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Stopped at a service plaza on I-44 in Oklahoma, East of Tulsa, watching a tornado-producing storm coming our way. Waiting here for storm to pass before resuming our westbound trip. Should be over in an hour or so. Softball-size hail is reported in the NOAA weather radio warning. Quiet here for...

This shows how much driver (team) experiences can vary within the Landstar system. It has never happened to Diane and me that we lost out on two loads in the manner described above. To receive a total of 23 load offers (different than load announcements), we'd have to wait more like two weeks to...

Re: QRe: Landstar info please You have it mostly right but not on this point. We saw ourselves losing loads not to the freight division of FedEx but to the newly purchased reefer trailers owned and preferentially dispatched by our own division of FedEx, FedEx Custom Critical.

The logic of the article is fundamentally flawed. Reducing the productivity of the entire industry with a rule change that mandates a 30 minute break is not the same thing as reducing supply. Also, the marketplace is affected by many more factors than supply and demand alone. I do not know...

Diane and I have not seen this remodeled Gary, IN, truck stop yet but the feature list is in line with what is appearing in all remodeled TA and Petro sites. Truck stops are an important, indeed vital, part of an expediter's life and work on the road. Imagine what life would be like if there...

I do not know the answers to the questions you ask above, Moose.

That kind of perceptual error leads some to fail at Landstar where they may do well in a centralized dispatch system. Errant drivers assume that things are a certain way when, in fact, they are not. A driver who thought he or she had an idea of what human nature is, and proceeded to do business...

You don't understand Landstar agents by understanding human nature. You understand Landstar agents by understanding each one individually. I am not a Landstar agent, but if I was, and if I had two equally trusted drivers to choose from, and one of them bought me and Diane dinner (sent a gift...

As I said in Post #35 above, to fully exploit the Landstar advantage, you need to think deeper. You need to stop thinking that you know what Landstar is, and instead open your mind and look at Landstar as if you have never seen anything like it before. Set aside what you think you know about...

It does not have to be complicated. When I started eating less and exercising more, the pounds came off and I felt better. There are lots of things you can do but why make it more difficult than it needs to be?

You are never sure what will happen on a long weekend but we stayed out as is our custom. Sitting in Denver, just got booked on two loads. First picks up today and delivers straight through. Next picks up at that location and takes us cross country. We'll be working all weekend for $1.80 per...

State Patrol said, "For reasons unknown at this point in time, the semi struck the overhead of the bridge causing the collapse," The truck made it off the bridge and the driver remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators. Other reports indicate that it was an oversize load that...

One of the easiest, best and most-effective exercises I have found that can be done inside any truck or van that you can stand up in is knee lifts. Begin by standing with both feet on the ground. Lift one knee to raise one foot off the ground. Return to the standing position. Do the same with...

At this moment, career trucker Glen Rice, who is well known to many in the expediting community, is in the hospital because of DVT. He made his delivery (as "Keep on truck'n" Glen Rice is prone to do) and went to the hospital where he was diagnosed with heart failure and multiple blood clots in...

That's an interesting point. If the new rules stick, there will certainly be times when that mandated 30 minute stop, or number of stops on long runs, will bump a driver beyond the point when the shipping and receiving department closes, pushing the pick up or delivery into the next day, or...

I have questions and concerns about the new rules too, still unanswered, but finding a safe place to park is not among them. How is finding a safe place to park under the new rules any different from finding a safe place to park under the old rules? We're in straight trucks. Parking is not...

It is a serious matter, Zorry, to accuse someone of manipulating facts, especially when that someone has written for publications, and even edited one for a time, that people rely upon for industry information. I have not once manipulated a fact in my writings, blog or this Open Fourm. Now...

Thank you, TruckingSurv. Since you seem open to it, let me share a way to think about Landstar that is not commonly expressed. Some folks like to compare Landstar to their centralized-dispatch carrier and say Landstar is different because dispatch is decentralized. That's true, but what does...

Our numbers are what they are, and there is no need for a grain of salt with them. That's exactly what we did in 2012. But I know of no Landstar Express America BCO that grosses over $300,000 a year and I want to be quick to point out that I was not the one that mentioned the number. Our numbers...

What facts are manipulated? None that I know of. Specifics? People reading the Open Forum in search of facts have found me to be a consistently reliable source for the same, because manipulating facts is not something I do.