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There is no more noble deed than to take care of one's mother and/or father when the need arises.

In a thread started by LDB in the FedEx Custom Critical forum, entitled "Fix the stupid phones," frustrations are voiced. A response follows from a fellow contractor sharing the workaround that contractor developed to ease the burden. I'm with Leo on this one. That phone system was a pain when...

It would not surprise me to learn that the journalist or editor who decided to do that story was tailgated by a truck that scared him, her or a loved one half to death. A four-wheeler will encounter 10,000 trucks on the road and not notice one. The truck that will be remembered and talked about...

I agree with you, chefdennis, but wish to take a softer tone. People who are in difficult circumstances of their own making are still in difficult circumstances. It is a painful thing to fail in a business venture, regardless of how the failure came about. Stern warnings are appropriate for...

That is true to a point, but keep the people in mind who are making truck payments today or servicing other debt based on the freight rates they enjoyed afew years ago. Businesses of all kinds can get wiped out when yesterday's then-valid assumptions are not supported by today's realities...

According to a Mexican blogger and trucker who is up on U.S./Mexico border issues, it is more complicated than that. See: Murder of 15 year old by Border Patrol could have profound effect on U.S. trucker's case (Warning: graphic photo of the dead teen in this report)

Overdrive News Story: Support swells for U.S. trucker detained in Mexico

We have the regular TA card and have never paid much attention to the UltraONE Expediter Club card because in a team-driven straight truck we have always had plenty of fuel credits to get free showers. Am I missing anything by being in a straight truck but not having an UltraOne Expediter Club...

Are there any guidelines or general principles that expediters can can be articulated to help expedite understand the freight market, freight availability, pricing and movement? Brokers and carriers have all kinds of information about shippers and freight. What can the expediters who haul the...

Why can't you cut down a Joshua Tree? Why would you want to?

Then white-collar professionals who got bit by the trucking bug, Diane and I went to the 2003 Louisville truck show to continue researching the trucking industry. We stumbled onto the EO booth there and discovered expediting at that moment. Five months later we were in a fleet owner's truck.

I used to read the General, Truck Talk and Newbies Paradise in that order and then drift at random as the spirit moved. Having recently discovered the New Posts link, I am increasingly using it and reading topics of interest regardless of the forum they are in. Except the Soapbox; with very rare...

The burger-flipping comparison is popular but note that some of the drivers who are willing to run for less than minimum wage do not have what it takes to hold down a minumum wage job. To be a successful burger flipper, you need to bathe, show up for work on time, follow instructions and play...

$0.80 per mile "expedited" freight is showing up not just on load boards where "off-brand" trucks bid at that level. It is coming across Qualcomm screens too. Diane and I remember a time when an incoming load offer on the Qualcomm unit in a FedEx Custom Critical truck (a beep in those days)...

Thanks for the update, Sparky.:)

I don't know the answer to your insurance question. Regarding the damage, I suggest that you put every electrical circuit you can think of to the test, by itself and in conjunction with other circuits. Turn everything on and off, load every circuit up as much as you can and note the results...

See: Experience, shmecksperience

Diane and I were with FedEx Custom Critical for eight years ending in June, 2011. Not once in those eight years were we put out of service for declining a load offer. However, yours is not the first report we have heard of this dispatch practice up in recent months. If it is not supposed to be...

Enjoy the ride! Jones did an especially clever job of hiding the reefer up top, I think. You did not mention about the reefer noise but I expect that the new model is quieter than the old, correct? Sleeper size?

From Fox News: "U.S. embassy officials in Mexico say the Mexican government is charging the trucker arrested last week with 268,000 bullets in Ciudad Juarez with smuggling military ammunition. "An embassy statement Thursday says 27-year-old Jabin Bogan of Dallas is confined to the Villa...