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Exclusive use means just that. The customer does not have his freight co-mingled with any other freight. If you have more than one customer's freight on your truck you are now an LTL carrier. I did not invent or develop expedited freight definitions myself. The industry recognized initiator...

In another current thread about cheap freight, the topic of the definition of expedite freight surfaced. One of our Forum members suggested that the truckload carriers also carry expedite freight. The thirty expedite carriers that advertise with Ontimemedia and Expeditersonline generally...

Pappy summed it up well. One driver's cheap freight is another driver's tank of fuel. It's no different in expedite; since we're generally all owner operators, we each have our own idea of cheap, not so cheap, pretty good and great. It would be difficult to get a concensus within any one...

How 'bout the call when the Cue pager beeped, call upon arrival to pickup, call when leaving pickup, call every 4 hours, call when arrive at delivery, call with POD, call when arrive at Layover, call when checking into hotel; all this from pay phones because no one in our shoes ever had a cell...

Ark: Those and other truckload and LTL carriers have what they call Expedite Divisions, but they are hardly expediters in the purest sense. Warehoused freight, however quickly handled and turned around, is not expedite freight.

cevape07 How much money per mile would be enough?

Sounds familiar from or automotive days. Your saga suggests you are neither dock high nor box high, it that so?

Try a trailor repair place as they sell the e-track and might install for you. Also call Jon Mosher at Freightliner of Knoxville. If he can't help, he can get you in the right direction.

RE: Involved with Clinton for President? Be Carefu I'm no fan of either Clinton, but fair's fair. Let's not perpetuate this ongoing controversy. See the following Snopes commentary on this issue. http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp

RE: Independent Contractors/owner operators: what' An O/O can be either an Independant Contractor or an employee of, or to, another party. An Owner/Operator owns and operates a vehicle either for himself or for another party

If you have a detached garage it should be relatively easy to hire a company to jack the building, lay two courses of cinder block on the sill, lower and secure the sill plate to the cinderblock base. you'd need a new door section and rail extension If your garage is attached to the house you'd...

Debbieintroy: You are one of a half dozen folks that have asked the near identical question in the past couple of weeks. There is no shortage of Expeditersonline forum members that would be pleased to help you but, you have to do a lot of homework to get started properly, operate efficiently...

Quick, someone give Pappy a cold shower coupon

RE: About idling!! How to keep down the cost of id If you plan on using a cooking stove to stay comfortable, you'd better have a really good carbon monoxide detector or you'll not know discomfort for an eternity. For starters, you might consider adding some good insulation to the walls and...

RE: Looking to join Express 1 - what is their trac Scott (X1-SRH) has left Express-1 and gone to school to get a degree in education. He's going to teach High School

Check out the Espar heater at Espar of Michigan. Just about the best way to heat a Cargo Van

RE: Load Transfer 486 Praticle 132 DH for less tha Not sure about the cryptic reference to the folks in your post, but the allusion to the run refusal prompts me to talk about the other side of the coin. You seem to be annoyed that dispatch would have the gall to offer you such a low paying...

Once again, the Knoxville Expedite Workshop had at least one success story. A middle aged professional man with a desire to change his direction in life has been lurking on the Forum while considering expediting as a possibility. He came to the EO Workshop to listen to the speakers, and talk...

RE: I need massive feedback from long-time cargo v Terry O'Connell's 2006 Chevy 3500 has been driven 71,000 miles since May 2006. His last 2000 Chevy 3500 van was sold at 557,000 miles to another expediter who now has well over 600,000 miles on the original 5.7l engine.

RE: I need massive feedback from long-time cargo v Another excellent 2 point post from TURTLE. His simple succinct comments told it like it is and, from my observations, BLIZZARD'S gross earnings goal is achievable. I can't vouch for the cubed E-450 as the optimum B unit for Blizzard's net...