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The top 50 carriers are reporting healthy earnings but driver pay lags. See: Journal of Commerce article Excerpt: "Here’s the kicker. That average trucker pay is lower than the overall average U.S. wage, and the gap between them is getting wider. Since 2001, average driver pay has increased...

Diane and I are straight truck drivers in both senses of the word. Our truck specs are not your truck specs but reading though them will give you food for thought as you spec your truck.

Your signature indicates you are with FedEx Custom Critical. You are not referring to fines and check holds there are you? What you describe above about fines and check holds is not how I remember it when Diane and I were there. It was the case that you did not get paid if your paperwork was...

From the El Paso Times: Mexican federal prosecutors will press charges against the U.S. trucker who may have accidentally crossed into Juárez with 268,000 rounds of ammunition last week, a source familiar with the investigation said on Monday. Full story

TA East, Ontario, California. Expediters who are still here tomorrow (Tuesday) are going in for breakfast at 9:00 a.m.

My fear is that they are learning. Turnover in trucking has been high since Diane and I entered the business. It seems to be a cost the companies are willing to pay because the benefits of taking money off trucks produce a net gain.

Carrier info and truck type.

Many readers would be interested to learn how brokers do work; what authority they operate under, what their relationships are with shippers, carriers, load boards, drivers, where their activities overlap with other entites in transportation, etc. Talk of such things has increased in the Open...

Did you note, PreacherRich, what highway star said in post #3? It seems to me that you are quoting rates off carrier web sites, not "broker web sites." It is an important difference. Freight brokers and motor carriers are both active in the transportation industry but they are distinctly...

If you did so, and did so in a journalistic responsible way and were willing to subject your work to my editing, I would be pleased to publish those pages on my web site if EO was not willing to publish them here. Once your work is published, I would post links to them here in the Open Forum, on...

While not as dramatic, Diane and I had similar experiences with some of the fleet owners we signed on with or considered. One sent us the correct photo of the truck but when we pre-tripped it for the first time, a lighting defect was found. That truck sat in his yard for weeks and he delivered...

I agree. This thread belongs in the soapbox. Rocketman, it's good to have a soapbox forum. It helps keep the general and other forum free of political clutter.

Layoutshooter, most news writers keep a copy of the Associated Press Stylebook on their desks. It provides rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage. I keep one in our truck and use it often when writing for Expedite Now and other publications. Regarding your comments about "bullet"...

The first thread of this title was locked but the story continues to develop. From a Fox News story: Mekenye is the truck company operations manager. "Mekenye said that Bogan informed him that after making two of his three stops in El Paso, Texas, he proceeded to drive to the third stop...

There is no mystery to this. Shippers and brokers need to hire transportation (trucks) to move goods. The lower the price at which they can do so, the more money they get to keep for themselves. From experience they know that truckers will often take a reduced rate to take a load that takes them...

When you (or anyone) meet people who think they are above you, what is the problem really? Is it that they think they are above you, or is it that you think you are beneath them?

It's a good thing you never ran into Andy Griffith and Barney Fife. Both of them talked about the bullet Barney carried in his shirt pocket. They would have had hell to pay if you were around to catch them using that language.

OK. that is your right and you have made your statement. Now I'll make mine. I want readers to know that I have confidence in Mr. Martinez' reporting. This comes from reading the stories he wrote about the ammo truck that crossed into Mexico and from talking with him by phone. He strikes me as...

Intrigued, I looked into the HAZMAT and placarding issue. Notice in the news story photos the ORM-D lables on the ammo cans. Then turn to the Hazardous Materials Table in your Hazardout Materials Compliance Pocketbook. You will see that cartridges in hazard class ORM-D do not require placards...

Update: "The U.S. trucker who was detained this week by Mexican authorities with 268,000 rounds of ammunition has been taken to Mexico City by federal investigators specializing in organized crime." Story here