Longest Load Accept Streek

[ABEJR2004]

Has anyone ever made an attempt to take every run offered over a set time say 3 months and then break it all down to see if it was worth it or not. Right now I am at 25 of 26 and figure so far to have lost on at least 4 because of DH to a Pick-Up or DH out of a bad area.

Working on the numbers now.



AbeJr
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[davekc]

This is where your cost per mile (CPM) is necessary. Once you have a true number, you will be able to plug that into your formula and determine if a run has any profit in it.
Depending on circumstances, it may take several runs to make up for the loss on the unprofitable ones.
Do everything you can to look at the whole picture. You sound like you are on the right track investigating all the info.



Davekc
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[Broompilot]

Well how is this (I am bragging) last month, I went for two weeks that their was either freight on the truck or another load waiting. Dispatch even scheduled in for me two 34 hour breaks to get my 70 back. Right time right place but it felt great to be that booked....and of course to have a team behind me that works that hard.

Anther driver even commmented to me, I could be driving along, freight and a BOL would find a way into the truck...

 

[ABEJR2004]

Now Thats what I am talking about, everything just comming together.

Hey do you think Dispatchers would really let you know what freight lane are the busiest, or more likely to have you sit in a express center just to have it covered.


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[greg334]

Yea, every run for 4 months, no s**t!

Great money but overall my return trip from FL killed everything for me, had to come home for personal reasons – no choice and was told I wasn’t out long enough to use the back haul service.

 

[Broompilot]

The one thing I enjoy about C&M is we do not have these Express Centers. There are no customers that we have to bow down to for but kissing. Need a load covered in Philly to Detroit if your in Allentown your most likely gona get the call. Customer is informed truck will be there in 1.5 hours and will be updated.

If I unload in Columbus OH, and there are three trucks within 100 miles but no one in Indy, I am heading to Sugarland, simple, neat, and they work with you to keep loaded and its all my choice but maybee their suggestion.

Other drivers, do you find that when you get rolling two loads two good cities that it just seems to me thats loads just start to keep comming. Once you break the system, (for what ever reason) that its difficult to get the rythem back into the flow. I do my best to keep rolling, and not say no to anything once it gets going.

 

[vipra]

I take every load I'm offered because in this expediting biz the alternative to a bad load is often no load at all. I'd rather take a bad load and have to do a long deadhead after it then turn down the bad load and then sit all day twiddling my thumbs and making zero dollars.

 

[Broompilot]

Not all of us run for FECC, there is no art where I am at that I know of. Some not so good cities and some great. Freight Zones change monthly, weekly and daily. Atlanta might be great for three months than stink for a month. I do not understand the comment Art & Science.

My dispatch is striaght up, Texas in Jan, Feb, and March was terrible, now its picked up still not hot just able to move with some wait. Now come July it will be on fire if its anything like last year.

So if its a general comment, we (I) would love to learn more about this Art to sharpen my skills and be as knowlegable as others who are experts at this question of knowing where freight just might be hotter in one area than others...

 

[greg334]

Broom, I agree.

You know that I posted objections a while ago about another EO members (unnamed but well known) who said pretty much you can predict the freight for any given time.

Look it is really simple – unless there is a need for an item to be moved from point A to point B and quickly, there is no work. Predicting in today’s economy is now more like throwing chicken bones as you say a chant – things change and so do customer’s needs.

 

[ATeam]

I'm the one that said load acceptance is as much an art as it is a science, but for some reason the post was deleted. There was nothing controversial in what I said. No explaination was given for the deletion (presumably by a moderator).

Load acceptance is as much an art as a science. While four weeks of 100% load acceptance may be a bit long, accepting every load for a period of time, say 30 days, especially when you are new, is a very good way to get a feel for the game.

Accepting every load for your first month frees you from having to worry about whether you are doing the right thing or not. In a month, your other expediting skills like operate Qualcomm, complete paperwork, plan trips, and secure freight will be well in hand. With those items addressed, you can review your runs and know from them what loads are better than others.

 

[bryan]

Hi
8 years! Of course then I found out I could turn down loads.It just never crossed my mind so I never asked.

The only loads I turn down now is the ones under 200 miles loaded with more than 50 miles empty.I don't understand why the customers call an expedite company when they could get a courier to haul the load cheaper?Or why expedited companies accept short trips that most expediter don't want but couriers would love to have?

 

[roadweazel]

I worked for a Local Courior in Cincinnati, my company would do do 200 mile run in a heart beat. Now the 400+ runs would have to be hot freight for us to move it for the customer. Company thought it was a waste to send a drver out 400 miles and dead head back to cincinnati, but i did it all the time(company driver fuel cost to company) but not ever did they try to get me a back haul. i would have gladly waited a half- to full day for a load coming back. Since i was a company driver i got paid commission and empty drive back is 38% of 0..

 

[bamapeople2006]

I am employing the same strategy as we speak. Since the first of March, I have only turned down one load and it was more than 8 hours in advance of the pick up time, so I was not charged with a refusal, thus maintaining a 100% acceptance percentage to date. The reason I do this is simple. It curries favor with dispatch. For example, dispatch isn't going to waste time with a driver who turns down a great deal of loads. They will save the time and go to the driver who can be counted on to accept the load, almost everytime. Other than right place/right time circumstances, this is what enables drivers to be offered great loads with nice FSCs to boot. Just my humble opinion.