Less Than a Buck to laredo

[x06col]

I wonder if they are holding the load? You were with Panther and you get those every so often, but certainly not a steady diet of them.

That was my single largest beef with fedup. Many loads i picked up on Monday were booked Thursday or Friday, and instead of dispatching me so I could relax a bit over the weekend, they held it (and me hanging) until about 60 minutes before pickup. Actually it wasn't just over the weekend, it happened any day of the week.

 

[TeamCaffee]

I agree it is very frustrating to be dispatched on a load at last minute knowing that the load had actually been booked much earlier.

The other side of the coin is that we are offered loads for Monday and then while under that load and sitting we cannot haul a short load during the weekend.

It is no win situation either we are available for a long load till the last minute and then booked or we are booked on a load that leaves us the weekend free and not available for any short loads on the weekend.

 

[highway star]

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The other side of the coin is that we are offered loads for Monday and then while under that load and sitting we cannot haul a short load during the weekend.

????

If it wouldn't interfere, why not? Because the computer says so?

 

[TeamCaffee]

This is the fun stuff when you rely on computers instead of someone being able to think. If I understand this situation right once you are under a load you are only available for a pre assignment which means you can pickup a load AFTER you deliver. This situation has been brought up many times with all kinds of different reasons on why you can not do a short load while waiting to pickup another load.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

This is the fun stuff when you rely on computers instead of someone being able to think. If I understand this situation right once you are under a load you are only available for a pre assignment which means you can pickup a load AFTER you deliver. This situation has been brought up many times with all kinds of different reasons on why you can not do a short load while waiting to pickup another load.

Because crap happens..you pick on a Sat and deliver Sunday morning and consignee isn't open...even with a confirmation...now you are stuck loaded till Monday and you'll lose Mondays pre-assigned load...they won't take the chance...Murphys law..

 

[x06col]

it's pretty selfish of them....but that's business. I'd a prolly stayed at fedup till the end even with all their other baggage. BUT.....I was in many a place I would loved to explore, but, back in the day you couldn't get over a hunnert meters from the truck and not loose signal from the beeper. Was way happier doing my own thing and letting the dog wag the tail.

 

[greg334]

I thought that was a FedEx policy, not a computer thing. All the computer can do is what it is told to do, nothing else. If a "dispatcher" wants to get that override 'key' from a 'facilitator' then they justify the override and everything is good.

 

[TeamCaffee]

I thought that was a FedEx policy, not a computer thing. All the computer can do is what it is told to do, nothing else. If a "dispatcher" wants to get that override 'key' from a 'facilitator' then they justify the override and everything is good.

This is a computer thing and is a big deal. If I understand the procedure they first have to take you off of your current load dispatch you on the short load, then dispatch you on the load you were on as a pre assignment.

Anytime all of that happens many things can go go wrong. It would really have to be extenuating circumstances before the dispatcher would even consider going that far.

This has been discussed often and the ability to haul short loads while under dispatch. The consensus has been that this is not something that is encouraged.

 

[nightcreacher]

That was my single largest beef with fedup. Many loads i picked up on Monday were booked Thursday or Friday, and instead of dispatching me so I could relax a bit over the weekend, they held it (and me hanging) until about 60 minutes before pickup. Actually it wasn't just over the weekend, it happened any day of the week.

If you are dispatched Friday morning on a Monday afternoon pick up,2 things can happen.
1 you loose a long week end run delivering on Monday
2 company gets a run they need a truck to do,but non available
this is expedite,customers do call at the last minuet.
In the past, I have been on a load,and had FDCC get me a trailer so I could do a short load while I was waiting to deliver the 1st load.This happens almost never,this time was high value customer.

 

[nightcreacher]

I'm tired a reading all the bashing of FDCC.I have no reason to stick up for them.I am very happy where i am now.This system fits me great,Custom Critical could learn something from them,maybe their system wouldn't work if they were larger,but what we do keeps me very happy.All you people that keep complaining about FEDEX CC should maybe see if it might be yourselves that have problems.
As far as the non FEDEX people putting their 2 cents in,unless you actually have been there,all you really know is what you read.
Not all the loads at FDCC, are expedite loads,therefore the lower rate,there is no penalty for turning them down,stop complaining

 

[davekc]

Steve
Most of the complaining on this thread looks to be from their own drivers. With that said, I don't think someone has to be with a specific carrier to identify certain deficiencies.
Every carrier is likely to have a few.

