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Fuzzy, Most drivers could easily answer your questions from their own experiences. I'd be happy to do so, but it would take a lot of time to type it all out. My wife and I have been at less than a year but the questions you ask are straightforward and within our ability to answer. I'd be happy...

RE: Looking for Input on carriers Landstar, Con Wa Sounds like you are doing good research. FedEx Custom Critical is a major player in this market too with many happy drivers. Is their a reason you are not considering them?

dieseldoctor, I admire your skill set...carpentry, metal work, and computers too! From the pictures, your handiwork seems top notch...good fit and finish, pieces precicely placed, quality materials. You are an innovative, original thinker. It's a pleasure to view your ongoing project. Thank you...

I've seen a few trucks like that on the road. From an expediting freight standpoint, they strike me as very well configured. It will get the job done. It's a truck that will give you several years of good service (if well maintained of course), haul just about any kind of expedited freight that...

I kept searching and found this much. Might be worth a call. Rodriguez Expedited Freight Systems Inc 16010 Michigan Ave Dearborn MI 48126 Phone: 800-718-0066, Fax: 313-295-2149

I don't want to send you on a goose chase, but here's some info for what it's worth (probaly not much). I was driving thru TX one night and an expediter truck with no markings passed me by. I greeted the driver on the CB. He said he was a retired school teacher from Michigan running for a...

The Co-Pilot sales literature talks about a toll avoidance routing feature in the product and claims the product will pay for itself with that feature. As we've gained experience driving on the East coast where tolls are frequent and become more familiar with the area, going off our carrier's...

We use Delorme with its GPS drvice and find it to be well worth the money. It is awesome to be able to see where you are, especially in New York city. The product significantly reduced the stress of New York City driving. But as others have mentioned, Delorme is a product for cars, not trucks...

Congratulations on your new truck purchase! Please DO keep us posted, especially about the Sprinter. Since my wife and I run in a striaght truck, we've not done an in depth analysis on that vehicle. All I know for sure is I LOVE that van. I think it's one of the coolest concepts and coolest...

JM a/k/a hotfr8recruiter, Outstanding post! Thank you for sharing the detail you did. As FedEx CC drivers my wife and I get to chat almost daily with other FedEx CC drivers we meet on the road. It's a rare treat to visit and compare notes with drivers from other carriers. The info you provided...

Great tip! I recently became aware of the cost of kingpin replacements and spec'ed a heavier duty front end on the new truck we're ordering partly for that reason. Do you think they'll EVER fix that road in Detroit (Windsor bridge). It has to be one of the worst roads in North America. When...

Smart driver! Asking BEFORE you buy.

Perhaps we're saying the same thing in two different ways. I take great satisfaction in knowing that when dispatchers pull our (wife and my) numbers, they see stats that put us above average in the fleet. I'm far more concerned with the way our numbers look on HQ's computer screen than with our...

I see EO has an article about FAST: http://www.expeditersonline.com/artman/publish/article_001699.html I'd love to hear other driver experiences on this. As one that sits in the slow line, sometimes for hours, waiting to cross the U.S./Canada border, and watches with envy other trucks whiz...

As I read the code, it's 13% of the 18,000 lbs. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/gl_codes_detail.pl?code=32-6-26

We identified our carrier of choice first and then interviewed affiliated fleet owners.

Allow me to add the word "work." The drivers that stay in service most tend to make more money than those that stay in service less. Your load acceptance practices also enter in. Regarding your question about the state of the industry, note that whatever the industry state may be, there are...

RodeHawg69 said, "....>1. Company has a "cold" attitude...you're a number, not a person...." This reply is not about TriState or the other items in RodeHawg69's post. It's about the "treat you like a number" issue; or on the flip side, "treat you like family" issue. We chose our carrier...

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It just now hit me that the Terry and Rene I see posting here are the same folks my wife and I met at the 2003 Mid America Trucking Show. At the time, we were researching a career change into trucking and had not yet heard about expediting. We stumbled upon the Freightliner of Knoxville exhibit...