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It could be good news too, could it not? If Panther is in play, pending litigation is something that would be looked at by any buyer. The desire to sell the company may increase the company's willingness to settle quickly to clear the books.

The Reuters piece is based on unnamed sources and we don't know who will buy Panther if anyone buys the company at all. Nevertheless, since talk about possible buyers has already begun, it might be instructive to review what happened when Conway decided to get out of the expedite business a few...

What $1.12 per mile are you talking about? What does that figure mean?

Full story here Excerpt: Feb 28 (Reuters) - U.S. logistics firm Panther Expedited Services Inc is trying to sell itself, three months after scrapping its IPO plans, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Panther, owned by private equity firm Fenway Partners, is being advised by...

I wondering if Sprinter owners might give more direct answers to the original questions asked? Turritrans's question was clear and respectfully asked. I'm interested in the answer too.

Stay tuned, E-OneDog. I think you will be very interested in what I have to report, just as I am very interested in what you have to report. I am working now on a story about Express-1; specifically, about what has changed and has not changed since Jacobs took over the company last year. If...

Allow me to throw out another thought. You just shared some history of expediting stuff that was very interesting to read. I have never heard of Bruce Simpson until you mentioned him above. I knew of Dan Schultz only because you mentioned him once before. That's the kind of stuff that gets...

EN used to feature driver profiles more frequently than it does now. Jeff Jensen (rest his soul) wrote a lot of them over the years. I have written very few, either because Lawrence asked me to write something else for whatever upcoming issue was in play or because I had volunteered a...

I'm aware of that, Bruno. I have looked at the EHOF site. Thanks for the link.

Point taken, John. So I'll state again the idea I closed with above. Start by establishing an expediter profiles web site or a journal or blog in which you profile selected expediters on an ongoing basis. You are going to have to produce that kind of content and photos anyway for a...

I know, Bruno, that the Expediters Hall of Fame has been a favorite project of yours for a long time. Ideas for your consideration are respectfully submitted below. Have you thought about simply proceeding on your own instead of trying to enroll people in a larger and more complex collaborative...

Like you, Diane and I loved our headlights when we bought our truck new. We've never before had lighting that good. It was great. Over time the lenses yellowed until we had enough and replaced the headlamp assemblies. It was not cheap but was money well spent.

We hope to do fine but the more I learn about the other side of the expedite business -- that is those who are not or do not run with the major carriers -- the more I realize that for one-truck owner-operators like Diane and me, it's not about knowing everything there is to know about the...

No one understands DVA and that is by design. Artificial complexity creates two classes of people -- insiders and outsiders -- and enables the insiders to tell outsiders whatever they want about how the system works. DVA is an in-house dispatch system. The complexity you are talking about...

Ha! Maybe waiting for the beep isn't so bad after all.

OK. So let me give this a try. At the moment, Diane and I are sitting at our Florida vacation house and plan to go back in service very soon. With our small straight truck we can haul small straight truck, Sprinter van and cargo van loads. Since much of what we haul is van loads, it works...

That answers half the question. Thank you. Now, how do drivers use it?

What tool are you talking about and how do drivers use it?

Some readers may read what you wrote and hear the common and cynical phrase "It's not what you know, it's who you know." That would be a mistake. To a person, the chiefs of the small carriers I talked to at the Sylectus conference (whose fleets combined number about 10,000 trucks) stressed the...

My intent was a little bit of both. Yes, I wanted to broaden the discussion, but I also wanted to broaden my own knowledge. I have never heard the term "structured fuel surcharge" before. I wondered, is there also something called an unstructured fuel surcharge, and if so, how does it differ...