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Your history lesson is a great illustration of how independent contractors adapt to changing circumstances. Under a variety of changing company policies and market conditions, Steve has modified his getting-home strategy to achieve what he wants. There is an important lesson here for new...

We live in a very good express center (Minneapolis). If we wanted to be home, the last thing to do would be to stay in service and on the board. Offers would come in and we would be out in very little time (usually). The reason to not make a special trip home to wait for freight is that we would...

I know several fleet owners that told their teams the same thing. It is easier to wait at home than out on the road. Even if it costs the fleet owner money to get the team home, it is worth it because the teams are less likely to quit.

You make a good point. One person's approach to expediting and experiences in it is different than others. This is where our house on wheels approach really pays off. Because we cook and live in the truck, it is never less expensive for us to wait for freight at home than it is to wait for...

If you are in the business to make money, staying home so others can haul the freight is not in one's best interests. The fact that wait times between loads have increased is not a reason to deadhead home. It is a reason to stay out.

1. When we are home, we are usually out of service so, except for the day we go back in service, no load offers would be received by any means. 2. When we are home, we are off line more than when we are on the road. E-mail would not be a good way to get info to us. 3. When I am on the computer...

For what purpose do they do this? Why is it worth doing? I would not have asked before the information became unavailable to us, but finding that FDCC and contractors seem able to live without it, why track it?

Or we can disregard the importance of refusals altogether. If FDCC can no longer track our acceptance percentages or at least care enough about it to tell us what they are, why should we? A standard that is not announced has zero effect as a motivator. Contractors have now gone many months...

Name: Phil and Diane Madsen Carrier: FedEx Custom Critical CR-unit 1. Live within our means. 2. Live within our means. 3. Live within our means.

Great Potential for Express-1 Acquisition

California officials, warning of fiscal meltdown, went to the federal government seeking emergency aid, saying California is too big to fail. Obama administration says no. Calif. Aid Request Spurned by U.S.

If you are serious about doing a radio show, know there are a number of truckers trying to break into that right now. There are the obvious shows on the satellite trucking channels. If you go to Twitter Search and search for truckers, you will find some setting themselves up as broadcasters...

California Budget 101: Making sense of the state's financial meltdown June 15 (today) is the deadline date the state comptroller announced for a budget deal. The state's fiscal year ends June 30. It is a practical deadline. Without a budget deal, the comptroller will not have time to issue...

Agreed. I failed to mention VRU 2, 2.

May was a very good month for us, as good as a "good" month was before the recession began. Can't say much about June as we have been home for a good part of it.

You have locks figured out as well as anyone. Different kinds of locks come along from time to time for different reasons. Some of them seem odd (rare). The best thing is to simply do status checks when you are waiting for freight (code 09). If you see that you are locked, call dispatch to see...

From our one-truck, owner-operator point of view, higher fuel prices are a good thing, as long as our carrier's fuel surcharge holds. That's because we drive smart, spec'ed our truck smart and get better-than-average fuel economy as a result. Fuel surcharge calculations are based on an average...

Our truck has a D-12, 2006 model-year engine. The D-12 is no longer made. If we ever replaced the engine, it would be with a D-12 rebuilt or a new D-13. The latest info on the Volvo SCR system is on their web site. Good information can be found there. The videos are especially informative. See this.

We are gathering bids and working on the application. We intend to submit it before the deadline. Unknown Unknown until the unit is installed (assuming we receive the grant money, but that is in no way guaranteed). I do not know. We are looking at this only for our application...

We also use the NeatReceipts scanner with good results. Beats the heck out of going to a truck stop every time you need to fax something. We also use an online fax service for incoming faxes. People fax to our fax number and the service e-mails it to us as a .pdf document that we then print in...