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In 2007, there were less than 20 trucks in the FedEx Custom Critical straight truck fleet that produced more revenue than us. I know this because I asked and people who are able to run reports at our carrier told me. They did not give names and I did not ask for them. I asked because I wanted to...

You may not have enough info for a month, but you do have enough to answer the question asked. The question was about the best three loads of the nine loads you mentioned. That information you have in hand right now. All of this may be true, but the question is not that complicated. You spoke...

Even that kind of comparison would be cloudy because conditions change within carriers, between competing carriers, and in the economy. If a team and truck has an OK year with one carrier and moves to another, and then has a slow year because the economy slowed down, or because it took the team...

Thank you, jaminjim. Bruno? Anyone else?

Nothing could be further from the truth. That fleet owner is someone who talked volumes to us about his circumstances and resons for leaving. I am not unfamiliar with the man and his circumstances. They are not circumstances that enable an easy apples-to-apples comparison. You fail to mention...

I am not asking about anything other than what Bruno's three best runs pay. The clear picture I am after is about run pay and nothing more. Driver variables make everything else cloudy. Run pay is something that can be compared apples to apples. Granted, there is more to comparing expedite...

Bruno is the one that set out to say "What it's like at Panther" so I thought it appropriate to ask him for more information about the runs he talked about. I used to give numbers about runs and months. All it got me was a ton of grief from people who accused me of lying or saying my numbers...

Can you provide a link to the thread?

If you are into refrigerator magnets, you might enjoy a visit to the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota (Twin Cities), when you ae next in the area. They have a store there that specializes in refrigerator magnets. It seems you are not alone in your magnet interest.

And the rest of the story is? If your intention is to imply that you are making more money at Panther, or that you are treated not like a number at Panther, you succeeded. If your intention is to provide facts about actual compensation and actual pay, more information is required for readers...

This is good to know. I have a couple more to send - MN and WI - but did not know if the class still wanted them. They will go out this weekend.

Diane and I have been told our carrier is non-directional (loads are dispatched without regard to where they take or leave a truck driver). We were told that before we signed up and signed up not expecting directional dispatch. It is nothing to complain about. We knew it going in. If you did not...

As others have pointed out, your friends do not understand the system. I want to encourage newbies to think about this a bit more. Here are people who are taking actions and getting upset based on what they know about the system, but not knowing that they do not know how the system really works...

You are nowhere near in as much trouble as the guy I saw in a hardware store. He was buying a weed whip for his wife's birthday gift and telling people in line at the checkout counter how good it was and how much she would enjoy it.

While it is true that many of the expediters that leave the business do so because they did not have good business sense or game plan, I am not sure it is true that there is more driver turnover than in O/O T/T driving. From talking to the recruiting departments at various expedite carriers and...

The current issue of Expedite NOW includes an article about uShip. Available in print now, it will appear online in the future. I had not paid much attention to uShip before reading the piece. After reading it, I explored the uShip.com web site and ended up spending a couple hours there, just...

Now I know what to get you for Christmas, gota go --a trucker jacket with Airtabs sewen onto the sleeves. and blue jeans with Airtabs on the legs. ;)

Not in this case. There were no on-ramps on this stretch of road.

I thought that might come up after I posted. I failed to mention that I did not turn my head to aim the small digital camera. I just pointed it in the general direction of the rear window and fired off a bunch of shots, some of which captured the scene. And yes, you are right. It would be really...

Driving a four-wheeler the other day, I was on a divided highway that closed one lane for road construction. As traffic slowed, a Mac dump truck came up on my bumper and hovered just inches away. Traffic sped up, I pulled away, he caught up and hovered again. The cycle repeated as we went...