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When we meet and visit with other teams on the road, most conversations include: "Where are you from?" "How long have you been doing this?" And, "Ain't it aweful about dispatch?" While most drivers have dispatch horror stories to tell, I have yet to meet one that hopes to be a dispatcher some...

Thank you for introducing yourselves and sharing your positive view of expediting. I believe the industry will see many more teams like you (white collar workers becoming expediters) in the near and long term future. My wife and I entered the field from white collar professions with no previous...

The thread title is perfect, "Learning from the mistakes of others." This site and other trucking forums stand as great resrouces for newbies. Newbies like ourselves don't have to learn from our own mistakes. We can learn from the mistakes experienced drivers have made and talked about...

OOPS! Forgot the link to the state publications I mentioned above: Here it is. http://www.dps.state.mn.us/dvs/Registration%20Guide/Guide%20Frame.htm

Your current carrier or the carrier you will run with is the first place to check. Carriers offer varying levels of help with permits, base plates, etc. Check with your carrier first to avoid obtaining permits or doing paperwork yourself that your carrier may already provide. My home state (MN)...

From a report recently issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "A total of 1.4 million injuries and illnesses in private industry required recuperation beyond the day of the incident in 2002...." Truck drivers and nursing aides were the professions with the greatest number of such injuries...

The only thing I suggest is that you plan >you're truck purchase so that it can be modified to meet the >dynamic needs of the industry without too much out of >pocket. Very interesting suggestion. Please elaborate. We like to think we've done our research but you never know for sure. What...

In response to Davekc's and RichM's comments about truck expense, please note that we're not proceeding unaware or unskilled. We know what our expediting revenues and long term costs are. As a former stockbroker and financial planner of eleven years my business planning and financial analysis...