Me too! This has been a crazy week. According to my calculations Panther booked over 950 loads yesterday.We've had the same experience.
So This is the Slow Time of Yr....
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Considering how many trucks they have available..that is not many.......were they CV loads, tractors? No one knows....and then when are the pick up dates? Sunday, Monday, Wednesday?....who knows......and of that total ..How many were sold and or brokered out? And how many returned because no one would take a crappy load and not sold.....
Drive Less, Make more.......Moot
OVM........you need to get out of that van and spend some time in the office.
Carrier has roughly 1000 total vehicles. A third are out of service whether truck repairs, vacation, no driver, ect.
That leaves about 600 or so vehicles. Of that number, a third are on current loads for that day that were previously booked a day or two earlier.
Not everyone is empty at 8am.on Friday.
150 loads go to brokers because of rates, garbage loads, lack of coverage or vehicle size ect. (The loads YOUR carrier sometimes hauls). Many at good rates.
Another hundred or so are "other date" loads for the week end or Monday pick ups.
Probably another 50 to 100 are air freight.
I would say that leaves plenty for the others to run IF they so desire based on a 950 load count for that day.
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Sorry Dave...thought you had a bigger fleet...
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Good for the survivors if the fleet is reduced a little...But by the number of new members asking questions lately it looks like recruiters are going to be busy....
ChrisGa23
Expert Expediter
where do you see how many loads are booked? Can you also see what loads do get booked?
Better yet spend some quality time on your therapist's couch. All I did was post a load count for one day in reply to Pelicn's post who in-turn was replying to Davekc's post. The three of us are Panther Pals and in no way was my post meant to start a whizzing contest with you over my company being bigger than yours.
As far as van, T/T, straight truck, brokered out, pick up dates, crappy or canceled loads: I don't care!!! This was but a simple load count for a single day. I use this number as a crude gauge to determine freight volume at the company I am leased to. I would suspect that your company's load count may mirror Panther's but on a smaller scale. See, mine is bigger than yours!
tryhoursnot
Seasoned Expediter
Glad for you. Don't know what type of rig you drive but as we all know that have been in this business for any amount of time, that is FAR FAR from any norm. The better norm is this: I leased on to Try-Hours Red Hot Freight Expediters (the red hot comes from red hot operators who are sitting with no freight!) on Tuesday, 02/08/2011. At approx 2200 hours on Wednesday, 02/09/2011, I sat with no freight until 1000 hours on 02/11/2011. I then ran a load paid a whole 245 miles and guess what. I again all day. Then I got a load that paid a whole 112 miles and would you believe it, I have been sitting for almost 18 hours again and I still have another 20 hours to sit before I get to pickup my next load. And folks, this is not grocery warehouse sitting waiting to get loaded or unloaded. This is sitting with no load and no expectation of a load. So let's figure your average truck driver whether company or owner runs a modest 2500 miles a week. I have run 850 miles since 02/08/2011. Since that is the date I leased on, I am still in the hole from upfront costs to lease on including Qualcomm install, up front insurance, drug screening, etc, etc, etc. I am on day 6 now of my lease and have run again only 850 miles so I am in the red still. Now don't get me wrong, I know that Try-Hours is not on the only company out there that does this because THEY ALL DO! They all do this to the drivers/owner-ops and yet all of these company office employees still earn their full salaries month in and month out no matter how much the TRUE MONEY MAKER of any company, the trucker, sits. Yes, I sound angry and bitter because I am. All a trucker wants to do is run and make money. All we usually do is sit and watch our blood pressure rise. Someone please help show the corp types that there is a forest there that you can see through the trees if you will just get your head out of your (_y_) long enough to care.
I'm glad you are sitting because I wouldn't want to be sharing the road with you and your current state of mind. Maybe you should find another line of work or share some couch time with OVM.
So what exactly where you expecting? as you said this is expediting....nothing is guaranteed...as most know the worm turns on a dime...next thing you know you could be begging for a break...it is the way of things....were you really thinking you'd be running constantly? It does not work that way....and Tryhours being a smaller carrier has probably not a lot of it's own customer base and depends almost solely on the load boards....the scraps tossed aside from bigger carriers....Anyways good luck
Thanks for the kind words pal...
My sessions are over..and the meds are kicking in..
Do you use the generic stuff or as you do with Sprinter parts stick to OEM meds.
Thanks for the kind words pal...
You're welcome! You better get back to work, you were sounding like a cranky old man last night.
Yup...leaving for your part of the woods this morning...probably be in Summit SD for the night...