August location

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
After eclipsing the triple-digit mark with ease for the 39th day in a row, the record hung in the balance, with the temperature stuck at 105....:eek:
 

RoadKing06

Expert Expediter
Sitting in the Meijers parking lot in Wixom,MI waiting on a load to anywhere. Hoping for a home run this time though. ccould be awhile though 15 large straights we are currently #7. although only 20 minutes ago we were #9, so who knows. Dispatch is working their magic, I know they are!
 

Jenny

Veteran Expediter
After about 50hrs in Detroit we are loaded to Iowa. I really hope that things start to turn around a bit :/ I know as frustrating as it is to us, it is for dispatch because they have a bunch of angry drivers calling.
 

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
After about 50hrs in Detroit we are loaded to Iowa. I really hope that things start to turn around a bit :/ I know as frustrating as it is to us, it is for dispatch because they have a bunch of angry drivers calling.

The straights seem to be hopping well..sprinters still not so much....still a matter of right place, right time...
 

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
I don't know who makes these darned "projections" ...but my bones tell me bull crap....I don't see any bump till the last half of September till Christmas.....Do they break these "projections" down by truck size even?
The experts E-1 uses said August would be a bump month too...:eek:
 

jelliott

Veteran Expediter
Motor Carrier Executive
US Army
Don't think the experts predicted this tsunami in Washington and Wall Street. Very hard to predict or plan right now with all of this stuff. :(
 

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
Don't think the experts predicted this tsunami in Washington and Wall Street. Very hard to predict or plan right now with all of this stuff. :(

So the Japan thing was months ago...and all the news from Honda and Toyota last month was full production by late Sept to Oct......where the heck they come up with the August bump?

Do they break it down by truck size? I imagine not...
I am questioning the "experts" not you or Load 1....the data that they supply...which I know can be volatile..
 

guido4475

Not a Member
I am cool buddy..thanks...I had some hot wings last night so I am venting this morning in a way....LOL

So, in other ways, it would not be advisable to light a match at any given moment today?:eek:

Here it is, you are unable to work because youre van is down.

I cant work because freight is down.Starting to get real ****** off about this, now.Been patient enough.
 

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
So, in other ways, it would not be advisable to light a match at any given moment today?:eek:

Here it is, you are unable to work because youre van is down.

I cant work because freight is down.Starting to get real ****** off about this, now.Been patient enough.

so whatcha going to do about it? ya can't force shippers to ship? and the ones that are you'd be runnin on the cheap...
 

guido4475

Not a Member
so whatcha going to do about it? ya can't force shippers to ship? and the ones that are you'd be runnin on the cheap...

I know and hear what youre saying...But it is frustrating..feel like running around naked in the backyard, with arms up in the air, screaming at the top of my lungs to vent...But, wait!! Caryn just called, picking up in Rochester Hills, Mi, going to South Carolina....:eek::D
 

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
I know and hear what youre saying...But it is frustrating..feel like running around naked in the backyard, with arms up in the air, screaming at the top of my lungs to vent...But, wait!! Caryn just called, picking up in Rochester Hills, Mi, going to South Carolina....:eek::D

Wow about 200 miles of DH there....

hope ya get dressed first...LOL
 

RoadKing06

Expert Expediter
Still in Wixom, MI at the Meijers waiting for a load to anywhere. Soon, I am sure! dispatch is working hard for us.
 

golfournut

Veteran Expediter
After eclipsing the triple-digit mark with ease for the 39th day in a row, the record hung in the balance, with the temperature stuck at 105....:eek:

Cheeze, just another day in Texas. Supposed to get down to 59 here in the yard tonight. Gotta go buy a sleeping bag!
 
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