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I do not believe it is slow all over for the reasons I stated above, but for the purposes of discussion, let's say that you are right, Linda, and it is slow all over. If it is slow all over, it will be even slower for the FDCC percentage-paid trucks that are now being passed over by a...

The Joplin Petro recently expanded its facilities and had their grand opening on Friday and Saturday. Talk about timing! Story here

Dry box trucks will get hurt too as reefer contractors decide to play in the dry box arena. As high paying reefer loads decline in frequency, and the need to pay the bills asserts itself, it won't take much for a number of reefer contractors to go after the freight they were previously willing...

You served that stranger well.

This is more of a rant than anything else. I'm sitting at a truck stop in weather that could not be better for sitting and sleeping in a truck without running the heater or AC. Yet a walk up and down the rows will show numerous trucks idling their fuel away. Why do drivers idle their trucks on...

I do not know the exact number of reefer straight trucks in the fleet or ER-units either, or the exact ratio of flat-rate trucks to percentage-paid trucks. I have a general sense of the numbers and could get exact by making phone calls, just as you could; if you can find someone at FDCC who will...

I do not get your meaning. What/who are drivers "at the bottom line?"

I'm not going by driver reports alone. My belief that business is up across the board is based partly on company reports from two competing carriers about how their fleets are doing company wide. These carriers have few reefer trucks in their fleet. I forgot to mention that in my post above...

This fits with what a dealer told me a few days ago. Lenders who are willing to finance expediter trucks are requiring higher down payments because expediters are more difficult to move if they are reposessed. It's easy to get rid of a tractor. The market for expediter straight trucks is...

Doing a quick Extranet check, and comparing two similar in-service time periods year over year: April 1, 2010 - May 21, 2010: Runs: 22 Pay per load mile: $2.67 Gross revenue (including fuel surcharge): $X April 1, 2011 - May 21, 2011: Runs: 21 Pay per loaded mile: $2.47 Gross revenue...

"We can only offer what the customer calls in" is the explanation I received from some of the company people I talked to when researching this. Only one person at the company let on why the customers are calling for company-owned trailers. The reason is pricing incentives. Pricing incentives...

Talking with a Landstar Express America team today, they have been as busy as they want to be. In their dry box straight truck, their May gross revenue month to date exceeded ours (reefer straight truck). Their revenue per mile figure for all miles (loaded, deadhead, personal, whatever) is about...

We drove past that truck after the fire was out. If there were any investigators there, we did not see them. It did not appear to be the kind of a scene where a fatality occured.

In an F5 tornado, all bets are off. Note that the article talked about F1 and F2. One problem with a tornado is that it does not reveal its category while approaching or passing through.

Mention is made that cars generally don't flip in a tornado but trucks would be more likely to, would they not? Less aerodynamic. Greater surface area high off the ground for the wind to act on.

Methinks a troll is among us.

You would not have to argue much as I would tend to agree, however because it is so much easier to wander unaware into expediting with a van than with a more costly truck that is more likely to be inspected and with which log books are required, the phenomenon is more pronounce in the van arena...

That's a difficult question to answer. I have picked up countless, business-useful tips and tricks from a wide variety of Open Forum members, including those who may have only a few posts to their credit.

In other words, people who have not yet learned enough about trucking to know that GPS is an optional accessory with built-in limitations not a necessity. You can market a program that trucker wannabees do not need as long as your targets do not know they do not need it. Seems predatory to me.