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  1. ATeam

    Polar Blast 2014 - How Are You Doing?

    P.S. Winter is why profanity was invented.
  2. ATeam

    Polar Blast 2014 - How Are You Doing?

    Our truck has been home in Minnesota with us for a month for Christmas and work on our new business. This last week has been brutal. If the outside temperature went above zero, it was not there for long. It got as low as 22 below. That is very hard on a truck. Doors creak, a tug on the hood...
  3. ATeam

    Madsen Truck Will be Sold Soon

    One more thing to add; our dealer mentioned yesterday that he can help people with financing if financing is needed. We will not be putting a driver in the truck or renting it to somebody or selling it on a contract. It is a quick, clean sale that we seek.
  4. ATeam

    Madsen Truck Will be Sold Soon

    I should add, we're not going to be stupid about the sale price. Naturally, we'd like to get the highest price possible, but it's a truck, not our feelings about it that we are selling. Our dealer is working up a ballpark range now. He will be our guide. The truck will likely sell for its...
  5. ATeam

    Madsen Truck Will be Sold Soon

    A number of EO readers have asked to be notified when our truck will be for sale. Thus this post. Your requests are hereby fulfilled. We planned to sell it after our first fitness club was up and running, a few months from now. The idea was to keep the truck as our Plan B if the gym business...
  6. ATeam

    Career Change in Progress

    While several people have expressed interest, we do not have a buyer yet as it is too early to sell. We want to get the club up and running first and then sell the truck. That will take 2 to 3 months at least. Price-wise, we of course want to get the best price that the market will bear. All we...
  7. ATeam

    Career Change in Progress

    That club closed. We picked up the territory when it did.
  8. ATeam

    How I spent my summer vacation of 2013

    Wow! What an ordeal! I'm sorry you are in these circumstances. Your work ethic and sense of responsibility comes through loud and clear in your post. If you do drive again, your next fleet owner should be glad to have you.
  9. ATeam

    Career Change in Progress

    Early in this thread I promised to provide gym location info once a lease was signed. To fulfill that promise I am providing this link to our newly established Port Orange Anytime Fitness Facebook page. The address and phone number are there and gym details will be posted on an ongoing basis...
  10. ATeam

    FAA to "check" overweight pilots for restful sleep..

    There is something to that. There have been Expos before and after the "shorts Expo," but I know of no single Expo event, exhibit or feature that has been more recollected and persistent than the shorts.
  11. ATeam

    FAA to "check" overweight pilots for restful sleep..

    So at next year's Expo, you'll be wearing Spandex?
  12. ATeam

    FAA to "check" overweight pilots for restful sleep..

    The info (link) Layoutshooter provides about this ME program is interesting. It appears in this piece that the FMCSA is telling doctors that drivers "In team operation, drivers share the driving by alternating 5-hour driving periods with 5-hour rest periods." That was...
  13. ATeam

    The Truth About Expediting in Severe Weather

    A major winter storm is hitting much of the country as I write this. That is nothing new to expediters who have been out here for a while. This post is for newer expediters and expediter wannabees who might think it important to get that expedited load through no matter what. The truth is...
  14. ATeam

    Career Change in Progress

    Well, it took longer than expected but we finally have a lease for space in which to build our first gym. Construction will begin soon. The doors will open two to three months after construction begins. Location: Port Orange, Florida. We just got the news this evening. Details to follow as...
  15. ATeam

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    Diane and I recently toured the factory in which the gym equipment we will purchase is built. All welding there is done by machine. They have people working there who they call welders and who went to school for welding. Their job is to maintain the machines.
  16. ATeam

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    Perhaps, but in most cases, the cases are settled long before they get to a jury trial.
  17. ATeam

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    So far, the only time a Google car has been in an accident of any kind was one time when the human driver was in control. Yes, we can speculate that a robot truck will one day be in an accident and it may even be ruled as preventable. But human truck drivers are in preventable accidents every...
  18. ATeam

    The Latest in Essential Expediter Equipment ... iPhone Panties

    Protects the home button. Helps shippers and consignees remember you. iPhone Panties
  19. ATeam

    Canada Canada discovers the coe

    It grates on one to see your home on the road -- that is your sleeper -- labeled as wasted space. The Walmart guy's anti-driver bias comes through loud and clear.
  20. ATeam

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    With every game-changing development -- electricity, the automobile, the internet, etc. -- society adjusts. There are those who believe the development to be of the devil and others who believe it to be something that will elevate humanity to its highest potential. The development is seen as...
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