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We left FedEx CC for Landstar in 2010. I get the implation you are trying to make but my main point is sound. A load board is only as good as the integrity of the company that runs it.

Diane and I left expeding in December, 2013. You know that and it is disclosed in my "Retired Expediter" tag and my signature. In our three years with Landstar, there was the occasional canceled load, but it was never a bad-faith act like we saw at FedEx CC. And it never happened that we had...

This new FedEx CC load board may help expose the myth that all FCC freight is expedited freight. The truth is many of their loads are booked well in advance and there is no good reason to wait for the last minute to dispatch such a load to a truck and to insist that the truck rush to the pickup...

Bring enough money to the new endeavor to support yourself away from home for at least 60 days with no other revenue coming in. You are not likely to be stranded 60 days without revenue but you need this kind of cushion to react to any emergency or unanticipated situations that develop...

A tornado watch is an early warning. A tornado warning issued when there is no tornado turns the warning into a joke, thereby reducing the usefulness of a real warning of a real tornado in the future.

You are correct. Part of it is the totally false tornado warning they put out here a couple days ago. Part of it was the elderly-woman gym member (in Port Orange Florida) who cam in yesterday swearing she saw snow flurries out her window that morning. And part of it is the spirit of fear and...

ttruck, the post of mine that you quote was posted in Oct, 2013. That was a long time ago and much has changed since then. Much of what was said then may not apply today.

There is talk in the FedEx Custom Critical forum about a load board. Just curious. What is the FedEx Custom Critical load board?

A wise expediter you are! The unprepared person's crisis is a routine event for a prepared person.

This Chicken Little/ Boy Who Cried Wolf thing has gone too far too. It has happened at least three times since Diane and I started our new endeavor in Florida that the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings when no tornado existed. It happened again just two days ago. They saw patterns...

Media treatment of the weather is gone beyond ridiculous. It was a storm that produced heavy snow. We were treated to dire descriptions (blockbuster, killer, deadly, massive, paralyzing, etc.). Some of the news outlets teed up their coverage with horror music and scary graphics. Al all-out...

Moot, that Weather Ball post is an awesome memory rush for anyone living in the Twin Cities back then. Everyone in town knew about the Weather Ball and it was often mentioned in conversation.

In trucking, one of the things that transformed the trucker-helping-trucker attitude into something less brotherly today is technology; specifically the smart phone. Truckers do not stop to help truckers like before because there is no need. A trucker in distress can call for help more easily...

News organizations have been talking for two days about the "massive winter storm" that is "barreling" toward Washington DC and other Northeast cities; a storm that is "potentially crippling." When I recall my childhood years in Wisconsin and early adult years in Minnesota, I don't recall that...

This is a great question and great topic. Allow me to add one more to promote deeper thinking. If you set a fitness goal in 2015 and did not achieve it, why was the goal not achieved? If you set a fitness goal for 2016, what needs to change and what will you do different to increase your...

I'm curious to learn more about your Anytime Fitness experience. It almost never happens that people wait for equipment in our Anytime Fitness club. What do you mean by "can't breathe?" Can you say more about the locals wondering who you are? Is this something that happened in one club or in all...

The article is on point, unfortunately. I wonder if motor carriers are going to be forced into these things even if they don't want them. To inspire such an outcome, it will only take a trial lawyer or two to successfully argue the case that the company did not do everything it reasonably could...

You were paying taxes before you got that government subsidized insurance rate. There is no break-even for the country on this. The taxes you pay does not fund your new insurance because the government was already spending more than it takes in. The insurance is an additional expense that...

Nice to see.

Don't assume the insurance pools you refer to are themselves healthy. Obamacare is a political monstrosity founded on political assumptions, not on financial reality. But as it always does, financial reality trumps wishful thinking. Notice that over half of the Obamacare co-ops have failed and...