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Bob and I maintained a perfect safety record this past fiscal year, stayed available over 70% of the time and had a good load acceptance rating. We are honored to have been included in a group of safety conscious performers that have maintained FedEx Custom Critical's highest standards. We...

We are over in Edinburgh at the Flying J and ALL of their fuel pumps are down since Saturday. You cannot get Gas or Diesel here at this time and so far we have not seen anyone working on their electronics. They have plenty of fuel just no computers for the fuel pumps. When is south Texas and...

We have registered and cannot wait for the show! Lasts years was the best ever but this one sure looks like it will top it. Everything for an experienced expediter will be here and for someone just looking to get into this field you cannot top it. Every thing you need in one area plus more...

What we do is make the decision on Friday to stay in Laredo or move. Do not move on Monday morning! You have trucks pouring into Texas with Monday morning deliveries. If you are going to move do it on the weekend so you are number one on the board Monday morning. We have had some really good...

Our carrier will use certain loads to reposition trucks to a different area as they are needed. Still we are not in the position to know the inner workings of all the why's.

Green as in what goes in our checking account! We dont care if the load weighs 13,000 or 1 oz if the load pays enough just point us in the right direction to pick it up. It is not up to us to question why we are dispatched on a load only to pick the load up on time and deliver the load to...

Gregg You get a discount from Michelin on the tires through FedEx on the National Account. Jury still out on the final price. We will not be running Nitrogen and right now we are running 110 lbs.

We will also be adding the Doran tire pressure monitoring system when we get home. This should also help to know if we have one going low. The drivers we talked to that monitored their tires with consistency have not had any problems. I would also not recommend these if you do not have a lift...

With FedEx they use the National Average that brings our price down to 1.25 based on 9.5 miles to the gallon. That is the theory and as all theories go... We have figured what out expenses are and what we need per mile to move our truck. We then look at what the load pays and accept or...

Ask lots of questions and as you have learned all ready keep reading. One day after you start driving someone will ask a question and a light bulb will go and you say wow I can answer that question! You could drive out here all your life and newbie can teach you something. That is part of...

Wow that needs to be parked and become a home. Little over kill there.

I believe there is a conspiracy to wake up sleeping drivers by trashman. If we are with in a mile of a trash can I am always amazed at the amount of noise the drivers can make shaking those things. I have watched them do this in the day light and I don't believe they have the zeal that they do...

Terry's Van with Air Tabs

On June 4th we added super singles to the truck. We put on Michelin X1 XDAHT+ 445 50 R22.5 drive lug tread. They come with aluminum wheels and we believe we lost about 250 pounds. We would like to run about 10,000 miles before we can post what has happened with our fuel mileage. The truck...

View with pusher axle:

It would really be nice if you could post a picture so we could see exactly how you applied the AirTabs. Very interesting on how the AirTabs inceased the fuel milage on a van.

Charlotte what you say is very true and no you sure don't sugar coat much! Some can handle that and some cannot. Your advice is great, learn all you can about your carrier and how to make the best of the best every day. With our great jobs we are in control of our own business and it is up...

I have to admit that Bob taught me to back and to drive but I dont think he realized that I really was paying attention!! Terry, Bob agrees with you 100% LOL

Thanks!! We had a really good time at the Skills Challenge. We really appreciate all the work the FedEx employees went to, to make this a very special and fun day for all. The vendors where great with lots of door prices and we really appreciate them. We had fun meeting many new people and...

We had that exact same thing happen in Canada almost! We where in a residential type area in Toronto and Bob stopped at a little repair shop and some Indian looking guys in broken English told him where to go and how hard the plant was to find. They suggested he stop at the BMW dealer and get...