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    reduced rates

    yes ovm that was my point except for nlm or other boards. When the carrier's are dealing direct with shippers their rates per mile doesn't seem to have gone down. Now when the middle man has been added like NLM or other bid boards the rates I know have come down. Brokers and Carriers are...
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    reduced rates

    layout, this year are you having any of your shippers tring to get you to reduce your rates because "everbody' else is. i have met drivers at truckstops that have said they have seen at the shippers what their an other companies are charging, between $2.50 upto $4.00 a mile for small trucks.
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    reduced rates

    I am and independant. I have gotten on fedx, conway, and abf web site and worked there instant quote system the rates they were going to charge me was over $2. 00 amile sometimes agreat deal more than 2 dollars under 3000 lbs shorter than 15 feet. And those rates were LTL not expedited.
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    reduced rates

    I have been hearing o/os complaining about their rates being reduced from various companies. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong. It appears to me that driver pay per mile has gone down. but company rate charged to shipper has not. Comanies are doing this to off set the reduction of...
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    Is this normal?

    I just went through 1 st year dot audit per dot cv sprinters are not required to have drug test. companies usually require it because if you get in accident it shows that they the company went the extra effort to hire safe drivers. Furthermore a company can get in trouble if they tell you you...
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    An expediters prayer

    Looking for loads all over the place sBooking loads to all the wrong place sLooking for non LTL loads going to all the write placesLooking at cats all over the place sEven Canucks in someplace sOoh that cat how he pace sCooking a load to fill my empty place sOwing a load to to many place s
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    TV through the internet?

    hey J you can ,so i hear, buy this program where you can watch 2000 or so local channels from around the world from your computer. I ran into and expediter who said he did it for a while. i was getting e mail offers for one and ebay was selling a program also
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    An expediters prayer

    A tisket a tasket if I got a load I would be bombasket instead I need a casket.
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    TV through the internet?

    ovm turns loads down all the time because it would interrupt ncis
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    Major loss in the battle against cheap freight!!

    fedx exclusive use policy means only one customer's freight in truck at a time.
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    Anyone moving

    thx ovm I talked with the big E Saturday they said no trucks with in 100 miles of little rock. i am 55 from searcy.
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    New Guy

    before you get into expediting you better have a large cash reserve. This is a bad time for expediting and there is a large learning curve. Landstar pays well but they sit more
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    Anyone moving

    well i hope i have better luck in little rock. i am hoping for a load monday. i did just miss a load today going to north platte early saturday
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    Anyone moving

    just dropped off load in little rock ill probley go to petro for the weekend.
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    If I have a concern

    charles D you can talk to me. I dont have many marbles left
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    Anyone moving

    oiler roads not good southern in. power out everywhere dangling power lines trees on the road
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    Anyone moving

    picking up southern indiana going to cuba mo. no electricity southern in. pilot x92 closed no power
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    Caterpillar to cut 20,000 jobs

    some people like and occasional pot luck stew.
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    New expedite vehicle available?

    were is pickup charles and delivery
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    Caterpillar to cut 20,000 jobs

    roadpig i am serious. ovm aimed his insult at one man. A racist insults a whole ethnic group. I would have preferd ovm not have insulted president Obama. In these tring times we need to get this economy back on track. An no i am not a democrat.
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