses. Drivers with good...
  17. ATeam

    Signage and Advertising

    While I am pleased to receive an extra spiff for displaying large FedEx Custom Critical signs on our truck (though, it takes some time to make up the up front cost FedEx charges contractors to install the large signs), I would display the large signs for free if it came to that. FedEx is one...
  18. ATeam

    Finance Calculators ETc..

    > Educated people with two incomes and than they have to get >a part time job, go figure did they not learn anything about >finances while in that school? The things people have done >just to buy a house is amazing but once in that dream turns >into a NIGHTMARE. Than at sometime comes...
  19. ATeam

    lift axle controls

    In a fleet owner's truck, where the lift axle controls were within the driver's reach, a scale cop in Louisiana issued a $100 ticket for that violation; which the fleet owner paid. He reasoned he would take his chances with additional fines instead of paying money to relocate the controls.
  20. ATeam

    Thank you for the post from raynchk.

    To the extent that it matters, and it probably does not, I saw the post in question before it was removed. Panther competes against my carrier (FedEx Custom Critical) so I have no feathers ruffled when a Panther-negative post goes up. However, my feathers do get ruffled when I see a baseless and...
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