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They did a better job of reacting to the courts and the politically powerful special interest groups operating behind the scenes; pressures that will continue to be exerted and keep the rules in play. Having been fiercly and professionally active in politics for 10 years, including interacting...

Mobile Mancave...LOL!:D

The people who are telling you to get a lawyer are correct. This is serious. You have been cited. It's not about who is right or wrong. It's not about saving money. It's not about how you feel. It's about defending yourself and your career against that citation. Talking to the DA is also a good...

One solution may be for customers to add a box or canister of HAZMAT freight to the non-HAZMAT but secure shipment that allows the drivers to secure the load 24/7. A similar approach is already taken under HAZMAT rules where, to avoid a negative situation, a one piece HAZMAT load becomes a two...

That's exactly right. It's the customers' problem. The FMCSA has made it obvious that they don't care even a tiny bit about economic opportunities and careers of truck drivers who provided secure services under the old rules. If a problem exists, it falls to the customers and marketplace to...

You have more faith than I do. Who's going to solve the problem? The same people who created it in the first place? They were told of the issues in the listening sessions and in other ways. Having other fish to fry, they simply ignored this vital input. If I was a general just now becoming...

The lectures are gifts from Diane. She bought sets of CDs from Barnes and Noble which were then imported onto our iPod. iTunes has a section called iTunes U that offers a number of lectures on various topics. I have not explored those. I think a number of colleges have their own podcasts that...

When a long drive lies ahead, a travel mug of green tea is prepared. I will often drive for hours with no radio or music on, enjoying the quiet time. Driving is fulfilling in itself. Otherwise, live radio is used to catch the news. Our iPod is hard wired into the truck's sound system. I will...

I have not yet reviewed the changes in depth. As a team, Diane and I have more flexibility than solo drivers and I believe we will be able to adapt. One thing that jumps out from my first read is the requirement that the 34 hour reset must now take place over two nighttime sleeping periods...

I looked for it but could not find it. Do you have a link? A Google News search for UPS and UPS bad delivery brings no news story up. As before, a YouTube search of UPS turns up a few UPS bad delivery videos (FedEx has more too), but nothing has the legs that the FedEx monitor toss video has...

FedEx put a response on YouTube which makes sense. The message is right. The company has taken reasonable actions to make things right with the customer, voiced the Purple Promise (which many customers do not know), move the driver out of a customer contact role and to use the bad delivery as a...

1. Sleep management. Nothing is fun when you are tired and it goes without saying that driving tired is dangerous. Diane and I make sleep management our TOP priority. Nothing is more important. In addition to the safety benefits, you just feel better when you are well rested. That's good for the...

Not really. A picture shows what it shows, but what it means is subject to interpretration and denial. The FedEx video that was first mentioned in this thread, does it speak about an errant driver or about the company that has so overworked, over-scheduled and over-stressed the poor man that...

That is a subordinate benefit. It would have been better if the video had never been posted at all. When a trucker is killed in a serious wreck, we are all reminded to drive safe, but it would have been better if the wreck never happened.

Most drivers already care about how they do the job and no carrier I know tolerates behavior like that. Posting a video like that does nothing to change driver behavior because most already do a good job and those who don't won't care. In this case, the messenger did more harm than good.

Picking up on the cameras are everywhere theme, when you view the FedEx video first mentioned in this thread, notice the others that are listed on the right hand side of the YouTube web page; UPS kick, FedEx launches, UPS throws, FedEx fail, etc. Why the above video went viral and the others...

This YouTube video has gone viral. This single act done by an individual driver coming out of a big-logo FedEx van has been viewed by over one million people so far. There is no telling how many shipping decisions have been made, not against the offending driver, but against the company whose...

Home in Minnesota for the holidays. Truck is being repaired while we are here (deer strike, cosmetic damage).

Diane and I have used Comdata with FedEx Custom Critical and later T-Chek when the carrier changed cards. At Landstar we use Comdata. While we can always complain about fees and procedures, these cards all worked without major issues. Note that card rules vary with carriers. The Comdata deal...

Be careful about how you interpret driver turnover statistics. From a single carrier's point of view, a driver who comes in and quits in the same year has a 100 percent turnover rate. But where does the driver go? Does he or she leave the business or go to another carrier? Carrier turnover...