June idle chit chat and banter and freight hauling
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well.....how on % where is that line?.....since there is no fixed point.....80% of a $1.00 or 80% of .80?...
EDIT:..Because the bottom baseline is set by the operator on what he or she is willing to accept....
personally I think anything less then .90 -$1.00 is cheap.....but I keep hearing cheers of " we got a great rate on this load when they come out with like .82! and I am like really? LOL
I understand....we all operate what others would call "different"...
with all we know of previous experience with the border towns....why do some continue to go there and then wait 2-3 days and DH out?....the load inbound now becomes a cheap load....
just the expectation to be loaded within 3 days and then belly ache about not getting loaded becomes old news....LOL
just the expectation to be loaded within 3 days and then belly ache about not getting loaded becomes old news....LOL
Yes, it is. However, that 600 miles can be very different if it's all on your own dime to relocate to a better area, versus having at least the fuel paid by someone else for the same relocation. I've never been talked into a paid relocation, unless I wasn't already considering deadheading there on my own dime already.
Yep. One inescapable truth about trucking is, too much deadhead will kill you, and it doesn't take very much for it to become too much. I am dead set against deadheading, especially when it's deadheading in the same direction that paying freight would otherwise take me.
I will, absolutely, stubbornly sit too long after a delivery instead of deadheading to find a load. I did it two weeks ago when I sat in south Florida for 2 days, then grudgingly deadheaded up to Fort Pierce for 3 days, then to St Marys, GA for 4 days over the weekend (when the Orlando shootings happened), then up to Savannah for a couple of days, where i finally got loaded. I should have just dropped, slept and then gone up to Savannah or the Carolinas right away. But I've gotten too many loads out of south Florida to give up so quickly. And I hate deadhead.
Turts, at least you were smart enough not to dh 600 miles for only 35cpm.
You could have DH to the Carolinas and still sat for seven days, it's still a gamble.
Waiting for that hot summer we were supposed to get. Slept fanless in PA, cracked a door at noon when outside got over 80, it's hotter in Canada
You really need a load to Phoenix. It's beautiful down there. Breathtaking.
Empty in Louisville early AM . Nice drive from New Hampshire, but felt like it took forever to get here. Waiting about 2 hours to unload didn't help. Thankfully able to find shade and get a little sleep. It was so humid when I got here I had my doubts.
Agenda for today: More rest.
Agenda for today: More rest.
Loading in 2 hours in Dallas, TX for Fri morning delivery in Narrowsburg, NY...1,551 loaded miles.