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Leo said, “Not that it isn't a good idea but the much shorter solution than a couple dozen questions for the newbie to ask me before believing anything I tell them is to tell the newbies to ask at least a half dozen members the same questions and equally weigh the responses. They should be...

Land Line magazine has had stories in the past about truck drivers that successfully worked with their city councils to make truck parking regs more reasonable. You might want to do a search on the Land Line web site on the topic. Owners of collector cars often have car covers custom made. Might...

January weather in Minnesota varies a lot. I remember a January day when I was outdoors in shirt sleves on a sunny afternoon helping a friend split logs. The temp was around 50F. From posts here, it appears this January (2006) sounds like a warm one too, though temps could easily plunge to...

Was the original post positive or negative? It was negative. The writers first sentence charges negative motives and paints Conway with a broad brush. Had the first sentence been omitted, the post would have been neutral.

>What kind of car was involved? Sounds like one that would >have been tops in crash tests. Sorry. I did not take time to note the make and model. It was a mid-size sedan or full-size by today's standards. Years ago we would have called it a compact car. The car was brand new. The price list...

Additional info about the accident and random thoughts about it: 1. We were behind the truck that hit the car and the first to arrive on the scene. Parking our truck on the shoulder with flashers on secured the scene (to use a term that rose in the thread) for the moment. The car was in the...

Put yourself in this truck driver’s place. If something like this happens to you, are you prepared? This is a true story. We found ourselves in the middle of it today, as witnesses. Rural Kentucky. I-71. Light traffic. 10:30 AM. Dry roads. Moderate cross winds. Mostly cloudy skies. Road...

We recently had a liftgate failure in Dallas such that the truck could not be driven and stranded us on the road. A call to the Leyman HQ for help produced a referral to a Dallas dealer, W & B Service Company. A human being answered the phone when I called. The service manager there, Scott...

We've been to that Freightliner dealer in Tampa. Based on my experience there, if I found myself broke down in their parking lot again, I believe I'd be money ahead to have the truck towed someplace else.

>Whether it is intentional or not it has only been roughly a >couple of months since your claims of making $3.00 per mile >and then retracting it. >You content and delivery is usually what is questioned. >An example of this is; > >ATeam wrote >The implication that your trucks are doing...

>Sorry about your loss. > >But I have a really dumb question; I thought there were very >few exceptions (training, licensing, emergencies) for more >than two people in the cab underload by DOT regs. Maybe I >heard wrong and for some reason it sticks in my mind as I >thought I heard it. I...

Readers of this thread will be intersted in another thread about Freightliner service too: http://www.expeditersonline.com/dcforum/DCForumID16/1107.html

Allow me to add, by the definition of success I gave above, Diane and I were failures in 2005, relative to the financial goal we set. We do not consider ourselves top producers by any means, and I never said so in this thread. The top producers I speak about are other people whose income level...

>For example, tomorrow morning we pick up a WG load in Texas >to deliver to Washington DC. Just an update regarding that load. We lost it. After picking up the courrier and making two stops to pick up the art work, a hydraulic hose on the lift gate burst, leaving the liftgate on the ground...

Tennesseahawk wrote, ">That's great that you post your 10 smallest runs. It's good >that you warn ppl that bankruptcy can and does happen. I >guess the point is, you encourage ppl to throw caution to >the wind. The "you can buy a $100,000 truck and make your >fortune in expediting"...

Success in expediting is what each expediter says it is for him or her self. If you are achieving the goals you set for yourself (income oriented, lifestyle oriented, or any-other oriented), you are a sucessful expediter in my book.

While that was not my intent when I wrote the piece, I'm OK with the idea of having it printed up as a handout. My preference would be to have EO do it under the EO name. I'll talk to Lawrence about it. It may be need to be modified to be a bit more carrier neutral. I'll let you know.

Introduction To Expediting by Phil Madsen, Expediter[/b] Expediting, also known as critical-shipment freight transport, is a wonderful business opportunity for people who are up to the challenge. If you possess basic business skills, are able to spend weeks at a time away from home and can live...

Tennesseahawk wrote: >Don't you get it? You, and a few others on here, are >painting a rosey picture rarely seen. Whether you make that >money or not isn't the point. The point is, you're >convincing ppl to follow in your footsteps, and it's >IMPROBABLE that they'll succeed doing it! >...

How pray tell is a newbie without a financial >background supposed to reproduce your results? Excellent question! Short answer: First, note that the results I posted are TEAM results. Solo driving is an entirely different world. Do not think you can divide team results in half to predict...