 

[skyraider]

I m trying to figure out how u all do ur job with so much politics, u all must like all this fussing and circumstantial evidence like a bunch of old women on a party line. Just sell ur rigs and try out tractor supply at minimum wage and have to have someone to tell u when u can take a dump, retail is the pits. I will take all runs to Laredo for 85 cents a mile all day long and week after week,,no conplaindo senor.

 

[davekc]

I m trying to figure out how u all do ur job with so much politics, u all must like all this fussing and circumstantial evidence like a bunch of old women on a party line. Just sell ur rigs and try out tractor supply at minimum wage and have to have someone to tell u when u can take a dump, retail is the pits. I will take all runs to Laredo for 85 cents a mile all day long and week after week,,no conplaindo senor.

Might be able to go to Laredo in a van for for .85 a mile. Try doing that in a straight truck and that Tractor Supply gig will look mighty attractive.

 

[Jefferson3000]

I m trying to figure out how u all do ur job with so much politics, u all must like all this fussing and circumstantial evidence like a bunch of old women on a party line. Just sell ur rigs and try out tractor supply at minimum wage and have to have someone to tell u when u can take a dump, retail is the pits. I will take all runs to Laredo for 85 cents a mile all day long and week after week,,no conplaindo senor.

You are in a cargo van, correct? The complaints were about straight truck rates. It would be the equivalent of a load offering $.55 per mile to your van or less.

 

[skyraider]

Yep I'm n a van, creativity might help u all out if the same old thing creeps up week after week. My expenses are very low, and if I would run for 55 cents a mile, I can do it, but most of the time I'm at a buck a mile down to 95 cpm minimum,,i don't have to bid on it,,,that's where it stays week after week. I don't have any magic answers but one: don't eat out is my biggest waste of money, but it happens, lol. food in a van gets old, but life goes on. I can do it.

 

[greg334]

This is a computer thing and is a big deal.

It is a policy, the program was written that way specifically to prevent problems happening outside of the 'exclusive use' policies. Remember the customer is paying for that exclusive use truck at below market rates.

Once the load is booked and assigned, the truck is 'locked' on that load and only that load.

 

[x06col]

If you are dispatched Friday morning on a Monday afternoon pick up,2 things can happen.
1 you loose a long week end run delivering on Monday
2 company gets a run they need a truck to do,but non available
this is expedite,customers do call at the last minuet.
In the past, I have been on a load,and had FDCC get me a trailer so I could do a short load while I was waiting to deliver the 1st load.This happens almost never,this time was high value customer.

Ohhh, this is Expedite eh? Believe you didn't read ALL the info. Regardless, There were (some) places i've been that a weekend (or a weekday) break from truck (and the pigtale beeper) would have been a real reward while on the road. Problem is....the 9 to 5ers don't understand that. Then.....we have the real life believers that the ONLY quality down time is AT HOME. Life aint fair.....jes ain't fair!!

 

[x06col]

Yep I'm n a van, creativity might help u all out if the same old thing creeps up week after week. My expenses are very low, and if I would run for 55 cents a mile, I can do it, but most of the time I'm at a buck a mile down to 95 cpm minimum,,i don't have to bid on it,,,that's where it stays week after week. I don't have any magic answers but one: don't eat out is my biggest waste of money, but it happens, lol. food in a van gets old, but life goes on. I can do it.

There ya go there Sky. Control your costs of doing business and you'll control the world of business. It is pretty difficult for many to understand, I guess. Ya got folks throwing stones at you that are splitting the pie too much so....they need too much, makes no difference if they are too lazy to drive their own truck or, have wayyyy too much flow out for the flow in, for whatever reason. Tis a funny ting this need for all that big buks to survive, or thrive. Still, jes ain't fair.