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>Why is the A Team taking potshots at Dave. Dave has >verifable 20 years experience, A Team has never owned a >truck,been in this business for maybe 2 years but A Team >puts dave down.Makes no sense. I'm not taking potshots at DaveKC the man. I respectfully question the validity of the...

Poopookitty's comments got me to thinking. It seems a month does not go by without someone posting about freight that is seemingly slow, rates that are seemingly low, and money that is seemingly not there. In many cases, the posters may be dead on, but how can you know for sure? A technique...

>Yes I think you figured it out. Yes there is more to it. >Alot of work and alot of investment that you likely won't >find a return from. If you are running at double the rate of >other expediters, then you would have a valid arguement. In >the days of Roberts Express , yes, in todays...

>I guess my long winded point is; dont think you will make a >fortune in W.G., because it probably wont happen. It may be >hard to believe, but not all W.G. loads are good paying >loads. It's probably from too much competition and cut >throating. When that happens, it's the drivers and the...

Inside your box are a series of probes that record >the temp at different parts of the box. Each one about 1/3 >down the length of the roof. The probes are attached to a >data recorder which records the temp in the box. .... Allow me to add, there is the cost of the reefer itself, and over...

>The demand for T-Val is getting bigger everyday. If you do >not mind running on the east coast its even better. Add to >that the fact that we are the only game in town and that FDA >is making more and more drug companies have a paper trail.I >went into T val in December and it has been the...

>Averages of $1.10 or less per mile on a white glove equipped >truck isn't anything to get excited about. Certainly a place >to be careful in buying one of these units. Your situation >is not that uncommon, and validates many posts with regards >to buying trucks with reefers ect...

EZPass is available from a number of states. Among the issuing states, discounts vary from the full toll you'd pay at toll booths. The discounts are not the same. State A might offer a deeper discount on one of their roads than you might get if you signed up for the service with one or more...

>As mentioned by RichM, Ateam was never mentioned in this >post and chose to respond. But since he did, I thought his >experiences would be of value to people contemplating a >truck build. Since his truck build has been going on for >almost two years, surely he would have some input helpful...

>Obviously based on his response to Dave it must be an >extremely sensitive issue. Life is too short for this sort >of stuff. RichM is correct. While the end result of our truck building project continues to hold great promise, the project has not been without it's emotional ups and downs...

>================================================ >With regards to your specific truck build, one of your >vendors described it as a "disasterous nightmare". I should >have been more specific. >=============================================== Most interesting to learn DaveKC that you are...

OK DaveKC. I responded and gave you your chance to have your your say. Going forward, you build your trucks and I'll build mine.

>How many have experienced a truck build disaster? This has >come up on more than one occassion when someone has decided >to build a truck from scratch rather than buying a spec >truck. Sometimes it is just ordering a truck from a dealer >that has no experience with expediting. Lawrence had...

RichM is right. Driving more hours than HOS allows is not an asset in expediting, it is a liability. Even if you are in a cargo van where logging is not required, few people in the expediting industry will respect you for exceeding HOS. Most will either condemn that activity to your face, shake...

>A Team,How did your new truck build turn out? Why do you ask? I sense yet another pot shot comming. You have a bad habbit of injecting questions or comments about me personally that have little or nothing to do with the topic raised by the posters that start the threads. It's a habbit that...

This news story left my wife and I with a feeling of satisfaction. Thought I'd share it for others to enjoy too. http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/05/541.asp http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/15745 http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/12189563.htm Newspaper links often...

the www.truckpaper.com makes it easy to search for particular kind of trucks and they list a lot of trucks overall. It would take some time and effort, but you could use those ads to build a database and then do your analysis on it. Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet program would work, as...

>OK! Lawrence has approved the project. We'll have a business >planning feature story done in time for the EO show, and >we'll create an expediter's business planning resource >center on the web that features real-world business planning >info from real-world expediters. > >Watch the Open...

It's not unusual for people to become expediters with no truck driving experience whatsoever. When my wife and I started, we had none. The two-dozen fleet owners we interviewed before selecting one all said they'd bring us on. At that time, our carrier had (and still has, I believe) a...

It's no secret, and the company does not deny, that some Landstar agents run their own fleets. It should be naturally assumed that an agent that owns his or her own trucks will load them first and with the best loads they can before looking for other trucks to haul the same freight. LEA drivers...