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No need to apologize. I didn't mean to sound harsh. Written words can be percieved differently than intended. I figured someone more qualified would have responded by now. I would think that most carriers, especially the small to mid-size carriers would love to share freight with someone...

Have gou considered/contacted Load1? Seems to be a lot of happy campers over there.

You may need to have a liitle more patience. Its been less than an hour. Somebody qualified to give a good answer will be along. Could be an hour could be a day or two.

Not sure what the felony will do to ya. You could call a few of the carriers listed on the EO homepage and find out.

Sure thats what they want to do. My point is that even if they do get somebody to run an expedited load cheap, its a matter of time until they put one of those loads on a truck and the driver takes a hot load home for the weekend and delivers it a day late. You, me and everybody else have...

Ive got money that says if there are carriers posting true expedite loads on general freight load boards, the practice will be short lived...along with the carrier, if their not very careful. If expedite freight was the same as general freight, there would be no need for the entire expedite...

Gotta give it to him...he's resourceful. I'm not a trusting soul, but if you had a load headed that way...some free help driving. Might be a good, hard working guy just down on his luck.

It was the Ryder Cup...sorry...I'll go back and fix it :D

Kinda cool...kinda funny. I picked up a load of stage equipment to be delivered just outside of L'ville. I didnt really pay much attention to the consignee until our safety manager called. It was a nice weekend load. So Mark, the safety mgr calls on Friday and I answer the phone, he says "is...

I googled EDS and found that they are Expedited Delivery Service, the expedite division of Rush Trucking. Probably worth a look. You'll definitely want to talk to some people who know them though. After looking at their website, I think I have seen their trucks in the Detroit area, but thats...

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I have no knowledge of eds or Rush, but 70% is fair and 100% of fsc is expected. I dont advise you to rush into this. Read, read, read and then read some more here on this site. Learn all you can. Talk to some Rush drivers and if you can some ex-drivers. This industry is not something to jump...

Sorry to hear about your car. How was the house? Floods are devastating. We've had some rough one's here the last few years. Property can be replaced though.

Getting there. For clarification, do you own the van or will you be driving someone else's van leased to Rush? A good number for empty miles is 20%. Fuel surcharge is how the carriers offset the fluctuations in fuel price. My straight truck was being paid $1.25 per loaded mile + 32 cents per...

If you want any kind of decent answer, you'll have to provide some specifics of your agreement with the company you'll be working for. There are ALOT of threads on here discussing these things. Use the search function at the top right of the web page. Spend some time researching. Then you will...

It is a tough job to find the right company and the right fleet owner. You have to seek out a lot of people and a lot of information. Then you have to sort through all of that information to find the real truth. And the good news? After all that, it's still a toss up...lol. It aint easy....but...

If you just have the one ticket and want to see what points were assessed, you can go to the SMS website and use your company's dot # to pull up their info. In each measurement category, there is a listing of the invidual citations along with the scores assessed. Takes a little digging but you...

It will only get worse with time. Find somebody else to drive for. Spend some time here and do some research. Without knowing details of your contract, not a lot can be said. Im betting though, you can do better.

Great Post by the way. As for the dispatcher spending time on the road. It would help no doubt, but the better dispatchers have a respect for the drivers even without the experience of being on the road. I've had dispatchers tell me before "we know what you guys have to deal with to get this...

Sorry bud...thought surely she would let you claim at least PART ownership. :D I thought my old Mark Palmer Columbia should have been famous. It was when I bought it..lol.