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Good job! In many cases, facing the thing you fear is enough to make the fear go away. On the other hand, it is wise to be aware and always prepared, because sometimes the thing you fear can destroy you. For new people coming into expediting with no previous experience, I know of no better...

Adjustment by carriers and drivers will be easy, once we know what to adjust to. The essence of what we provide remains unchanged; a truck and drivers. No new money will need to be laid out by us to provide whatever services we are permitted to provide in the future. The burden will fall on...

This is serious business with a host of variables that seem not to have been contemplated by the rule makers. It's easy to sit in one's arm chair and toss "shoulds" out to solve whatever problem you think can be easily solved. The reality is that the shippers, consignees, carriers and drivers...

That is certainly part of it if not all of it. When the novelty of NYC wore off for us, NYC became less tolerable. I love NYC as a tourist. If I won big in the lottery, I would buy an apartment there to use as a tourism base and vacation place. Did you know that there are over 1,000 museums in...

Re: !Re: C-Time? You are the main advocate here on EO of "Drive less, make more." You don't do that by giving away the miles you dive.

This is a power-only company. Tractor owner-operators pick up and deliver customer-supplied trailers and the trailers may be anything from an ordinary dry van to oversize flatbed to old junkers being delivered to new owners to brand new trailers being delivered to trailer dealers to specialized...

Re: !Re: C-Time? Who says we have not changed our approach? Indeed we have. The change is to not go into that area any more unless the money is fantastic. The result is far fewer runs to and from there with a wonderful drop in the amount of tolls paid, potholes hit and aggravation experienced...

I was talking with a big-rig driver today and this topic came up. He said it is common at his company for its contractors to ask for an additional $500 for any trip into and out of Long Island. They ask and the amount is readily agreed to, he said.

Part of what you learn in this business is learned by flying by the seat of your pants. You learn as you go and when things change you learn anew. Tolls have skyrocketed to obscene levels in recent years. Diane and I don't have a flat-rate 20 percent congestion charge just yet but are working...

I did not think to reset our fuel info to determine actual mpg or gallons per hour while creeping through that traffic for six hours. It would have been a good experiment. Has anyone done so before? It would be interesting to know what the congestion fuel cost truly is.

!Re: C-Time? Increased fuel costs are not the customers' fault but we charge for those in the form of a fuel surcharge. Tolls are not the customers' fault but we charge for those by building them into the per-mile rate quoted for the run. Detention may or may not be the customers' fault but we...

We just spent six hours driving 120 miles in heavy, stop-and-go traffic on the East Coast. Thus began the 600 mile run we are now on. No one says the traffic congestion problem will get better. Many industry people predict that it will get worse. Where does that leave us, the drivers who spend...

I'm a little confused by the article. If a straight truck definition includes GVWR over 10,000 lbs., would not the driver of that truck need to have a CDL already?

That's one of the things I like about running with Landstar. They fight bogus citations like that.

For a Mormon practicing polygamy, whose two wives are agreeable to the arrangement, and whose sleeper is large enough to support it, it could work. Theoretically, you could keep the truck moving forever. Good luck, however, squeezing that reality into team logging and a bureaucratic system that...

On paper, you can always do lots of things. But how practical really is 8-3-3-8 for a team that runs irregular hours, and loads some of which are short and some of which are long, and some of which may be back-to-back and others of which may come after days of waiting?

The great thing about chess is that the rules never change. The board has a limited number of squares. White opposes black. A pawn is a pawn. A king can only move one square at a time. Each player moves in turn. In trucking, the rules are in a continual state of flux, which itself becomes part...

While I agree with your basic statement, there is one change that we like. The 34 hour reset did not always exist. It serves as an incentive to take such a break. There are many people in the compliance community who go to work every day believing that the work they do is all about safety, and...

Agreed. It seems to be a forever-lost hope that the FMCSA will allow drivers to limit their driving to a legal level but also retain the flexibility to decide how best to structure one's working day and breaks. We still miss the 5/5 rule that we enjoyed as a team earlier in our expediting...

Drivers sometimes get wound up about these blitzes when they come. They are ho-hum events for those who keep their trucks in shape and in compliance. We got pulled in more than usual running during the blitz but were waved through every time.