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It is not either all good or all bad. While some expediters are literally starving out here, most are not. Opposite the expediters who are starving there are those who have found the life and work to be the easiest, most lucrative, and most fun job they have ever had. Even with the same...

I don't talk about loads we are on at the time but now that we are at today's Orange County, California delivery, I can say we have been on our way to LA from New Jersey since Wednesday. Practicing what I preach, we did not check truck counts before heading west. Now that we are here on a...

Why is it that discount customers get to protect their bottom line by negotiating lower rates but contractors cannot do the same by negotiating higher pay? Why is it that our carrier is happy to talk to us about serving the customer but is unwilling to take a loss on a load? Actually, that's...

LOL. The man has a point. There was company talk early on about how the new dispatch system would help agents respond quickly to customers, thereby keeping them from calling the competition while waiting for an answer. That may be true but I wonder how true that really is. I would think that...

Thank you for the day-by-day, development-by-development reports. That's the kind of information that is meaningful to many.

It is never easy to lose a pet. Our condolences.

First, keep FDCC's truck age limits in mind. Next is a shot in the dark but maybe something to look into. I'll use a known Minnesota example, thinking a similar company can be found in your neck of the woods. The company is a trailer shop and Supreme truck body dealer. They install landing...

Well, if you are willing to shift into a more positive frame of mind, there are things you can do to improve your circumstances while you wait to deliver. I enjoy hanging out in FedEx facilities when the opportunity presents itself. The break rooms are usually graced with training materials...

Try this link. Photo is by Virginia State Police. Looking for the bigger copy I saw earlier. EDIT: More photos are surfacing. Here is one of an Express-1 truck in the midst of the Petro rubble.

TA/Petro says there were no deaths or injuries at the tornado-struck Glade Springs Petro. See this

In the orignial post, the word "photos" is underlined. Click that link to see them.

I am uncomfortable with that statement. I don't think Diane and I have more good fortune (luck) than others. We get stuck sitting too. The reason we often get out under dispatch is not because we are lucky. It is because we positioned ourselves early on to be a fully credentialed team in a fully...

Sobering photos of the tornado damage done to the Glade Spring, VA Petro and trucks there. I can't tell for sure but it look like that may be a Panther E or ER unit partially in the shop.

The video prompted a sense of embarrassment in me; not about the company but about not knowing the company strategy. FDCC CEO Virginia Albanese talked at length about the good communications that go on in the company and how that helps people know the company strategy. As I watched the video...

If we had that info and the 5 and 8 scenario developed in LA as you describe, Diane and I would not hesitate to take the next load going to LA. First, we would not take that long inbound run if the money was not good, so if we took it, it would mean a lucrative run now. That's a bird in the...

You won't make any money but we'll keep you busy doing it! Heaven forbid that you sit. Worse yet that while you are sitting you might take a few minutes to think about how everyone makes money off your truck and freight while you just keep on driving and driving and driving.

It is not true that every expediter is out there to make money. It may be true that many expediters will say they are out there to make money but if they were serious, they would not be doing over and over again the things that do not make money. They would change their behavior to do the things...

Bad owners do indeed have a plan and some are very skilled at taking advantage of the fact that they are dealing with drivers who can generate a good amount of gross revenue to the truck but have little or no money to fight. Then along comes a determined fellow like you, and see how even someone...

Another option you have, ftp000, is to simply name the fleet owner you are having issues with. You may not be permitted to do so here for understandable reasons. If you asked me to name him on my web site, I too would decline if no easily verifiable proof existed that you were in the right and...

This thread is difficult to follow because people are all over the place. I don't even know that people are talking about the same fleet owner or various ones. Nevertheless, ftp000, you seem to be articulate and have things well documented. If Diane and I were in a circumstance (hypothetical...