RE: Which company actually cares about good driver
To answer your question about you running amount, I try to tell anyone new in the business or thinking about getting into the business of expediting that it is a whole new ball game from “regular truckingâ€.
#1
I always say that if you unload on Friday you can pretty much forget Saturday, Sunday and believe it or not usually Monday as far as getting a dispatch. In expediting if you have to sit those 3 days it can seem like an eternity, but in reality come Tuesday, you can be so busy you don’t know what to do with yourself.
#2
Don’t take a load just to be loaded, but if you can get a load you have to sit on for the weekend make sure you are delivering into a good loading area (remember the northwest is NOT a good loading area)
#3
Just because you have a bad week or two remember there a four weeks in the month and 52 in the year so just keep going slow and steady will win the ran more often than not.
And remember these are just my observations after 9 years in Expediting and 25 years of driving.
I happen to run a DR unit so maybe my experience is different from say a van or someone who mostly runs automotive.
To answer your question about you running amount, I try to tell anyone new in the business or thinking about getting into the business of expediting that it is a whole new ball game from “regular truckingâ€.
#1
I always say that if you unload on Friday you can pretty much forget Saturday, Sunday and believe it or not usually Monday as far as getting a dispatch. In expediting if you have to sit those 3 days it can seem like an eternity, but in reality come Tuesday, you can be so busy you don’t know what to do with yourself.
#2
Don’t take a load just to be loaded, but if you can get a load you have to sit on for the weekend make sure you are delivering into a good loading area (remember the northwest is NOT a good loading area)
#3
Just because you have a bad week or two remember there a four weeks in the month and 52 in the year so just keep going slow and steady will win the ran more often than not.
And remember these are just my observations after 9 years in Expediting and 25 years of driving.
I happen to run a DR unit so maybe my experience is different from say a van or someone who mostly runs automotive.