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In the interests of clarity, let me explain that Diane and I did not leave FedEx Custom Critical because we were unable to change with the carrier, we left because we were unwilling to do so. We are not willing to operate under the FDCC umbrella for less money than could be earned before the...

jaminjim, The quality of my EO experience improved immensely when I stopped responding to the member in question and ignored his posts. You might try doing the same. I've been doing it for many months if not a couple of years now and haven't missed a thing. There are people out there who try...

Diane and I are happy at Landstar Express America but it has only been a week. Maybe it is relief we are feeling now that a carrier we were unhappy with has been left behind.

The down side of publishing anything is that every reader gets to read your words however one pleases. Everything gets interpreted and it is the interpreter who determines the end result. Read through the lines, between the lines, into the lines or around the lines all you wish. There is...

Diane and I have run with two carriers in eight years. Having just completed orientation with the second one, we were reminded that there is a lot to learn in a short time when you begin. You want to do do the job right, but when everything is new and unfamiliar, stress develops as the desire...

Notice my choice of words: This is a time in the trucking industry where driver shortages and capacity shortages are beginning to manifest themselves and show up in the form of higher rates. It's spotty. Construction trucking has not picked up because new home construction has not picked up...

The last time I looked at a FedEx annual report, the only place FedEx Custom Critical was mentioned was in a footnote along with a few other tiny companies that are part of the larger (vastly larger) FedEx Corporation. There are people in FedEx who know what FedEx Custom Critical's numbers are...

It must have been a similar truck. We are in a hotel in Rockford, IL and have been for a few days while we attend Landstar orientation.

It is also true that a FedEx Custom Critical competitor gained that team, and they did it without initiating a single recruiting contact with us. Motivated by changes at FDCC and frustrated by not being heard, we initated contact with the gaining carrier. The fantastic customer service we used...

That's a nice thought, and thank you for sharing it, but we do not know if that is true either. No explainations were given and we expect none ever will be. That's just the way FedEx Custom Critical is. Readers, please note that the administrative details of Diane's and my departure from FedEx...

You are making jokes, but now having the numbers from your very own fleet owner -- also a friend of mine who I speak to from time to time (we once drove one of his brother's trucks) -- you see the rate and price per mile declines we are talking about. Financially, the numbers you cite are the...

Don't read too much into the two letters or the fact that Diane and I sent none. Both letters came without explaination, from the same person (not two people with one more senior) on the same date. What does it mean? As a practical matter, nothing. I regard it as an insignificant moment of...

You heard wrong.

I'm not sure that I correctly understand your meaning Linda, but Joe was not wrong when he said that speed limiters were required for WG TVAL trucks. That news did not come from an irritated contractor speaking up on EO. It came by a letter sent by the company to our house. I remember it...

I don't know about the ones, I only know about this one, namely me. Our truck has been fully paid for since 2008 and we have enough money in the bank to sit for six months or more if we had to. My complaints were not inspired by a need to make a truck payment. Diane and I could match the gross...

Diane and I did not leave the company "P/Oed." We left for financial reasons and emotional. We felt sad, not mad, when we left; sad as in greiving the decline of a good company (as seen from our perspective as contractors). Those feelings set in about a year ago as the effects of numerous...

You are correct. D it is. Carriers vary in how they classify trucks. It matters not what they call us. It matters more what we can haul and that the agents come to know it.

We don't know if it was a mistake, intentional or something else. As I said, neither letter included an explanation. Nor does it matter. Diane and I have moved on. I only mention the second letter here for those who might try to spin the first letter into something more than it is. The first...

Reefer freight for straight trucks at Landstar? Who woulda thunk! Actually, Diane and I are finding out that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about Landstar may be generally true, but when you enter the company with a clear purpose and drill deeper down into the system, there is a...

With the passage of a few days and the receipt of two letters, the question is now meaningless. Diane and I do not know what to make of it but we received two letters in the mail today, both dated on the same date. The first was the termination letter that we expected. The second came from the...