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[CharlesD]

Sorry! My mistake. Panther pays vans $50 for a dry run.

So I could be making a profit off a driver's dry runs? I've been doing it wrong all along, passing all of it on to the driver. I guess I have a lot to learn if I want to be a big bad evil carrier.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

So I could be making a profit off a driver's dry runs? I've been doing it wrong all along, passing all of it on to the driver. I guess I have a lot to learn if I want to be a big bad evil carrier.

Ya gotta take your piece of the pie...after all it would be an administration charge...even if you kept just 10 bucks.

 

[Moot]

I see nothing wrong with a carrier getting a few bucks from a dry run. They have expenses tied to a load that cancels.

 

[CharlesD]

I see nothing wrong with a carrier getting a few bucks from a dry run. They have expenses tied to a load that cancels.

I know. Just poking fun.

Anyway, I don't take the amounts that some carriers do, because in the case of a dry run, the deadheading and other hassle was incurred by the driver, so in my book, the driver should get most of the revenue from the dry runs. I've only had two dry runs on loads I had booked for another driver so far. Both were relatively short runs and I was able to get decent money on the dry runs. Based on what people have said that carriers are paying drivers for dry runs, and what I have gotten for dry runs from other carriers, it would seem that they're making a pretty good profit off them. I don't mind getting a few dollars, but I'm not going to keep half of it for myself when the driver is the one who had to incur the costs for nothing.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

I know. Just poking fun.

Anyway, I don't take the amounts that some carriers do, because in the case of a dry run, the deadheading and other hassle was incurred by the driver, so in my book, the driver should get most of the revenue from the dry runs. I've only had two dry runs on loads I had booked for another driver so far. Both were relatively short runs and I was able to get decent money on the dry runs. Based on what people have said that carriers are paying drivers for dry runs, and what I have gotten for dry runs from other carriers, it would seem that they're making a pretty good profit off them. I don't mind getting a few dollars, but I'm not going to keep half of it for myself when the driver is the one who had to incur the costs for nothing.

You are a good man Charlie Brown....

 

[mjolnir131]

You are a good man Charlie Brown....

Watch out he's going to ask you to kick a football next.

 

[RLENT]

Are there any drivers in here who still get 62% of the fee that your carrier charges the shipper when a load cancells?

58% of 95% ....... D and E units would get higher (62% of 95% I think)

Highest one I ever got was $137.10 ...... but I did drive 116 miles to the shipper on that one .....

 

[Jefferson3000]

Sure. It's the money game. I've had bids in with three differerent sources at the same time for the same load. Nickel or so difference with each one. SSSoooo. if the load cancelled with a couple, usually weren't a problem not running. Two CAN play the money game ya know. If, for some reason two acceptances came in for what I figgured wuz the same load and I were wrong, i'd jes tell the second one that called "took ya too long, i'm loaded". Two can play the multiple truck game too. Problem is, most ya got the tail wagg'in the dog.

Very common, especially in the day when you have carriers bidding on loads from NLM, Aero and Ryder before they even know if they can cover it. Three of them will post the loads within 10-15 minutes. I've even had two or three people call me to handle the same run. I tell the first, "Sorry, I'm just too far to pick up by closing." Five minutes later, my phone rings from someone else checking where I am. The more advance notice with a load, the more that client is likely to shop it around.