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Lack of freight or decent-paying freight. Expediters can find themselves waiting longer than they wish to get a good paying load. They can generally be as busy as they want to be if they run cheap, but why would you want to do that? That's like working 14 hours a day to earn eight hours pay.

Can you say more about your reasons for considering a career change into expediting? I'm not sure I understand your meaning. Looking at the future is always more fun than looking at the present. In the present you feel real pain. While you may admit that the future will have pain too, that's...

There are people who have desk jobs and love them, and there are people who have desk jobs and hate them. So too with expediting. Think deeply about what it is exactly that you hate about the "B.S. corporate desk job." Is it the people, policies, unfair working conditions, lack of a fair...

Our three-axle truck has a manufacturer's GVWR of 54,600 lbs. and 48,600 lbs. under the FWHA bridge formula. It is registered for 47,000 lbs. The curb weight (all equipment on board, fuel and water tanks full, no freight) is about 34,000 lbs., leaving a theoretical payload of 13,000 lbs. The...