Who are the expediting companies?

well i hope everything works out for you.

 

networking, basically any trade pays better for 40 hours it dosent take decades to make 100.000

 

AquariusDoll if you got sat radio that guy kevin rutheford or something at 10pm eastern on channel 146 has books and websites helping o/o look his stuff up he said he used to do fedex o/o if i remember correctly

 

Not true in every scenario mate, most of the guys where I work make over 60k base, but ya most work about 48 for that extra cash.

 

Check out http://www.expeditersonline.com/forum/ for information on expediting. You are missing the Expediting Expo (http://expediteexpo.com/) right now. It is held every summer in July.


FedEx Custom Critical
Panther
Load On
Bolt Express
Landstar Express
Try Hours
Try State

are some of the larger expediting companies.

Most often with expediting companies you do not work directly for one of the companies, you work for one of their fleet owners. The companies usually will put you in touch with fleet owners in your area that are looking for drivers. Most will take on new drivers without any expedience.

Express freight is run on Vans, Straight Trucks, and Tracker Trailers and the pay can very a lot. The best opportunities in express are usually for teams.

 

An expediting company is or was a company that took small amounts of freight on an "emergency" basis from a shipper to a consignee. Roberts Express started the truck type of expediting but it's been around for a long long time. Most of the shipping happened in the Automotive industry where they were using Just In Time manufacturing/inventory control and would have to have a material or parts picked up quickly and taken to their plant straight through.

BUT this has changed. Those companies have diversified, there isn't really a lot of true expedite freight, no matter what the companies say. A lot of it is "opps' freight - we forgot to get it on the truck - stuff.

Panther, Landstar, and others, even FedEx all use the word expedite as a selling point now.

OK understand that.

OK why?

This isn't an easy business and for most who don't grow up in it, or have some exposure, the failure rate is rather high.

I own trucks, I don't have a trucking company. If I wasn't so bent on not dealing with the day by day operations of owning them, I would make more money but it isn't for the short term that I own them, it is a long term plan. It took me about 6 years to get it together and that is after weeks on the road and hours of talking and buying coffee and food for those who have been doing this for a long time.

The positive people were the ones who I stayed away from because there was always a catch to what they were telling me, so I listened, kept notes and kept looking around.

Those are the ones who YOU listen to, you find out why they failed or are failing and try to learn from that. See here is what I learned a long time ago, YOU can't just find out on your own, you have people who depend on you to keep them working and by having an attitude that you will learn by trial and error seems to say "I don't respect my workers".

There are a lot more downfalls and pits in this industry, mainly because of the size of it. I've never had to worry about things in the past with other businesses but this one I worry about a lot of things.

What degrees?

Unless you have an English degree, or some obscure field of study, I think you can apply something from them to a business, if nothing else it is a discipline that will help you.

Figure that your income would be about $45k for the first few years. and I would recommend that you get into the business by being in the driver's seat.

 

I'm calling ******** on the it doesn't take decades to make 100k a year. Most people never make that who have been working for 20, 30, or even 40 years. Only a small percentage of people in the US make over a 100k a year. I will agree with you that trucking is on the low end of the trade skill pay if not dead last.