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    Expediter Friend Glen Rice Now in Hospice

    A number of veteran expediters will remember Glen Rice, who was a role model and good friend to the expediting community for many years. It has been my honor to spend the last six days with him at the hospital and to support him now in hospice as his death approaches. Glen was hospitalized last...
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    Would you haul this?

    It has been years since my wife and I hauled freight, but your post reminds me of the few times when people tried to get bad freight onto our truck, and the liability for the shipment onto us. No! No! No! is the correct answer to your question. The instant you put it on your van, everyone...
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    Tracking software

    Artificial intelligence is coming on strong; making it possible for people to design apps without knowing code. It takes a little doing to learn how to talk to AI, but AI apps like ChatGPT, Google's Bard and Microsoft's chat app in the Edge browser, might help you get the app you want. It would...
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    How Much Does a Shower Cost?

    It's been a while since my wife and I worked on the road as expediters. What is the going rate for a truck stop shower these days? If I drove in and wanted to buy a shower with no fuel purchase or points, what's the price?
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    Lawrence McCord

    Wow! I'm only now learning this news and it saddens me. Lawrence was instrumental in recruiting Diane and me into the expediting business in 2003. He and others were working the EO booth at the MATS truck show. Then researching the trucking industry as a possible career, we discovered EO and...
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    Impact on Expediters of CA AB5?

    The situation is beginning to clarify. https://www.transportdive.com/news/landstar-ab5-independent-contractors-trucking-owner-operators-california/627787/
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    Impact on Expediters of CA AB5?

    Law takes effect tomorrow. Much remains unknown. https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ab5-independent-california-truckers-scramble-scotus-refuses-to-hear-challenge/
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    Impact on Expediters of CA AB5?

    Yep. Distinct possibility. Extra cost to the shipper. Highly problematic for security loads. Bad for the earth as more land and energy must be used to support the load.
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    Impact on Expediters of CA AB5?

    California is a strange state in a number of ways, especially when it comes to government regulation. Diane and I saw it when we were expediters. We see it in the gym business we're in now as we hear about the challenges our California counterparts face. I don't know why anyone would want to do...
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    Impact on Expediters of CA AB5?

    This is the most informative article I have seen on this so far. But it's written before the Supreme Court decision to not take up the case was known. I've found nothing online from any source that says what truckers and motor carriers will actually do now that the decision is known and AB5 is...
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    Impact on Expediters of CA AB5?

    In 2013, California regulations were one of three factors that prompted us to leave expediting after 10 wonderful years on the road (CR-Unit). Now we read this breaking news that essentially makes it illegal to be an independent owner-operator in California. I'm curious to know what impact, if...
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    CDL accounting

    I just got the Kindle version for $0.99.
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    Impacts of COVID-19 on Expedited Trucking

    Interested to know what has changed since this article was first published.
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    The State of Freight Today (Coronavirus Effects)?

    The FL governor closed all gyms on 3/20. On 4/1, he issued his "Safer At Home" order which restricts everyone to staying at home for 30 days. There are exceptions for essential activities and services. The list is quite broad (healthcare workers, first res ponders, financial services people...
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    The State of Freight Today (Coronavirus Effects)?

    That is correct. By order of the governor, our gym was closed Friday afternoon. On Saturday, normally a busy shopping day, our strip mall parking lot was empty. While many of our neighboring businesses were not required to close, most did, because nobody was coming.
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    The State of Freight Today (Coronavirus Effects)?

    As former expediters, now retail business owners (gym), Diane and I are looking to EO to get a better sense of the true state of things. We realize we're in the midst of rapidly developing and rapidly changing pandemic situation. Still, the state of freight has always been a good economic...
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    This Could be Big; Amazon "Free" Freight Brokerage

    https://www.freightwaves.com/news/breaking-amazons-digital-freight-brokerage-platform-goes-live
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    Are Brokers Doomed?

    Totally automated freight brokerage. No humans involved. If brokers go away, what changes for: 1. Drivers? 2. Dispatchers? 3. Motor Carriers? 4. Shippers?
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    There is NO DRIVER SHORTAGE

    I stumbled upon this article today which made me curious. Walmart wants to hire 900 truckers and pay them nearly $90,000 a year. Has the driver shortage become a real thing? Diane and drove ten years from 2003-2013 and there was talk the entire time about a driver shortage but it was not...
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    How Has Electronic Logging Changed the Trucking Industry?

    With demand high, how much have rates increased? Ten cents a mile? Twenty? More? Now days, for a straight truck, what's a good rate on a good run? I don't mean the occasional, cake-frosting loads that make you cheer. I mean the bread-and-butter load offers that are good enough to get you to...
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