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I agree with the first part but not the second. It is the business of the executive branch to regulate this business because congress has given them the authority and responsibility to do so. DOT is a cabinet-level entity in the executive branch. That said, the FMCSA, an agency of the DOT, is...

“when life throws you lemons you make lemonade.” That presumes that you are somehow obligated or trapped in a way that requires you to keep the lemons. Additional options include hurling the lemons back at the people who dumped them on you (fight the rules), ignore the lemons (violate the...

You can believe anything you wish. The facts are reported in my post #4 above. You are absolutely correct. I have never said, suggested or implied any such thing. But when I do know something about the company and post it here, readers can rely on it to be accurate.

I'd be happy to if I knew who he is, but you did not identify him or provide contact information so the duty -- to the extent it is a duty -- is yours. Otherwise you can leave him alone and let him continue to believe and tell others something that is not true. Friends don't let friends go...

I'm glad you did. Now you can be a myth buster and enlighten your BCO friend.

If that was true, I would have heard about it long ago. I am a Landstar Express America BCO and have posted and blogged extensively about Landstar for the last two years. Indeed, the opposite is true. People at Landstar headquarters have requested my permission to republish some of my posts on...

It is fun to trace this route with Google Maps. Talk about layering history! The Lincoln Highway passes through Philadelphia and runs within a few blocks of Independence Hall. Follow it a bit further and find yourself in Gettysburg, PA. Think about the cars this road was build for and there...

What is DHPL?

I called and asked if it was OK to park in the grassy area at HQ and was told yes. At least a dozen other trucks were there when we arrived and more arrived after we did. If there is a rule against parking overnight at HQ, it is poorly communicated. That said, had we not been scheduled to...

Work, play and the relationship between them mean different things to different people. For me, work and play must be or be close to the same thing. I've never kept a job I did not like. If work stops being fun, I find different work. Work and play are not different because one is fun and the...

I can only speak from my experience. Diane and I were there two years ago and again this month. Both times were the same. After we signed in with the guard in the lobby and were given our badge, we had the freedom to go anywhere in the building we wished, including to the company president's...

Bruno is not incorrect, but I would not go so far as to say that if I do not forgive FedEx Custom Critical it will eat at me for years to come. That is because it does not eat at me now, at least most of the time. When we felt betrayed, cheated by and lied to by FedEx Custom Critical when they...

Paying attention to history like this makes expeiting that much more fun and life on the road that much more interesting.

There is more to it than that. If you change your legal residence to Florida, as Diane and I are in the process of doing, the truck will be taxed under that state's rules, which in Florida is much more expensive than in Minnesota. Florida has no state income tax but they are very good at taxing...

I know of no one who does that 100 percent of the time but Diane and I came close in our early years in expediting and it was our lifestyle choice to do so. After one year in a fleet-owner truck, and then knowing that we loved the business and life on the road, we sold or otherwise disposed...

Some do. Some don't. Some run within a state. Some cross state lines. These HOS rules changes will affect trucks differently. Exactly how the big picture will look when they go into effect remains to be seen. My point remains the same. We cannot predict the impact industry wide based on...

“The HOS rule limits the use of the ‘34-hour restart’ to once a week [and] thus limits a driver’s work week to an average of 70 hours in seven days, compared to the current rule, which allows up to approximately 82 hours when the restart is used more than once in a seven-day period,” Ferro...

You may be right, but keep in mind that expediting is a tiny, tiny slice of the greater trucking industry, and team expediting is a slice of that. Our experience is not typical. The new rules will require trucks to stop for thirty minutes when they were not required to do so before. They also...

Of course no one should put such a passenger in their truck if a high-value or otherwise sensitive load was on board. If the truck is loaded with such freight, it goes without saying that you would observe all security protocols. I'm not talking about putting a fast one over on an important...

Your post is noted.