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OntarioVanMan · Jul 21, 2007

col...some people need a reality check

over and over and over..the choice of trip acceptance is BOTH personal and business...What i choose to run is mine and mine alones choice.

How prolific I wrote this here back in Feb. 2003:

"Luck, patience, toss in some restraint and a pinch of internal fortitude and the belief that good things happen to good people and just maybe we may make it in this topsy turvy business!"

4 years later....???

BTW...bonus?? It must be still in the mail....*L*

Vinnie T · Jul 21, 2007

One mans load to a dead zone, is another mans load to his house.

This is why that ND load was covered, by a driver that lives that way. But that driver in order to get out for the week, must have to drive empty to a better area, or dead head a lot to pick something up.

This is why these obscure loads get covered for the same rate without bonuses.

OntarioVanMan · Jul 21, 2007

DH??? DH??? I have 400 miles just to get out of SD to Souix Falls!!!
BUT...Thats me....I don't mind abit.

Moot · Jul 21, 2007

I never expected a bonus. The only thing I expect when asking for extra money is to be turned down. When I am told there are other trucks in the area then I must decide to take the load at the going rate or decline it knowing someone else will probably take it. I can live with that. My point is there will usually be someone willing to take a load no matter what the price or where it is going.

Back in April I ran two loads from St. Paul to Winnipeg. I asked for and received an extra $150 both times. I have also been successful getting extra money for loads going into Montana and Saskatchewan. Places I know I have to deadhead out of.

lanier1 · Jul 21, 2007

I got hit with a dispatch offer this morning for Monday pick up and delivery. I had to turn it down twice before they got the money to an acceptable, albeit not good, level. Both times I figured someone else would take it but it made it back to me. Naturally it was automotive freight. Frankly, I am glad we don't have any more of that than we do.

joebob1_30132 · Jul 21, 2007

lets rock is right ..there is the chance that this snowballing excitment about expediting will bring in more people wanting to do it ..dont make me do th 5 loads 10 trucks or the 5 truck 10 loads equation again....I say more Expose more promotion lets peak everybody's intetest,,lets do a show on the history channel..ice expediters..(you know how many truckers will be up norht next year to do the Ice highwy... ) lots of trucks little freight who wins ..lots of freight few trucks who wins...promote promote promote.. common lawerence ,,more promotion ..let everybody know how great it is ...th eonly winners in the future of expediting will be vendors carriers and fleet owners...got my class A at the school ther were almost as many "B" class students as A guess what //there gonna be hot shotters...they heard of this cool way to truck see the country and make tons of money....i told them good luck fellas it is a great life...so make room freinds. there sre gonna be a few more commong to dinner..

greg334 · Jul 21, 2007

NLM will not increase the rates or have anything to do with it. There is a lot more to it that just having a tier 1 supply rating or carriers involved. The got hundreds of carriers sitting on the sidelines waiting for a load.