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We have had fresh fish in Portland, Sea food in Louisiana, southern dinners in Georgia, west coast delights in Seattle, Alligator in Florida and Mexican dishes in Laredo. We have driven over 500000 miles across the good ole USA. We have traveled across Canada. We have sold our truck and I...

I ran across this news release and was wondering is this a good or bad thing for us expediters? What is your opinion and why? News: Fleets FedEx Freight Adds A.M. Delivery 1/19/2009 FedEx Freight is now offering FedEx Freight A.M. delivery, ensuring delivery by 10:30 a.m. backed by...

Our good friend and expediter Lisa who is known here on EO as mssnow suffered a serious stroke earlier this week. She is in ICU at Freemont Hospital in Toledo Ohio. Lisa and her husband John have been around this expediting business for several years and many of you have met them. Please keep...

It could be just me. How can there be more interest on how Panther sucks then Senate bill s2910. This bill can effect every truck in America and should be of interest to anyone who owns or operates a truck. If passed this bill will effect you in some way. Some say it will help some say it won't...

Just wondering what the one(just one) most important thing you are going to change in 2008 to make your business more profitable and why you think this change will help? I am in hopes we can all learn something with this. Ours is to try to increase our acceptance another 10%. After reviewing...

A couple weeks back Robin and I took our truck to AA Sleeper to have a few adjustments made. As soon as we arrived at AA Sleeper the staff started making the adjustments that we wanted. Work was of very good quality and quickly completed. We had the opportunity to meet Larry who owns AA Sleeper...

On Thursday Robin and I was in the area of OOIDA and decided to stop in introduce ourselves and visit with the OOIDA staff. These people are awesome as we were able to tour the facility and visit with any department we wanted. We spent over three hours visiting with different departments. We...

We called to check on our settlements and discovered our truck insurance went up 28%. I was just wondering has everyone? I did call our insurance company and inquired about it and was told " Yes that is a large increase but that is what it is" Our agent offered no explanation. This means I need...

Just recently Robin and I took delivery of our new Peterbilt that we bought from Rush Peterbilt of Dallas Texas. We feel we should share our experience with this purchase. First we met with the sales agent Randy Mitchell who listened to us on what we wanted in the truck and the things we...

After all the feed back regarding putting together a C-unit we are now redirecting our focus on buying a D-unit. My question is would you buy a new unit or a used unit. Other than here where would you start your search for a good quality used unit? What year, truck,engine. Our plans are to run...

Robin and I real close to closing a deal on what I will refer to as a true C-unit. 2007 Kenworth 315 hp with 96 inch AA sleeper with 16 ABC box. Truck will be rated at under 26K GVW. We owned a D-unit in 2005 we had the M2. In 2006 we had a sprinter now we want to try a true C-unit. Tractor...

[font color="purple" size=+3]Fed[font color=blue]Ex [/font][/font][font color=gray]Custom Critical [/font] Joe and Robin Robin and I are thinking of putting together a C-unit. We love the Sprinter van but want to stay a little busier. We would like to hear from C-unit operators regarding...

Concrete truck driver 15 years Concrete sales mgr, 13 years. Expediter 2 years. FECC With 90.000 miles on my current tires I think it is now time to replace them. I was just wondering what brand of tires everyone has had the best luck with. Thanks in advance for your reply. God bless our...

Concrete truck driver 15 years Concrete sales mgr, 13 years. Expediter 1.5 years. Any imput on the best place to buy and have installed the Espar system? Thanks Bigjoep89

Concrete truck driver 15 years Concrete sales mgr, 13 years. Expediter Newbee. Praise for Bentz. I made my first trip to the Bentz company to have them look into a minor problem with our sleeper unit. Man was I impressed. Upon arrival they took our truck straight into a bay and fixed the...

Robin and I have purchased our truck and are scheduled for orientation on the 6th of April. After a lot of research and advice from the good people of these boards we have deicide who we are going to lease with. We bought our truck from the good people at FYDA. We had a lot of questions and...