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Expedited freight is not the same load by load. Much of what we haul is high-value freight where sometimes a dozen people are waiting to go to work on it the instant it arrives. If the freight resolves an assembly line down issue, an employer may be managing the time he or she will have a...

Yes. November is shaping up to be an unusually slow month for us.

I didn't. Reread the post and let it go. Gary has and so have I.

1. They often do give the phone number. 2. They always give it when we have asked. 3. I don't want the number if I can help it. We are more than happy to let dispatch talk to shippers and consignees. For things like local directions needed as you approach the delivery and find your directions...

You got it wrong, Dave. In the departure call, they ask you what your reefer set point is on the paperwork and on the control unit. Looking at the control unit to confirm the set point is what reminded us to turn it on. Human error. It happens. Service failure prevented. Would not have happened...

Onan's 150 hour service inteval is a curious thing. The oil and filter changes are quick and easy to do (after a couple practice rounds) so I do them. I'd rather spend a little more on 3 quarts of oil and a filter than risk the generator. But the 150 hours strike me as strange when competing...

Improvements have been made. Departure calls for surface expedite loads are now automated and completed with a few button pushes. For many of the loads we haul, I'm not so sure I would want a system as simple as you describe. We have had it happen several times where, on an involved departure...

Sounds good to me! :) We both had our say. Let's move on.

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I call 'em like I see 'em, Bruno.

The issue is not people sayig FedEx is not the best. The issue is an ex-contractor saying he is doing so much better in another opportunity when he never gave the FedEx ER-unit opportunity a fair chance. It is misleading to new readers to tell half the story. His decision to leave FedEx was good...

All this talk about Panther Driver Council elections is well and good, but would it not be more appropriate to post it in the Panther forum where Panther drivers can kick it around? This is one of the few things that come up on the Open Forum that really are carrier specific.

I happen to believe that FedEx Custom Critical is the best game in town, which is why I stay. If I knew of a better game for the kind of trucking we want to do, lifestyle we live and money we want to make, I'd go to the better game. There is more to this than what I'd like to think and I take...

The ideal company would offer me more loads than I could haul, let me turn down all that I wished, permitted me to drive only where I wanted to drive, get me home under load on demand, and pay me more than I was worth. Oh yea. Upon signing on with this company, I should be able to sit in the...

Pizza delivery?

Reports of generator (APU) issues regularly surrace here. Clocking our 5,000th trouble-free hour on our generator got me to thinking that it might be nice to hear some generator success stories. They would be useful to people considering a generator purchase. Our Onan Quiet Diesel 7500...

Lower fuel prices are a bright spot and welcome good news in my view. While the fuel surcharge will drop with the price, so will our operating expenses. In theory, at least, lower costs should make it easier for shippers to ship goods. With cold weather coming, generator use will increase...

I suspect the Trip Pak business will be sold off as a unit to another company that will run it. This would be an opportunity for FedEx Custom Critical, a subsidiary of FedEx Freight, which is a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation to shop around for someone that provides FedEx-like services for...

Here is more detail from the CNN story about DHL: "DHL's 9,500 job cuts are on top of 5,400 job reductions announced earlier this year. After these layoffs, between 3,000 and 4,000 employees will remain at DHL's U.S. operations, the company said. "The company also said it was shutting down...

Contrast this with an automotive pickup we did once at a Toyota plant (we do very little automotive freight). We were in and out in no time and treated well by dock personnel. When I commented on the cleanliness of the plant, the non-union worker spoke of his happiness as an employee and told me...