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Have Michelle make the introduction. For us, she contacted the FedEx Express facility directly. When we arrived, people there wlecomed us with open arms and made us instantly part of the team. The competiton is individual but competitors chum together and help each other out. For reasons I do...

Additonal thoughts: - Be prepared for the unexpected. Diane and I trained for a pre-trip inspection that was to be six minutes long. When a larger number of contestants arrived, a last-minute decision was made to cut the event by one minute. - As with any human competiton, cheating has been...

I presume that settlement information is in a centralized database before it finds it way into individualized .pdf flies. How hard could it be to make the same information available for spreadsheets by putting it also in .csv format? For those of us who use spreadsheets, and for accountants...

Husband/wife team here.

Carrier suggests that the useful life of a reefer is seven years, but most of their customers run big reefers on big trucks in applications where the reefers are run almost as often as the truck engine. A reefer less used would be expected to run longer. Far more important than the brand name...

Diane and I competed at the Yellow/Roadway terminal in Burnsville, MN.

Diane and I competed in the National Truck Driving Championships in June, 2008. My report about it is published on my web site. Comments in response to your post: - Don't rule out winning at the state level and advancing to the nationals. First-time contestants have done so before. -...

Expediters love talking about what they won't do (take loads that don't pay, chain up, go to Canada, take short runs that tie the truck up for too long, etc.). What about the other side of the coin? When you receive what you consider to be good or excellent pay for services rendered, what does...

This article from Heavy Duty Trucking magazine (reprinted by truckinginfo.com) will give you some insight into the rumblings.

69 Degrees Scattered clouds Southwest winds @ 5 mph At our Florida vacation home, 9:15 p.m. No sign of snow yet but we'll keep our eyes open as we take an evening stroll down to the pier.

I'm not so sure that EOBRs mean the end of the road for drivers who regularly cheat on their log books. Could it be that they cheat because they learned how early on and developed that as a habit? How many of these people have even tried to run legal? Same question for carriers that encourage or...

Full story here Posted here so expediters from all carriers can comment. The services named FedEx Freight Priority and FedEx Freight Economy are an interesting transportation industry development. Expedite carrier FedEx Custom Critical is a component of FedEx Freight. FedEx Freight is one of...

If you are going to build showers, build them well, such that they are big enough to move around in, have a place to sit, have plenty of coat hooks, and have doors and locks that leave you a measure of privacy and safety. Private showers seen at truck stops fill the bill. Common areas should...

Diane once served as general counsel to the Minnesota governor. She says that for an appeal to be made, people in the state Attorney General's office must agree to make it. The decision to appeal rests with them. The State Patrol could lobby the governor and others to encourage the AG to appeal...

You are correct. Whatever is made by trade can be defeated by trade. The next thing invented after locks were lock pics. And so it has gone throughout human history. Locks are defeated by lock pics. Codes are defeated by code breakers. Electronic security devices are defeated by other electronic...

Sad news. Diane and I offer our condolences to everyone who knew Jeff as a friend and/or colleague and now mourn his passing. I did not know Jeff as a close friend but was and continue to be impressed with the attitude he had toward his own death. I spoke with him about it on two occasions...

This is one of the many reasons I am pleased to support OOIDA and contribute to its PAC and litigation funds. From OOIDA: "Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 – In what the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association legal team calls a 'major victory,' U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank ruled the...

I asked, what hath the FMCSA wrought? We did not have to wait long to find out. Click this link to see how a TV news reporter quickly accessed a carriers SMS data, printed the pages for camera effect and reported numbers that are technically correct but woefully fail to tell the whole story...

We got ours installed a couple weeks ago but have used it very little because we are on vacation in Florida. I'll have more observations to share after we get back on the road. For now: - One advantage in waiting was that we did not have to use both the log books and electronic logging as the...

A written business plan is a good thing to have and it should include a section about reacting to unexpected breakdowns. You never know what the unexpected event might be. That's why it is called unexpected. But you do know that unexpected events will happen and you can indeed plan for the...