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Maybe thats why Walmart had quietly gotten into franchise stores? The green facaded stores are franchise and the blue are company stores...

My Gawd PJjjjj your starting to sound more like an American every post!! They say there's a cure coming for that...I've got got the same bug and doctors say it's terminal!!!*LOL*

ICT..Once and awhile Cheri comes out with a GEM..thats why she's our DIAMOND in the rough...*L* Cheri...ever get out of SLC paid???

Star..exactly..the customer is the boss ie: he's paying the freight!! Its our job to give the service they are paying for...there's such a fine line....but there is a line.

July transactions up 5% over last year while struggling U.S. deals with double-digit declines Tony Van Alphen Business Reporter Auto sales roared back in Canada last month but remained in reverse in the U.S. In what one analyst described as "gravity defying," Canadian sales and leases...

yeah after 5 years of a lowly cargo vanner...now I am an uppity Sprinter owner..who final has someone lower on the foodchain..hahaha....:rolleyes:

Thats why there are contracts approved by a lawyer in these manners...to state terms and conditions of the person who accepts those terms and signs the contract. My example of the post office...you MUST arrive at 4am, your truck will be clean and a fixed schedule of where you will be at a given...

It's so counter productive...I suppose if being so hurtful of the country just for the job...you could "almost"question thier loyalty....wouldn't want them having my back!! Sure theres a slowdown...but ruination? No I see soe good things happenning that the press just ignores... The...

Your last 2 lines contradict abit... Your example IS one of employer/employee no doubt.....A true team is a partnership BOTHH agreeing to the work. You wanna see strict rules? Try being a contractor for the Post Office and they get away with it no problems...So in the big picture I think all...

I had to pay for the pee test upfront...at E-1

ever try to get a seat at a steak house or an Outback or Cracker Barrel at supper time? Near Impossible...Bad Economy? maybe a slump with GM and Ford and abit of building slump....I don't see it THAT bad...No less then 4 new auto plants in the south alone to counter, an aerospace industry...

I posted that about a month ago....and it got pretty much ignored as well....I said then why wouldn't the U.S have kept it or got the bargain and brought it here to use...

Bottomline...they can do whatever they want pretty well with immunity... I mean I can't see them pulling that crap alot....The regs just give them the leeway to do thier jobs of protecting the border without having to get search warrants. In which case you might be well be there even longer.

Bottomline...they can do whatever they want pretty well with immunity... I mean I can't see them pulling that crap alot....The regs just give them the leeway to do thier jobs of protecting the border without having to get search warrants. In which case you might be well be there even longer.

yep..more Bolt , more E-1 and especially tri-state since this year they have the Caterpillar contract...and if 3 state can't hold onto it, the pendulum will swing to another carrier.... Losing the one Cat is part reason why other cats are having a hard time...

Sub-contractor.....comes to mind...totally indepentent as the owner....contracting out thier driving skills. Think of a construction site...where a bulder holds the main contract....and they in turn sub-contract to specific skills. Each offering thier services at a negotiated rate.

Seriously though I always thought they could do this as they have almost unlimited power...Your literally at thier mercy...anything goes, all rights are suspended...all in the name of security...But as some would say if your not hiding anything why worry about it....just let them evesdrop, have...

You usually speak clearer Charles...that was confusing but point made again and again and again.... Any how..I sign a contract with a carrier that will find me frieght at the rate that I need to run my business or agreed apon rate...THEY work for me...I work for them...The customer whether...

No need to be protective Dave.. I forgot to add the standard disclaimer that seems necessary lately.... "And this would apply to any carrier":rolleyes:

IF I owned the company I'd even suspend the 2 weeks QC expense while he's serving...If people don't serve I may not have a business to run!!!