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Even with 11 stinker loads in a row (we have never seen anything close to that), I would not worry. If you cannot afford to run them profitably, it is not likely that someone else can. The desperate people who take unprofitable loads will put themselves out of the business. Shippers who try to...

After driving overnight, we delivered this morning in New England, went to sleep and were woken up four times with load offers. Two of the first three paid over $2.00 per mile. The one that did not involved a lot of deadhead but still paid well enough to accept. We turned them down because...

Now there's an idea for the next Expo! An in-truck-cooked brownie contest. Volunteering to be a judge here! :)

Diane and I first learned of the FedEx Custom Critical/TA fuel discount months ago by word of mouth from other contractors. We immediately called our friends to make sure they knew too. Official notification came soon after. The best thing about this discount is it reduces our operating costs...

Remembering the praise SlushBusters received here in the Open Forum last year, we recently ordered a set. They are now at home waiting for us to pick them up. It will be great if they work as well as people say. It solves a very real problem.

It has only happened to us twice that we became too sick to drive. Both times we spent in bed in the truck until it passed. Once was at a truck stop. Once was at an RV park. We were no so sick as to be confined to bed. Had that been the case, a hotel room would have been the solution. Flu...

Just one man's opinion here. Expedited freight transport (definitions of what exactly that is vary) is not more vunerable than general trucking owner-operators. 1. At a time where we have seen carriers of all sizes going out of business at tripple the previous rate, no expedite carrier that I...

The explaination is that Greg is taking a breather and is off the forum for personal reasons. That leaves me wondering if he is still in the business? Is he?

Let's be careful about deciding when the freight speeds up and slows down, and then running the facts through political filters to affix credit and blame for it. For the record, freight is slowing down now. Carriers are going out of business today at three times the previous rate. And worse...

While you are right about Dems and Repubs being equally responsible for the mess we are in, you are not right in presenting the White House as a passive player in legislation. The $700 bailout bill provides an example. This began as a White House initiatiave. It did not begin in Congress. It...

I would not go so far as to say that. With the economy slowing, a bunch of good folks will find themselves out of work. Some will discover and consider the expediting opportunity. If you can adapt to living and working on the road, doing somewhat profitable expediting work may be preferable to...

The Wall Street Journal October 24 article Shipping Firms Gear Down as Slow Economy Takes Toll is must reading for expediters, and especially for people considering a move into the expedite industry. While the article is mostly about big trucking companies, it talks about freight slowing at a...

"Southfield, MI (PRWEB) October 25, 2008 -- On Oct. 24-26, Steven M. Gursten will be in Atlanta, Ga., speaking at a seminar for the Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (AITLA) called, 'How to Win Big in the Tough Truck Accident Case.' His topic, 'Maximizing Personal Injury...

First, this thread should be in the Soap Box section. FIS53, Been there, tried that. Beginning in 1992, I threw myself into the political arena with everything I had to support first an alternative to the two parties (Perot) and then to build a state and national third party. In the following...

Yes. And we would have thanked you. Someone in a four-wheeler who takes time to warn a trucker about tickets being written probably knows what he or she is talking about and is probably doing people a favor. However, in our case the warning would probably be unecessary as we tend to comply with...

FedEx Custom Critical contractors can easily answer this "How's business recently" question by checking their numbers on the company's Extranet. It does not provide granular information about the profitability of your business, but it does provide a good indication of business activity. A quick...

The cover story in the current edition of Expedite NOW is about Bill Allen, a cargo van owner who powers his sleeper with solar power. At press time, Bill planned to install an Espar heater. That was recently done and he is delighted with the heater. As winter approaches, he expects to stay...

When you have millions of Americans fighting for government program A, and millions of others fighting for government program B, and millions of still others fighting for government program C, and all of them willing to tax the other guy in support of their program of choice, and thousands of...

Sales tax is a tax on business and it gets passed straight through to customers in the form of higher prices. Payroll tax is a tax on business and it gets passed straight through to employees in the form of pay scales that have the tax built in. FET is a tax on business (as in the purchase of a...

We finally got to a Fastenal store to purchase the graffiti wipes recommended above. They come in a canister and will be easy to carry in the truck. Next time we get tagged, or meet someone who did, we will be ready with these wipes and a bottle of acetone (fingernail polish remover available at...