I think it's an understandable error, which is why I addressed it here. I realize you weren't attempting to characterize expediting as a whole, but in the context of your questions, that's how it appeared. The questions you asked, and the answers to those questions, applied mainly to cargo van expediting, not to straight and tractors. It's bad enough that 99% of the "Is everybody else as slow as me?" threads are cargo van related, but they give the impression that expediting as a whole is in the toilet, when it's really not. Some of the questions you asked were good ones, with respect to cargo vans, but they don't really belong in a thread that is promoting the industry and the Expo.
For example, "Is the expediting market over saturated with owner/ops?" Well, no, not really. The van segment sure is, but the expediting market as a whole certainly isn't. "What percentage of people coming in are actually surviving past 3 mo, 6 mo, 1yr & beyond?" Well, for cargo vans, it's a really small percentage. For straight trucks it's a very high percentage. "Are newbies getting a real picture of the market?" Newp. Not vanners, anyway. If they did get a real picture of the market, they wouldn't be told by carrier after carrier that they aren't taking on any new cargo vans because they can't keep the ones they have loaded, and then decide to go ahead and enter the market anyway as an independent using multiple brokers.
