Fuel for Thought

A Personal High

This is the kind of load that makes expediting interesting.

1906       loaded at shipper

1908       arrive at consignee

1918       empty/proof of delivery submitted

1922       load paperwork scanned

The load picked up at a small airfield. Delivery was to the second driveway down the street. I was thinking the aircrew might not appreciate me making money off of a load that they could have carried by hand a distance less than the length of some airport terminals, but before I could pull out of my parking space for my one and a half minute drive to the delivery, they were already taxiing towards the runway. I wasn’t the only one on a schedule.

$657 per loaded mile is an extreme example, but it shows why I prefer to compare all my miles to all my pay. $657 is certainly not what I was paid, and it doesn’t account for the two hours of deadhead. The loaded miles were better measured in feet. There was also a two hour delay and extra waiting for the freight to arrive. In the end, comparing all miles to all pay, I still did pretty well. And it was real expedited freight. When I walked in, the receiving clerk pointed and said, “I know what that is.”

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