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Terry O'Connell is well-schooled and very articulate on the "What is Expediting" topic. I wonder if we might trouble him to restate his suggested definition here? His October, 2007 piece is very informative.

Does it even matter? The day you let other people tell you who you are is the day you give your power away. If it was me, and I configured my truck and business to haul jet engines, I would probably tell people I haul jet engines for a living. Whether other people consider that to be...

Ditto. A change may or may not be wise, depending on what you want or need.

We would be open to synthetic oil and super-extended oil change intervals but for one thing; the truck warranty. Volvo requires oil changes every 15,000 miles or 25,000 miles for light duty use. Thus our oil change interval is 25,000 miles. It will stay that way until our warranty expires five...

Caught in the Atlanta rush hour? Yes, many times. Wished to move to the outside lanes? No. When the roads are jammed up I don't see much difference between the lanes (except the number one lane which we avoid because entering and exiting cars slow that lane down and try to nose their way in)...

If your passion is art but you are driving a truck, driving a truck is not likely to take you where you want to go.

Another reason to attend the Expo is to get a feel for the mood and outlook of our industry in these uncertain economic times. With things like credit crisis, mortgage crisis, dollar crisis, oil crisis on peoples' minds (maybe we are having a crisis crisis), I am very interested to hear from...

Six wheels on the truck are six wheels. Ten wheels on the truck are ten wheels. If you have six wheels on the truck, I would think it would be legal to use the six-wheel-or-less lanes. Do I know this conclusively? No, but if an officer of the law disagrees and cites you, I do not believe it...

We have driven in heavy rain with the new Airtabs and (sorry) noticed zero difference in visibility. I have read driver comments about Airtab-improved rear visibility in rain, and do not discount them. It's just that our truck had no rear visibility issues in the first place. I don't know why...

We noticed a slight (very slight) handling improvement, yes. I do not discount reports given by other drivers of major handling improvments. Other trucks we drove before this one were buffeted quite a bit by the wind. Our present truck has 10 balanced and aligned wheels on the ground and...

Thats a new point in favor of a rollup (overhead) door. You might forget to close it, but at least you will still have it when you realize the mistake. :D

We have only driven 7,000 miles with the Airtabs on. MPG for those 7,000 miles has improved about 0.4 over the previous 7,000 but we are drawing no conclusions from that. Reefer and generator use vary from load to load and layover to layover. Main engine fuel consumption varies with terrain and...

We are in Frankfort, KY and are not bored. You are not crossing paths with us because we do not hang out in truck stops when we have time to spare. At the moment, we are in an RV park. Diane is taking a brisk walk. I am servicing my EO addiction now (perhaps something that relieves boredom) and...

Now that we have had a number of offers under the new dispatch system, we have some of the same issues that have been voiced here. We will provide feedback to our carrier but it will be nothing different than what they have already heard from others. There is nothing wrong the the new...

Not much to tell. Early in our career, someone, I do not recall who, told me of a driver who did not raise the landing gear before leaving the dock. Oops! Raising the landing gear seemed like a good idea even to a newbie like me, and even before I heard the story, but that story and others led...

There is a growing body of research that demonstrates people talking on cell phones while driving are as much a hazard on the road as drunk drivers. Both are equally distracted. That is true of people using hand-held or hands-free cell phone devices. For that reason, I limit my behind-the-wheel...

Yes, but not my hands. Yet another case where one can learn from the mistakes of others instead of his own.

That is possible, yes, and it would not be just FedEx Custom Critical doing so. All owner-operators that lease trucks to a carrier are affected, as are all carriers that operate their own trucks. The California Trucking Association is supportive of CARB in this instance. Being made up of mostly...

Yes. When landing gear is lowered, the truck is more stable, making it easier and safer for a forklift to enter when the truck is backed up to a loading dock. On rare occasions, when winds exceed 50 mph and you are stopped to sleep, landing gear can help keep the truck stable and help you catch...

This might be a good time to ask. Those of you who have a 24' box, how often do you actually use all 24 feet? I know people talk about maximizing their opportunities by choosing a 24' box over 22', but in the real world, how often does 24 feet actually come into play, and just how did it do so?