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Your situational awareness and willingness to act are commendable. When you are being followed by a suspicious vehicle, the right thing to do is call the police.

Where are you seeing this was a Panther driver?

It sounds to me that you got this far not because you focused on the problems but because you focused on the solutions.

It's always nice to see trucks whose owners have pride in their ride.

I'm not familiar with that number. What is the statistic? What is the trend? I would think that population growth is a factor too.

Diane and I join in praying this prayer.

At Landstar, that information is often provided by the agents who dispatch us without us asking. When it is not, we need only ask if we want to know. The shippers will sometimes tell us too. My favorite was a time in June when a shipper told us to get it there by September.

We're not missing your point. We're hearing it loud and clear but simply do not agree. This is expediting. Contracts that carriers make with shippers include penalties in the form of price reductions if the freight is late. While there are many reasons that a load may be late, it does not...

That depends on the carrier you are leased to and the amount if information about loads that carrier and its dispatchers/agents are willing or allowed to share. After Diane and I changed carriers, but continued to haul much of the same freight for the same customers, we found that a whole lot...

It was explained to me that the purpose of the 30 day wait is to discourage people from signing up at a gym that happens to be running a special deal and then going home to use their local gym regularly. We truckers are a different kind of customer who will join a gym, probably close to home...

Congratulations, redytrk. Love those photos.

Very few because very few expedite carriers have been in business 24 years.

It was nice and quiet last night but when the city woke up it became evident that it might be a bit early to name this place Serenity Corner. Train traffic increased and it was not whistle free. Gone are the loud railroad crossing blasts (two long, one short, one long). Heard in the day but...

That's one for the books.

Situation resolved! Now that people are back at work this Monday morning, calls were made. Our dispatching agent advises that the shipper was confused and the cargo control equipment we have on our truck is sufficient. Special thanks for the help and good humor offered by: billg27, zorry...

That's the way it is with us expediters; living large in truck stop parking lots, savoring the quality of life improvements as they come!

Diane and I arrived at the Ontario, CA, TA East last night to find the usual collection of expediter trucks parked in the front lot. Different is the train noise. It's gone. A railroad bridge has been built over Milliken Ave. so the trains no longer need to blow their loud horns when crossing...

Thank you, pearlpro. I checked these web sites. BC Wire Rope & Rigging is in the Los Angeles area but its web site does not list the straps with J hooks; flat hooks yes, J hooks no. I now have several online options for ordering the straps but time is short. If we cannot find the straps in or...

Maybe you still can. I sent you a private message.

If that need arose, we have Monday to work with, a team in this truck, and freshly reset log books. We'd go get the straps ourselves. Besides, finding a cargo van that runs cheap would be more difficult than finding the straps we are after. Everyone knows how protective van drivers are of...