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Band Equipment Transportation for the entertainment, film and music industry

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Exhibitors and Exhibit Houses work with Xpeditious Unlimited to get: comprehensive, personalized service on specialized van line, motor freight and air
Need Help Getting your Show on the Road?
Shipping fragile exhibit materials, high-value products and last-minute printed literature to trade shows requires a high level of service to meet time-critical deadlines and exposition industry requirements.

Make sure your high-priority shipments are given the attention they deserve, avoiding missed delivery deadlines that can result in:

Off-target drayage penalties of up to 30%
Overtime drayage charges
End-of-the-line unloading from the marshaling yard
Set-up labor at overtime rates
Exhibitors and Exhibit Houses work with Xpeditious Unlimited to get:

comprehensive, personalized service on specialized van line, motor freight and air freight service
expert advice on coordinating all aspects of your show program with your logistic needs
no-obligation quotes from multiple carriers with just one phone call.

Have you read the latest, Pollstar concert hotwire

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Pollstar is the only trade publication covering the worldwide concert industry. We have been supplying in-depth information to every professional concert promoter, booking agent, artist manager, facility executive and every other entity involved in the live entertainment business for more than 25 years. We produce a weekly print magazine for professionals and publish that information daily to the web via our paid subscription site at PollstarPro.com. Our free Pollstar.com website is for live music fans and contains the same high quality information that industry professionals use daily to route their tours.”


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Best Freight Systems

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Did you know that Xpeditious has over a collected 30 years experience in the freight and logistics industry?
Xpeditious has been handling the shipments of containers, break-bulk cargoes, shipping, logistics for years.
We have been providing freight, shipping and trucking services for commercial and residential shippers. Shipping services from and to any point within the United States, as well as shipping to all international destinations.
All requests for freight quotes are welcome, regardless of size, location or destination. You’ll find our agents knowledgeable and helpful.

What is a Freight Forwarder?

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An international freight forwarder is an agent for the exporter and can move cargo from “dock-to-door,” providing several significant services such as:

Advising on exporting costs including freight costs, port charges, consular fees, costs of special documentation, insurance costs and freight handling fees;
Preparing and filing required export documentation such as the bill of lading and routing appropriate documents to the seller, the buyer or a paying bank;
Advising on the most appropriate mode of cargo transport and making arrangements to pack and load the cargo;
Reserving the necessary cargo space on a vessel, aircraft, train, or truck.
Making arrangements with overseas customs brokers to ensure that the goods and documents comply with customs regulations.
Export freight forwarders are licensed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to handle airfreight and the Federal Maritime Commission to handle ocean freight.

Best freight company

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Xpeditious Unlimited is your number one choice as the best freight company coast to coast.
We can reliably move your band from city to city so you can focus on what’s important, the music.

We are your premiere International Freight Forwarder & Customs Broker
World Class Shipping is an international freight forwarder and customs broker operating out of New York, Chicago Los Angeles, Cleveland, Thailand and Dubai, UAE offering premium logistics services to businesses worldwide. Our personal service, expert knowledge of freight forwarding and customs brokerage is unrivaled.
Utilizing a network of over 450 agents worldwide, our dedicated professionals ship valuable commodities with the utmost professionalism and ease. We are a global leader in freight forwarding and logistics on the web, having serviced thousands of customers directly from Xpeditious Unlimited Get a shipping quote today >

We are Logistics for the Planet!

How to Plan and Organize a Tour for Your Band

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If you’re in a band, you’re eventually going to want to tour. This can be a complicated endeavor, so you’ll want to plan in advance. Here’s how.
Make sure you have written at least one album. Not a couple of songs, an entire album; you’ll need a lot of songs for your shows. Plan on having enough material to play a 45 minute to hour-long set, plus one or two encore numbers (think positive – you want those encores!).

2Save up money for a few months. Each person should have enough money to pay for his/her own food on the tour and the band should have some money to get started off with – you will need gas for the van, some upkeep money for oil, transmission, brake fluids, etc., and sundry money for sundry needs – maybe one of you will get a cold, and need some NyQuil or something. It’s best to be prepared with more than you think you’ll need.
3Get a van, or a car with a trailer. You need the trailer to hold your instruments and equipment. A 12 or 15-Passenger van (i.e. Chevy Express 3500) is preferable because they are spacious enough to be comfortable but also get good gas mileage for what they are. With a van you also want to get some sort of roadside assistance such as AAA or Better World Club and keep your vehicle in good working order, especially for longer tours.

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US INDICTS FORMER AIR FRANCE CARGO EXECS

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[dcs_p]A US court has indicted two former Air France Cargo executives for conspiring to fix airfreight surcharges and rates.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ), which brought the case to court, claims Marc Boudier (near right), former executive vice-president cargo, and Jean Charles Foucault (far right), former vice-president cargo, sales and marketing, participated in the conspiracy from at least as early as August 2004 until February 2006. They are said to have participated in, or directed the participation of subordinate employees in, meetings and communications to discuss rates for air cargo shipments.

As well as fixing surcharges and rates to and from locations within the US and elsewhere, they are also charged with refusing to pay their customers commissions on surcharges.

Boudier and Foucault face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a US$1 million fine each. The fine may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory amount.

A total of 21 airlines and 21 executives, including Boudier and Foucault, have been charged in the DoJ’s ongoing investigation into cargo price fixing. To date, more than $1.8 billion in criminal fines have been imposed and four executives, such as British Airways’ Keith Packer, have been sentenced to serve prison time. Charges are pending against the remaining 17 executives, including Boudier and Foucault.[/dcs_p]

Get yer Red Fang tickets

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Murder the Mountains OUT NOW.
Record Release show April 30th at Branx Get tickets
RED FANG
Branx
Portland, OR

SATURDAY, APRIL 30TH

RED FANG (RECORD RELEASE)
MONGOLOID VILLAGE
LORD DYING
DRUNK LADIES

BRANX 320 SE 2ND AVE
ALL AGES | BAR W/ ID | 8PM | $10 ADVANCE

In 2005, David Sullivan, Maurice Bryan Giles, Aaron Beam, and John Sherman consolidated their powers to form RED FANG. They played their first, legendary show on the final night of that year, welcoming 2006 with buckets of sweat and splinters of destruction. Exactly one year later, they were opening for The Melvins and Big Business.

In their previous bands, the members of Red Fang created difficult, complicated, challenging music. With Red Fang, they take a different approach, returning to what initially inspired them to form bands – heavy, exciting, sometimes threatening music that at first appears simple and straightforward, but whose sophistication reveals itself upon repeated listening.

The progenitors were bands like Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, Slayer, and The Melvins, but there are a crop of contemporary bands that exhibit the same inspirational combination of heaviness, deceptive simplicity, and catchiness – Hot Snakes, Big Business, The Melvins, and QOTSA.

It is Red Fang’s goal to create music that, as writer Lance Chess describes, “appeals to both the thinking and the banging head.”