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Expediters are at the same time competitors and colleagues. As the business ebbs and flows and business decisions are made, some do well, others do fair, some fail. When someone washes out of the business it is something to be concerned about, not from a competitive level but a collegiate one...

Diane and I plan to make it through the recession and freight slowdown. While we have marketable skills and other career options, we have no backup plans beyond expediting. That is because plans earlier made and actions earlier taken ensure that we will stay. We always knew freight could slow...

Once upon a time, when I was a young boy, it was Christmas Eve. My grandparent's house was decorated inside and out. Brightly wrapped presents spilled out from under the tree. Santa's upcoming visit meant even more would be there when my younger brother and I awoke in the morning. My parents...

It depends on how you define boss. If you take a broad definition to include laws you must comply with, like the requirement to keep a log book, sure, I have a boss in the federal governemnt that sets and enforces rules that govern trucking. And I have a boss in local governments that set speed...

I am not interested in being courted by you, Bruno. My comment about you being good looking was a joke, not a come-on. Diane and I are happily married my sexual orientation is that of a straight male.

Leyman makes a slide under gate that may interest you. Interlift makes one that is just great. I'd give you that web site but the stupid thing crashes my computer when I open the product page. Diane and I have used Interlift gates on fleet owner trucks. We did not put one on our truck because...

That is the sense I am getting. The loads are still there. The shippers are still active. The pay is holding up (when you account for the lower fuel surcharge and lower fuel prices). What is different is we are sitting longer between loads and are not predispatched as often. I expect there...

Thank you for that piece, Bruno. It seemed to me that the Big 3 CEO's that came off corporate jets with tin cups in their hands were playing fast and loose with the numbers. It is remarkable that for all the money they were asking for, they could not produce a plan on how they would spend it.

Absolutely, Positivily Correct! FedEx is toast. Panther is immune. And Bruno is good looking!

No I don't.

It would be easier if fleet owners would be willing to subject themselves to the same background check they and their carriers subject their drivers to. If you are looking for a way to screen predatory fleet owners out of the industry, or to protect drivers and carriers from financially weak...

Can you name a business of any kind where that is not true? And about the averages, so what? For any induvidual, far more important than how and what the masses do is how and what you do. If the failure rate for a brand new business person in any endeavor you care to name is say 90%, to me...

The prospective team in question is talking about beginning in a fleet owner's truck. Would not the fleet owner be the one to provide the knowledge of the freigtht centers and maintenance issues? It was in our case. We entered the business with the ink still wet on our CDLs and having no idea...

A lot expediters happily gave up the toilet because it meant getting rid of the boss too.

Your source?

A straight truck with two drive axles in California is required to chain up both drive axles (diagram) when chains are required. Washington only requires that one drive axle be chained. So if you have two drive axles and are carrying chains to be legal in California, you are automatically legal...

We will be in service, available and hopefully under load. We will also be giving thanks for the life and work we so enjoy.

A growing number of expediters with a variety of carriers are reporting slower freight. How long it will be until freight recovers and how strong the recovery will be is anyone's guess. So if you choose to enter the business now, there is no question about it, you will be doing so at a slow...

Gary, Your story is informative and accurate as far as I know but you did not address the issue I raised; that of accurately comparing revenue between one opportunity and another. Speaking from my own experience with the same carrier, if you are given the opportunity to do so but choose not...