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As regular readers know, I know little about cargo van/Sprinter expeiters. I am intrigued by your comment, though. Are you including Sprinters when you refer to vans?

Diane and I are with you on that. We have been talking with other carriers and none on our short list requires uniforms. If we moved to either one, we would quickly brand ourselves with that carrier by creating a uniform of some sort. We would find out where the office people get their company...

Pestilence: : something that is destructive or pernicious As in the excessive number of low quality van drivers and equipment that OVM first referenced. As in the type that would be culled from the herd, to use OVM's metaphor.

But are not CV runners like rabbits? You can kill off a bunch but it only takes a cycle or two to restore the pestilence. With entry barriers so low, what else would expect but to see a continuious flow of unqualified and unprepared people and vehicles from whatever field they left into the...

I spoke last week with an embittered (embittered!) fleet owner who was furious that we are being made to pay $16 a week for these data loggers when few if any of the promised beneifts come our way. We are doing everything now that we did before. He was also furious that his trucks were being...

It did not go without notice that calibrations changed to annual from semi-annual when FDCC started paying for the calibrations.

How do you mean exactly? Where do you see a slide?

Yours is a meaningful post to those who know you but meaningless to those of us who do not. I'd be interested to know more if you care to share it. 1. What kind of a rig did you drive? 2. How long were you with Express-1? 3. What exactly led you to the decision to leave not only your carrier...

I hear that. Having now used the new Qualcomm for a while there is one thing that I like over the old system. That is the ability to send and receive messages under trees, fuel island canopies and other sheltered areas. But given the additional problems the new systems bring us and the...

These questions are just insulting. You are talking in a forum that includes numerous expediters who make convention center and similar delivers in New York City as a regular course of their work. Some use GPS as an aid. Others including Diane and me, turn off our GPS when in NYC because we...

I'm not a fleet owner or an employer who hires drivers but if I was, I would prefer that a prospective driver tell me that he or she can read a map and navigate anywhere at anytime without using GPS. I think you have things turned around. GPS is not central to anything. It is an accessory, an...

This is the first I have heard about a straight truck flat rate program. Did I not get the memo? Was this announced and I missed it? Thanks for sharing the info. EO members benefit their colleagues once again! Two questions: 1. When you say you were told of the program, who told you? 2. I...

It's a nice, happy-talk post about California but more detail would be helpful for those of us who are WG qualified, can also haul dry box loads and are newly concerned about the nature of California freight. Diane and I could run the wheels off the truck if we ran cheap. Is that the secret...

We are done digging into this unless something drastic changes and prompts the need for more info. Our Plans A, B and C are set. Time to shift our focus back onto day-to-day work and enjoying the summer.

Is the plot thickening or is it becoming more clear? Contractors are piecing together the puzzle, each in their own way, and deciding or not deciding their next move, also each in their own way. I hope everyone is able to navigate their way through these changes and come out OK.

Yes, he got back in his truck. One of the other driver's keys worked.

It can be very entertaining and satisfying to speculate about what is on management's mind or about what someone was thinking or what the motives are. Entertaining and satisfying yes, productive no. I have spent very little time thinking or writing about why our carrier is doing what it is...

Part of what makes a CR-unit a CR-unit is 12 feet of space in the box for cargo. That's six skids. FDCC requires a 14 foot box on C and CR-units, reasoning that the front two feet is used for freight handling equipment storage. Our box is 16 feet long inside diminsion. If needed, we could use...

Tiny FDCC was once a self-standing operating company within the larger FedEx Corporation. That changed some time ago when FDCC became a subsidiary of FedEx Freight, which is a much larger operating company within the FedEx Corporation. The entity buying the trailers is FedEx Custom Critical. I...

I commend your discipline. Diane and I are on our way back east under load and will do the same as you going forward; namely, decline load offers that take us west unless we are pre-dispatched to return (though few if any such pre-dispatches are expected). Thinking ahead, it is going to be...