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I haven't been on here much lately and I'd say I have some pretty good excuses. There's been a bit of a shakeup with the company, mainly that I am once again having to wear multiple hats and I'm running myself ragged. Anyway, it all started, or rather came to a head when we had an unusual...

We cross docked some freight yesterday from a Sprinter to a truck. Only problem is we only have a truck dock, so unloading the Sprinter was loads of fun. I've been looking around the internet for options for handling vans from a truck dock and I came across this interesting item. It looks...

We're seeing a lot of folks, brokers mostly, wanting to pay pretty weird amounts for detention, layover, dry runs, and what not lately. I get the impression that the entire amount isn't being passed through completely and people are skimming off the top every stop along the way. People that...

Got the forklift, dock plate, and pallet jack delivered yesterday, so we now have a functional cross dock. Now how long until people start beating our door down to use it? I got a Crown 3 wheel electric. The thing is extremely maneuverable and very quiet, except with the backup beeping...

I'm curious how your company handles first out, or what your opinion is. For the record, I believe in a pretty strict first in first out policy, all things being equal regarding truck size, team or solo, and any other items like a liftgate. With that said, we have come across a few grey areas...

I've posted...I lost count how many I've posted...and I haven't booked one of them all day. People are either shopping stuff around like crazy or just fishing for quotes, but you'd think the numbers would swing in my favor sooner or later. The funny thing is that every time I post a load it's...

I've enjoyed working from home, but the time has come to move on. Starting in the new space tomorrow morning with three people, dispatchers to move in when the cubicles are installed in a couple weeks. Anyway, my little corner office isn't bad. [/URL]

We're now a broker. Just got the broker authority and the bond in place a few days ago and we've brokered a whopping one load so far. Now we just need to get something of a customer base built up so we can have something to broker on occasion. We've been trying to build up something of a...

I found this guy in our driveway, no mother in sight, and he was very weak and sick, maybe a month old tops, and we've been bottle feeding him because he doesn't seem to know what to do with solid food yet. If he's going to stick around, he's going to have to pull his weight, so I'm...

I just saw a 4500 lb load posted for a Sprinter, so I decided to email the company who had it listed to see if the vehicle type had been selected by accident, because we have a straight truck in the area and would have liked to do the load. I got an email back from someone who said that they...

We've been pretty careful about not doing this, but the longer I've been in this business and learned more about where freight comes from and the number of times a load is brokered at times, it got me to wondering how much of a grey area there is with this topic of back soliciting. When I...

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Just wondering what everyone would consider the cutoff in terms of miles for what you would consider a short load that should pay higher. I quoted a couple 300 mile straight truck loads this morning and was told that "We don't have anywhere near that much money in that." I've always considered...

There's a load posted that says a liftgate is needed on both ends. I've seen plenty of trucks with a liftgate on the back of the trailer, but I've never seen one on the other end of the truck. Is this something new?

feet to a mile. One of them, or 2000 of them, same number of feet. Headed away from your house or headed toward your house, same number of feet. Same cost per to operate your truck as well. Why can't some people figure that out?

One of our drivers started using a nice smart phone app to send paperwork in. It's called Drive Axle. You just take a picture of your paperwork one page at a time, put in an email address, and the recipient will get an email with a link to download the document as a PDF file. A few more of...

We have one driver who is Mr. Professional. Everything is yes sir, no sir, please and thank you, the whole nine yards, former military and extremely respectful with everyone. Last week he went in to pick up a load and it wasn't ready yet. He asked the shipper when it would be ready and was...

What was the fuel surcharge originally implemented for? I always thought it was supposed to be a separate bit of money passed through to the purchaser of the fuel, but here's what is happening out there. The people who have the freight, with the exception of NLM and a couple others, are...

My brother has a load on board heading to KY for a Monday drop and was planning on a weekend at home, home currently being West Liberty, KY, which was just hit by a tornado today. We haven't been able to contact anyone yet, so we're currently waiting. He and his co driver both have family...