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It could mean anything. It could be driver health issues that prematurely forced an owner-operator team out of their truck. It could be that moving company got a contract that required a straight truck reefer and a sweet deal was offered to recruit that truck. It could be that the team failed...

Diane and I are aware of the difference between FedEx Custom Critical's centralized dispatch system and Landstar's decentralized, agent-driven dispatch system. Our move to Landstar takes us into an entirely different game; one that we are well equipped to play. Marketing and professional...

As in business, so too in life. It is human nature to resist change, even when you know you are in a bad situation. Diane and I made it look easy to change carriers but it is not. You get to know people and a system. You identify with the logo on your truck. You become comfortable with the...

Well there you go! Readers don't have to ask me how things are for a new team at LEA, you can watch the process unfold right here. Have a truck with a lift gate, join LEA, let people know that you did, and wait your turn for orientation. While you do, the universe will shift to help you...

Yes, there is a liftgate on our truck.

I would not be too quick to arrive at that conclusion. First, they will not tell you why a contract is being terminated even if you ask. Second, I was not alone in stating my issues with FedEx Custom Critical. If you read the posts going back several months in the FedEx Custom Critical forum...

That is exactly right and the company has been badly burned before by contractors who joined a new company with the fierce intention to hurt their former company. Diane and I have seen it happen several times where Fedex Custom Critical contractors leave, fuming with anger and motivated by...

This is not news to anyone who researches the company even a little bit. Diane and I knew we would be more of a number than a name when we joined the company eight years ago. That was one of the appealing things, that everyone was treated as a number. We did not want to join a company where...

I posted a few minutes ago in the FedEx Custom Critical forum that Diane and I have left that carrier for another (Landstar Express America). The post was the post and I thought little more about it as we prepare to enjoy a quiet weekend. But with questions already coming to us by phone and...

In posts here in the Open Forum and on my blog, and in conversations with company personnel, I have been saying that Diane and I are leaving FedEx Custom Critical. The deed is done. On Monday, we will attend orientation at our new carrier, Landstar Express America. Dreamer, this is my last...

Diane and I started in 2003 as green drivers. We had no service failures in those early months and no freight damage. We drove as many miles and and made as much money in our first month as the grizzled veterans. We did short runs, long runs, New York City runs, inside deliveries, etc. It would...

Your note is of GREAT value. FedEx Custom Critical is not going to go away simply because certain contractors are unhappy and/or choosing to leave the company. The FDCC recruiting department is as busy as ever reaching out to new people who will consider the opportunity. For people considering...

Let's think about that a little deeper. The theory is that a corporation exists to benefit its owners, i.e. the shareholders, but something seems to have shifted in that regard. Executives at big banks are paying themselves obscene bonuses that in no way benefit the shareholders. In many other...

All of this is of decreasing importance to us. We sent applications in to other carriers a while ago. The FedEx lettering has been off our truck box for two weeks. The box was repainted to avoid ghosting when the new logo goes on.

I have talked to three different people in the company who you would think are in a position to know, and have received three different numbers. The last I heard from recruiting was 40.

Those aren't company-owned trailers sitting on the lot. Those are misconceptions! :D

Emotionally, it is less difficult dealing with the business changes than it is dealing with the fact that we are not being told what is going on and why. We can adapt when necessary but is the courtesy of being kept informed too much for a contractor to ask? The company tells contractors many...

I commend your skepticism or caution. Saying "the perceived state, at least" indicates you are taking statements about TVAL with a grain of salt, and that is an excellent and wise approach to Open Forum reading. By reading my posts, you know what Diane and I have come to believe about TVAL...

It matters not a bit to me that someone copied and pasted comments from a carrier forum into the general forum. Having an expectation of control over something you post in a carrier thread would be like having an expectation of privacy in a nudist colony.

Truth be told, I put very little thought into the location of the post when I started it in the FedEx Custom Critical forum. I guess my instinct was to put it there because a post about billing for datalogger services is pretty specific to that carrier.