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I hope the backhaul team will feel sufficiently geard up to start telling contractors that we can now use self-booked freight to not only get home but get out of slow areas. I hope to hear about the details and rules from the powers that be. FedEx Custom Critical helping their contractors book...

The divorce is over. I do not know the terms. The house may be in both names because of the decree. It may be that the house proceeds get split when the house is sold. I don't know. The quit-claim deed is a good thought and something I will mention to him. He has already considerd bankruptcy but...

Two years. I know nothing more about his driving history. He is a solo driver and contractor with FDCC.

Exactly! Until we see the loan agreement, there is no way to know what is going on. I am not inclined to do a fundraiser for this guy. We are not going to bail him out. I don't know if he has a long term future in expediting. I'm not trying to be his fleet owner, lender, brother or buddy. It...

You are right about that. Expediter wannabees, I hope you are listening.

As I said, I'm just looking for ideas. His next step is to fax us a copy of his loan agreement for Diane's review. That will tell us more about what is up. It could well be that he is playing us for suckers. We have considered that possibility. We continue to believe his story and cut him some...

It began in the parking lot. Diane was on the way back from the building to our truck. His truck was in between. He was in the cab with his window open. It started as many such chats do. Diane got back to our truck and shared what she learned. We decided to lend a hand and give him some money...

As I said in the original post, Diane and I are never going to be fleet owners so the idea of us buying the truck and leasing it back to him on reasonable terms is out. We want to help but gifting $15,000 to a stranger is a bit much for us. We are not inclined to lend that amount to him either...

Were the extra two men named Art?

By "we," I don't mean Diane and me alone. I mean anyone inclined to help or knows someone that may have a solution. We met this solo D-unit expediter today at a truck stop in a typical drivers-talk-shop chat. He has been sitting a while. He paid off his house in November. He leases his truck...

Let me put it another way. If you want to quibble about the meaning of words, find a mirror and talk to yourself.

Wow! What a surprise! I open the latest edition of the Weekly Fleet Bulletin to find a link to a list of FDCC approved freight brokers. Of the hundreds listed nationwide, 23 are near our home. Sweet! Diane and I have only used the Home Run program once, and then as an experiment as much as...

So what? Ross Perot used to tell his sales force to dress like your customers dress. I have decided to talk like my carrier talks because it seems equally wise to do so. I could care less what the words mean. It matters more what the words do. In this case, the words let my carrier and...

Be careful about lumping us all together. Diane and I are leased to a large carrier and have few complaints about dispatch. When we turn down a load, it is done with the press of a button and with no consideration beyond the load itself. Only on rare occasions has dispatch called and wanted to...

First saying that I know almost nothing about the courrier business, I will offer that at least one courrier company has its courriers deadheading very little. EDIT: I misunderstood fastman_1's point and failed to distinguish between the 100 mile long shot and local runs when I wrote what I...

That's great news for you about the van being found! Yippiee! It is also great news for all expediters the way some rose here to communicate and keep an eye open. That's what the EO community is all about. We are all better off for it.

I have seen it happen many times where drivers and owner-operators co-mingle their opinions about their self-importance, rights and/or power over a customer or carrier with the details of a carrier's compensation schedule (D-time, labor, lift gate, pad-wrap, additional stops, surcharge, etc.) In...

You are correct. The agencies have lobbyists too.

I agree. The message could mean anything. Still keeping an eye open here. We are monitoring a fuel island in the Midwest. Diane has the second shift tonight. ;)

There is a lot of money to be made by processing all these background checks and administering credentials. Political influence can be gained by having say over the jobs and money involved. The whole process gives certain people something to have say over, other people jobs, and still others...