Tag: FedEx Custom Critical

Business
Making the jump: Cost, profit potential, biz basics of adding trucks on offer at Expedite Expo
Panelists talk about how experience as leased owner-ops “made it a lot easier” to make the transition to managing contracts, financing pieces of equipment.
July 20, 2018
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More from former driver, military logistics pro on small fleet for driving vets
Military veteran Rob Ahlers talks further about his mission establishing small fleet MSR Transport Services, planning to lease trucks to FedEx and Panther driven by military veterans.
November 11, 2014
Military trucks lined up in the motor pool. Photos courtesy of Rob Ahlers.
Business
AA&E: Where the money is, if anywhere, in military freight
FedEx custom-critical expediters Andy and Myrian Johnson are sunny about high-security military freight, where the money is -- if it’s anywhere -- in the defense-department niche.
February 7, 2014
Andy and Myrian Johnson and FedEx Custom Critical truck
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Expediter meets vintage Coke machine meets pro golfer Brandt Snedeker
What happens? One odd load for husband-wife team owner-operators Bob and Linda Caffee.
November 19, 2012
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Business
Expedited advantage, part 2: Pay
In a poll of owner-operators at OverdriveOnline.com, more than 60 percent of respondents called the potential for better income the chief attraction of expediting. More on pay in part 2 of this series.
November 16, 2012
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Business
Expedited advantage, part 1: Equipment, carriers
The time-sensitive freight niche could be one of the last profitable bastions of irregular route long-haul, offering fuel mileage and other reduced costs, more income on fewer miles and load and lane novelty.
November 14, 2012
Bob and Linda Caffee
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Pride & Polish: Business class?
Expediting owner-operators Linda and Bob Caffee, after participating in the GATS Pride & Polish in 2012, offered up an idea for a new class focused on biz performance and professionalism.
October 1, 2012
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Business
Fuel’s Gold
Owner-operators find big money and good schedules working the oil and gas services boom.
July 2, 2012
Kristin Stump says her typical day, if starting empty, begins with a run to a rail yard where sand is loaded into her pneumatic dry-bulk trailer. Driving small roads, typically, in West Virginia, she’s escorted to the well site, where sand is loaded into a storage bin. In a five-day work week, “I doubt if we do much more than 800 miles,” she says.
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Crude hauling in N.D., Texas with former expediters
A story in this month’s Truckers News followed the transition of the former FedEx Custom Critical expediting team of Mark Kathrein and Wendy Wing (pictured) into a crude-hauling operation in North Dakota. Just as the May magazine was going to press, as mentioned in the story, the ultra-rugged, cold climes of North Dakota gas-and-oil-well trucking […]
May 12, 2012
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Business
Truck parking issues
Truck parking is always an issue and more so with our present carrier that prohibits truck parking on the street.
March 12, 2012
Business
The wisdom of calling ahead
I learned (relearned) today the wisdom of calling ahead. Learned when not doing so cost us an extra stop and when doing so saved us a hassle at our upcoming delivery. Diane and I woke up this morning at a small truck stop in upstate New York. We drove from there to our pick up. […]
March 9, 2012
Channel 19
Let the (fuel-mileage) games begin!
When owner-operator Henry Albert proposed that he test speed’s effect on fuel mileage on his blog Feb. 22 by dropping his top speed from 65 to 60, he sparked a wellspring of commentary from his readers. At first, he marveled at all the reaction. In the end, however, it’s easily explained: simple, quantifiable results are […]
February 27, 2012
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