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I would encourage you to broadcast the "Piper Way." Doing so would be a tremendous resource for anyone interested in developing or refining their way. The Piper Way, Madsen Way and anyone else's way is not THE way, but A way. Sharing your way is a contribution to everyone thinking through their own.

No, I have not tried any of these courses yet, but the prices seems to be right, even if true college credit may not be granted for completing the courses. A good portion of my down time is used to study. Of late, I have been studying financial accounting and day trading. Books in the truck...

Getting more involved with Twitter is a process of following people, being followed by others and making the occasional tweet (a post limited to 140 characters), or an ongoing stream of tweets if you are so inclined. Some tweet frequently, others limit themselves to five tweets or less per...

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Notice that I did not say do our work well so that we will be rewarded. I said do our work well so others may succeed. While there are certain business benefits that come with keeping your truck clean and yourself well-groomed, they are tangential at best. If two drivers (or teams) show up at...

Old news, indeed, but as far as I could tell, it was not news shared here. Since one's independent contractor status is of interest to self-employed expediters, I posted the info.

On an overnight run last week (Mon-Tue) we were on I-80 eastbound to I-287 eastbound into New York state. Other than that, we have not recently been in New Jersey.

If 99% of the people who start Twittering quit a short time later, it would suit me just fine. The news feeds and people I follow on Twitter are not the quitters. They are people of substance with valuable information to share. You can verify this by going to my Twitter profile and checking out...

In the last few weeks I have, online, made and interacted with a number of transportation industry contacts and supply chain professionals beyond expediting. As I do, it becomes crystal clear how very important it is that we -- the truck drivers who physically pick up, transport and deliver the...

The status of expediters as employees or independent contractors is a popular topic here in the Open Forum. While FedEx Ground is not FedEx Custom Critical, the ongoing debate and court challenges of a driver's status with FedEx Ground is of some interest to some if not all FDCC contractors...

To update this thread and keep the time line complete for readers who may refer to this thread in the future, here is the latest development: "MEMPHIS, Tenn. – April 21, 2009 – FedEx Ground, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., (NYSE: FDX), won a United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...

To update this thread and keep the time line complete for readers who may refer to this thread in the future, here is the latest development: "MEMPHIS, Tenn. – April 21, 2009 – FedEx Ground, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., (NYSE: FDX), won a United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...

To update this thread and keep the time line complete for readers who may refer to this thread in the future, here is the latest development: "MEMPHIS, Tenn. – April 21, 2009 – FedEx Ground, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., (NYSE: FDX), won a United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...

To update this thread and keep the time line complete for readers who may refer to this thread in the future, here is the latest development: "MEMPHIS, Tenn. – April 21, 2009 – FedEx Ground, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., (NYSE: FDX), won a United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...

We were wondering who that was. Thanks for letting us know. I was in bed. Diane was driving. She waved but that does not matter much in the dark. We normally run with the CB off.

Thank you for the kind words. Please see: Expediters on Twitter.

I recently got active on Twitter and am finding it to be a wonderful resource. If you have not done so already, I invite readers to check it out. Some EO members now have Twitter profiles. Lawrence McCord is one. Check out his Twitter page photo in which he impersonates an expediter getting a...

(Phil sighs and wonders to himself, why do I even bother with such nonsense? Disregarding the inner voice that says "Don't do it!" he proceeds to continue a meaningless dialogue that benefits not a bit the new readers who come to this site to learn about expediting. Such evil pleasures that lurk...

There are some for whom participation in the EO Open Forum resembles an addiction. I am among them. From time to time, it is healthy to pull the needle out of the arm and live free of the Open Forum for a while. This is one of those times. I will not be reading or posting in the Open Forum until...

Yes. You missed something. Actually you added something ("sort of did"). There is no "sort of did." It either happened or did not, and in this case, it did not. Asking a question about where something is said is not the same as telling people how to interpret something. I don't recall what I...