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  1. OntarioVanMan

    List of Expediting Companys

    As an esteemed company owner once said....it all about VOLUME....and WE vans are a COMMODITY....acquire as many loads in a week as possible....500 vans = 500 loads HE makes money....be darned if the van owner does...we are even silly enough thru assorted fees that some actually pay clowns like...
  2. OntarioVanMan

    List of Expediting Companys

    Most all on your list have too many vans, sir.... that is one reason you'll find many sub species/ mom and pop carriers out there...all wanting to re-invent the wheel and like Burger King...have their way....
  3. OntarioVanMan

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    Imagine the uproar...when Henry Ford introduced the assembly line....lots of jobs lost....progress marches on and we just have to adapt as a species...has nothing to do with being an American, nor Canadian or specific nationality...we are all members of the human race...
  4. OntarioVanMan

    List of Expediting Companys

    No...But I'd like to delete some from that list....LOL
  5. OntarioVanMan

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    I used to pick up at the Toronto Star printing plant....mostly robotics....that newspaper is not touched till the carrier lifts the bundles....stacked, counted out, strapped and palletized even a layer of cardboard between the layers and then stretch wrapped and robot takes it to the programmed...
  6. OntarioVanMan

    December Locations

    should have named it Layoutshooter then....LOL....
  7. OntarioVanMan

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    There was a mention that this might have been a hoax by Amazon in support of Cyber Monday sales....tho the tech is there whether practical or workable....????
  8. OntarioVanMan

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    and the problem with that is?.....who is going to make these drones....who is going to program them and or repair them?.....guess truck driving won't be the #1 job much longer...have your grandkids stay in school and get the appropriate education to deal with the future...
  9. OntarioVanMan

    December Locations

    The weather is NOT co operating at all....storm CLEON.....what kind of name is that?
  10. OntarioVanMan

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    and they've had remote control trains in the switching yards for years now...
  11. OntarioVanMan

    The Future of Package Delivery (and Expediting?)

    I think you are a few hundred years ahead of yourself on some of your ideas....I can see self driving trucks on the interstates like where Ohio has those assembly areas in the interchanges to put triples together....
  12. OntarioVanMan

    Canada Canada discovers the coe

    it is a company truck....as I said above....the driver is usually home for the 34 out of the distribution center.... at least a Walmart driver always has a sleeping spot....
  13. OntarioVanMan

    Canada Canada discovers the coe

    I see a smaller bunk area shaded in behind cab....them company drivers don't "usually" do long haul and work out of the same distribution center for the most part.....so a big bunk would not be high on the "I need" list....probably use them on the company trucks...
  14. OntarioVanMan

    It's a Merry Christmas Month

    Dallas area..LMAO and he calls that lucky......OMG....lol
  15. OntarioVanMan

    December Locations

    needing to get home and yet another named storm in my way....that makes me 0-2 this year...:(
  16. OntarioVanMan

    December Locations

    good move....looks like its going to get nasty up that way.....they are talking 18-24 inches....ugh
  17. OntarioVanMan

    December Locations

    In the Taylor area....waiting for westward travel.....winter storm is also headed this way....1st stop Bison SD and heading south east....SNOW predicted for Memphis by weeks end
  18. OntarioVanMan

    What Cargo Van Companies doesn't have restrictions on van year.

    Lets see...this guys wants to work under the radar... no W2 or 1099, put on a 10 or worse old van... grab himself a couple of brokers....really? They'll be no advice pending from this old fart....nor welcome wagon....thats the way I am rolling on this one....yellow Penske material....
  19. OntarioVanMan

    December Locations

    In Toledo getting a couple new tires... And then westward bound...
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