Take LDB for example... how many pages has he ripped out of his atlas now? But the thing with him is that we never hear him complaining about a lack of loads.
Those darn complain and blame drivers
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Take LDB for example... how many pages has he ripped out of his atlas now? But the thing with him is that we never hear him complaining about a lack of loads.
Take LDB for example... how many pages has he ripped out of his atlas now? But the thing with him is that we never hear him complaining about a lack of loads.
Exactly...but he makes them business decisions and lives with it....he knows it might cut into his earnings...he finds other means and does not complain when he has a bad week....decisions you live with...
Dakota
Veteran Expediter
greg334
Veteran Expediter
at home I wear my space cowboy Pj's....
Role playing?? ... never mind I don't want to even think that.
absolutely Charles...if it helps keep them rates up...
greg334
Veteran Expediter
I try to.
No canada, great more for me.
No NYC, great more for me.
No shorties, great making more money for me.
This is a business where it has evolved into two types, the ones who want to see the country as they want to, and those who actually work.
I heard a great one this morning, a trip to LA and back after three days of waiting for the load. It was reefer run and offered to a solo driver. It paid $1.75 a mile plus .20 for reefer and fsc. It was turned down because the driver was already out to LA and didn't want to go there again. The guy who took it was more than happy to get it.
Take LDB for example... how many pages has he ripped out of his atlas now? But the thing with him is that we never hear him complaining about a lack of loads.
Good, it's working. Everyone thinks I have a skinny only half full atlas and here I am going wherever the pay exceeds the no factor.
Dakota
Veteran Expediter
I wear the shorts once a year..for "special" type of people!!*LOL*
at home I wear my space cowboy Pj's....
Pictures or it didn't happen
Dakota
Veteran Expediter
Be on the PAD and Blow the Horn Every 15 min till I get a hammer Load. For my Birthday. HMMM
PlusServices
Seasoned Expediter
The first rule of Expediting is keep the wheels turning. Sitting or camping out does no one any good. Take the loads as they come and you may take a short load that gets you to a better area. You also should never get confrontational with the dispatchers. You might be one of those trucks who has your truck number on a postit on the dispatchers computer that say they turn down everything. Your best bet is not to say a bunch of stuff to the dispatcher about all the bad load offers and don't call me with any offers under 300 miles. Be friendly with the dispatchers, call them by name and give them yours. Take one for the team once in a while. Most dispatchers don't have much discretion and just offer loads out to the trucks in order of dwell time and distance to pick-up. Its not their fault so give them a break. Sometimes you might ask for a good load to back up a bad load. Stop looking at the individual day or load and get the big picture and look at the month or week. Have a game plan and learn to be flexible. This always worked for me and I started as a driver with no money in my pocket and now 5 years later I have 11 trucks on the road.
One week with Panther I was running 47 mile mini's and 150 milers back to back. I had been running day and night making multiple pick-ups and drops each day, only sleeping here and there in between the loads. I started on a monday and it was already Thursday morning and I had only done 600 miles. Next load offer was a 50 mile mini with a stop off; they couldn't tell me if it was two pick-ups or two stop offs.
So I said very forcefully "no" and explained to them that I had been working like crazy and not making jack. They were quite upset with me because I had never turned down a load before. They gave the load to some other driver who ended up spending all day on it and I got me a nice 500 mile run down south.
Dispatchers keep a sticky note on their computer with all of the truck numbers of the guys who will take any short load offered to them. That is how it works. Sometimes you got to man up and tell your company to shove those short loads. I know drivers with some companies who never take short loads and make a load of money. So, if not all the drivers will be a team player and do short runs; why should I do them all of the time?
So I said very forcefully "no" and explained to them that I had been working like crazy and not making jack. They were quite upset with me because I had never turned down a load before. They gave the load to some other driver who ended up spending all day on it and I got me a nice 500 mile run down south.
Dispatchers keep a sticky note on their computer with all of the truck numbers of the guys who will take any short load offered to them. That is how it works. Sometimes you got to man up and tell your company to shove those short loads. I know drivers with some companies who never take short loads and make a load of money. So, if not all the drivers will be a team player and do short runs; why should I do them all of the time?
johnpetrus
Seasoned Expediter
It seems to me, Any money is better than no money ? Maybe 'i'm wrong here but all loads need covered and when you are to good for a load ( not a load you have to dead head for ) You never know what you might get at the other end of the load at the very least you just made a couple hundred bucks than you had when you woke up ! You can sit and wait for days for that load paying $800.00 bucks or you can make it in the days your sitting ! When i have short loads like that i try to bid high on it to make the driver a little something extra ,this way i treat him good and hopefully he will remember and take the short load when i call him with it !