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Re: Expedite Services leaving E-1 That is interesting news. Thank you, DragonLadyTN for sharing it. Have you any comments to share as well? Lots of questions come to mind but I have no info beyond your report.

Of course I would jump in the van and throw it into reverse. This is the 21st Century. Save the tree!

I just checked and the blog is up. I'm behind a few days in blog entries but the page itself works.

A more recent (Feb, 2011) article about this is in Expedite NOW magazine, entitled "CSA Made Easy: You are a Sitting Duck". The link to the FMCSA SMS Results page is cited in the article but when I tried it a few minutes ago I got a server error. This link will also take you to the page. But...

The 600,000 mile number is an attention getter. In your five years of running super singles, have you actually achieved that? Regarding fuel economy claims, if anyone can quantify them, you can. There are no industry studies out there that talk about super singles and straight trucks that I...

On June 21, 2010, you wrote in this thread about a bubble that developed on your wide base single and the difficulties you had in replacing the tire. Was that not a problem? I know you praised the manufacturer for making things right, but the tire did fail, did it not? Super singles have a...

Not to put too fine of a point on this but let me add that our approach -- no alcohol in our truck or bodies ever when we are out on the road -- goes beyond being available or unavailable for dispatch. The truck is our home and the nation our back yard. Be it for dispatch or personal reasons, we...

Hendrix. Also known as a white arrow. Steering Wheel Holder (Wheel Holder): An expediter who is able to drive a truck but fails to grasp important business and safety concepts.

In another thread, The Enemy used the term Butterfly to describe an expediter who moves from company to company without doing homework. That got me to thinking about other terms. Can you add any more? Butterfly: An expediter who moves from company to company without doing homework. Also known...

You are not wrong but the reason Diane and I carry it a step further to say no alchohol in our truck ever (including any in our bodies) when we are out on the road, is that circumstances can quickly change in this business. Say you are at a ball game on a Saturday when you are dispatched to...

If you are tempted to quibble about the law and weasel-word definitions to make it OK to drink when you are out on the road, you are flirting with termination or worse. Forget about the letter of the law and focus on the spirit of the law. It is never good to combine alcohol and vehicles, and...

I knew you would rise to say that and I ask readers to note that davekc left out the part where I said "There was a time when our reefer was a gold mine at FedEx but those days went away, so we did too." The changes at FDCC that prompted us to leave are recent. When TVAL freight and other runs...

One piece of advice is to hang onto your reefer data logger. You know, the one FedEx made you take out of your truck to make room for the FedEx-owned device they required you to put in. It may come in handy. Twice in two days, two different agents called me to ask if we had a data logger in the...

Having been with Landstar for less than two months, it is hardly my place to say welcome aboard, but I'll do so anyway. Welcome aboard! It took Diane and I a few weeks to get into the groove but we have no regrets about making the move.

Most people who enter the business new do so not as drivers of fleet owner trucks but as owner-operators. If you allowed only owner-operators to enter the business and banned all fleet owners, the carriers would adjust their recruiting practices and the flow of new people would continue. The...

We just talked this through and do not agree. As people who had never driven a truck before, we had the information from good research but no idea whether we would like the business or be good at it. Spending a ton of money on a truck to find out would have been too great of a risk to take and...

Interesting question! My very first thought is we would be worse off. I'm remembering how Diane and I entered the business -- as drivers of a fleet owner's truck. Without such an opportunity we might never have entered and learned the business at all.

The regulatory question aside, Express-1 (XPO) is a story stock. A private equity firm is about to inject up to $150 million into XPO with the intent of building it into a multi-billion dollar company. The number of available (and potentially available) shares will be fixed at a certain level...

In an August 4, 2011 press release, entitled "Express-1 Files Definitive Proxy Materials," Express-1 announced that a company name change will be put to a shareholder vote on September 1. If shareholders approve, the new company name will be XPO Logistics, Inc. At the same shareholder meeting...

Diane and I recently changed carriers and Express-1 was among the options considered. While we chose to sign on with Landstar Express America, we were impressed with the openness Express-1 showed in answering our questions. Ask your Express-1 recruiter the pay and miles questions you are...