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Seeing the country is a reason cited by many people for entering the expediting business. Of course you have to run a profitable business to make a long-term go of it, but as far as seeing the country goes, you can certainly do so as an expediter. To provide readers with a visual of the ground...

Point taken.

We arrived at a medical clinic in a medium-size Louisiana town on a hot summer day to move a piece of medical equipment to a building about half a mile away. It was an inside pickup, liftgate, inside delivery load. The item was important and expensive enough for the shipper to fly in an observer...

You deduce incorrectly.

I didn't get into trucking to live like an infantryman on the road. I got out of the infantry and into our truck so I would not have to. My truck works for me, your truck works for you, and off to the sunset we happily go. Diane and I got into expediting for the money and that part is working...

See this: The $5,000 Expediter Truck

Very well stated. We drove three years in other people's D and DR units with FedEx Custom Critical before getting into a truck of our own. We knew our carrier and the freight we haul very well before we began spec'ing our CR truck. Having driven D and DR units for three years and then getting...

Waiting for freight in Houston, Texas, after delivering here an hour ago.

What carrier do you run with? If the freight damage claim was denied, how is it that you may be "dragged into the mess?"

This piece may also interest you: Introduction to Expediting

You can do both by becoming a charter bus driver and with a lot less trouble than becoming the self-employed business owner you would be as an expediter.

I suggest that the most sensible approach is to not enter the business until you know with every fiber of your being exactly what it is you want to accomplish by entering the business. There are two approaches. One is the shopping approach. With it you read the Open Forum; talk to drivers...

Consider picking a carrier before you spec a truck. After you have done that, ask your carrier which box size (or truck type) is the best money maker, if making money is your goal. Spec'ing a truck is an exercise in tradeoffs (carrier culture, sleeper size, component costs, revenue potential...

In another thread TeamCaffee said, "Roll with it or spend your time being frustrated over something you do not have to power to change." She is not wrong, but I want to urge contractors to not sell themselves short when it comes to understanding the power you have. It is an important belief...

Delightful! :)

The worst thing about layovers is you are not making money hauling freight. Layover days are zero-revenue days. The most difficult thing about layovers for Diane and me is, as nightcreacher also mentioned, not knowing what will happen next. If you are laid over and waiting for freight, you...

Behold the deer, oh so sleek, beloved by all, gentle and meek. If only it had a brain in its head, it would not now be, 'neath my truck dead.

There is a woman on this Earth, my wife, my love, my second birth. We drive a truck, she and I, hauling freight, far and nigh. There is a woman on this Earth, my wife, my love, my second birth.

A rhyme in time, a stitch in nine. Mixed up it is, this head of mine.

I laughed long and loud at Ragman's post. It need not take the thread off track.