is panther dropping the position boards tonight?

slfisher45

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

I'm home. A QC message to a dispatcher should answer your question.

It's seems they (J. ST. Pierre or ) sends a QC message stating that information.
 

FAMILYEXPDT

Seasoned Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

Nope...we would have heard about it.....they only do that when high volume of loads vs low volume trucks...not a lot of people take labor day off and still quite a few number of loads. Now watch Buffy make a liar out of me.


-charlotte
 

Falligator

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

I haven't heard nothing either. I'm home now but still willing to run. Just got a run from Richmond, Va to beaver Falls, OH i was down in VA Beach when i got the load. they've been giving me my board position and that was an hour ago for Akron.
 

Falligator

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

i also talked to a dispatcher and she said that they were going to send out a fleet message tomorrow about the boards being dropped tomorrow.
 

Falligator

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

sorry, the fleet message is supposed to be sent tomorrow don't know when the boards will be dropped
 

easyrider2697

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

Sure seemed like they did last night with all the junk load offers they sent me, I don't know if it was just the full moon or what?
 

greg334

Veteran Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

for us uneducated masses, what does it mean dropping the position boards?
 

FAMILYEXPDT

Seasoned Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

It means that if you are headed home for the holiday you will not get a refusal for loads that are not going closer to your home, and that if you are 6th out and a load comes over that is by your house you get priority...board position does not matter....where it delivers does.


-charlotte
 

Falligator

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

I know what you're talking about easyrider. they wanted me to go from Pittsburh, pa to emporium, pa and that is in the middle of nowhere for a 144 mi run. Although i have had a pretty good week so far with over 1000 loaded mi from monday to Wedsday. and now going from macedonia, oh to princeton. Can't drop til Friday at 0800 and i have to p/u at 1600 tonight.
 

Falligator

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

Just wondering what my chances of getting out west for the weekend are. lol i don't really want to go home since I'm already here and July really stunk so i am trying to recover from that month
 

easyrider2697

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

I am almost ashamed of the number of loads I have turned down in the last 12 hours, if I were to tell, I am sure I would get blasted for cherrypicking or something like that, but I have my reasons, been in this business for long enough to know better that to be sitting in the north east or the east coast for that matter on a Friday preceding a holiday weekend, I even took one of the loads( with a hefty bonus I might add) but as luck would have it it canceled 4 miles from shipper, so oh well dry run for 60 miles of deadhead, not too bad on my book.
 

are12

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

We would gladly take a load to the Northeast since we live in that area.
 

pelicn

Veteran Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

Hey Arlene....want our Boston load? I hate going to that place! LOL
 

Falligator

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

I was just at the Flying J this week off of I 95 in Maryland at Exit 100 and they wanted me to dh to BenSalem, PA and take a load 86 mi into NY City to the Ny Transit Authority on 11th AVE. That was one load i turned down....they gave it to me at 7pm and wanted me to wait for it until 0900 to p/u and drop at 1100. The next load they sent me was from DC to Norfolk, VA. then got a load from Richmond, VA to Beaverfalls, PA and here I am at home going from Macedonia, OH to Princeton, IN but i can't p/u until 1600.
 

are12

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

We would gladly take it, Boston puts us about 5 hours from the house!!

NYC, they can keep. That is only about 2 1/2 hrs from the house but the roads are terrible!!
 

pelicn

Veteran Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

We left the quiet of a cornfield in NC...for Boston traffic...no wonder they say Expediters are nuts. LOL Happy Labor Day Everyone
 

unorthodoxneon

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

Well its 6:30PM and still NO QC message. I guess nobody gets a free ride home for the weekend. Oh well its only labor day who cares about work.
 

rmctt2

Seasoned Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

Hey Pelican;
Be nice to us Bostonians !!!LOL
Wish I were there now !
Will be back home in October for 3 weeks !!
Cape Cod, here I come !!
RMCTT2
 

Falligator

Expert Expediter
RE: is panther dropping the position boards tonigh

The northeast is neat especially during October. I was in Gettysburgh, PA on Halloween night. That was pretty cool! like a spooky movie set.
 
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