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I feel your pain, Brother.

We too are very pleased with our A.R.I. sleeper quality and the before-sale and after-sale support they provide. These are small things, but they speak volumes about how they think of their customer's needs. When you go to A.R.I. for service, they provide overnight parking places with free...

Does it not bother you even a little bit that your parking brake knob is upside down? That's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.

Leo, Greg's words were, "Until you have experience with either being a fleet owner or running a business with employees,...." You and he are correct in that I have never been a fleet owner. It was the "running a business with employees" that I reacted to. It remains the case that Greg does...

>Phil, >Until you have experience with either being a fleet owner or >running a business with employees, you haven't heard a lot. You limited experience is with you, Diane and your truck >(being a driver - I think you would be surprised at what is >asked and said. Like, duh! Maybe it's OK...

In the worst of times and the best of times, some expediters fail and others succeed (whatever success means to them). Bad times are less forgiving that good times but some people still succeed where others do not. I would not advise you away from the business for the sole reason that the...

RE: Saving Money By Extending Your Oil Change Inte My question now is, if you have a >bypass filter, and you also do the oil analysis and it comes >out with no problems, then do you still need to do the >complete oil change? In our case, the answer is yes, we would still need to do the...

>I think alot of drivers or owners view this as a job and >expect apay check for being inservice That is a new one on me. It has never entered our minds to be paid for simply being in service (available and waiting for freight). Not to disbelieve your statement, but to find out more about it...

by Chip Heath and Dan Heath) I see it at FedEx Custom Critcial and in many businesses. The top executives have studied the industry and business in general for many years. They become experts and adopt expert language to communicate with their peers. Phrases like "value proposition," "six...

RE: U.S. Economy to?? Once again, Greg, you have worked our way down a thread to the point where I doubt that many people care much about what either one of us say. You lost my interest several times in your latest reply. You are going to complex detail and multiple subjects. Diane and I got...

RE: U.S. Economy to >“While the fed can have an impact at certain levels, >fed-imposed changes take a while to filter through the >economy. So, I agree with your main point.†> >Phil, I don’t know what planet you are from I am from planet earth. but from my >educated standpoint...

RE: U.S. Economy to "Slow Noticeably" in Fourth Qu >Frankly, ya gotta just keep doing what you do to make it out >here. No preparation from a fed bureaucrat is going to make >things any different out here. While the fed can have an impact at certain levels, fed-imposed changes take a while...

Dave, The points you raise are what I was getting at. What I do not understand is what Greg means by "should."

That is a difficult question to answer because off duty or sleeper time in the log book can be spent in different ways: (1) in service waiting for an offer, (2) in service, dispatched on a load and waiting to pick it up (like dispatched on Friday for a Monday pickup), (3) out of service to rest...

Greg, When you say fuel surcharges "should" be at $0.35 a mile right now, what do you mean exactly? Do you expect carriers to provide free fuel? At 10 mpg, $0.35 per maile equates to $3.50, or the price of a full gallon of fuel. Not quite as much at 8 mpg but just how much money do you feel you...

I forgot above, we are raising the minimum pay per mile at which we will accept a load.

Earlier this evening, we fueled up and paid $455 to fill our tanks. That is a "bit" higher than usual, but with oil approaching $100 per barrel, I fear that $500 fuel stops will become the norm. For those of us with a carrier that provides a fuel surcharge, the pain is dulled a bit by the extra...

Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. economy is likely to ``slow noticeably'' this quarter while high commodity prices and a weaker dollar may stoke inflation ``for a time.'' Chairman Bernanke spoke to a congressional committee today, recapping recent...

While fuel surcharges rise as fuel prices rise, and while that money is collected from shippers and passed on to the trucks (except where fleet owners may pay for fuel and have other arrangements with their drivers), shippers increased fuel prices impact shippers, consignees and their downline...

Nightthrasher, If you have not already done so, see "Introduction to Expediting" at: http://www.expeditersonline.com/downloads/introduction.pdf You have already discovered the Open Forum, which is a good step. Keep reading. Read at least one year's worth of posts to get a sense of what people...