Originally Posted by Orange Andy

None of my business, but wondering STeve, were none of those loads from where you were sitting, Albuerquerqe, to Denver good enough payers? I know one was paying 830.00, I called on it, for 406 miles. Or is it that hard to get something from there to home? Like said, easy for us to judge your judgement. It looked like there was lots more freight going east than N. Mex. ? Safe travels

Originally Posted by rank

You don't have to take all 50 you greedy bugger. They would be there whenever you needed them.

Originally Posted by ash_ca_la

So Steve

That load you hauled out of Okla City how heavy was it ??? If those walls were 8 ft tall by 35 ft long why did'nt they just lay them flat on the trailer instead of standing them up leaning agienst each other ??? I would have thought that flat on the trailer would have been safer ??? Is that scale at Joplin still a PITA ???

Originally Posted by BanditsCousin

Tootie, quit proving the Rev wrong. he's obviously quit Graebel, as he denounced being the only bedbugger left on CAD :wink:

Also, making a "profit" off each man on your clock is part of the role we call in HHG "a local contractor". Been there done that.

Of course, you shouldn't believe everything you readon the internet, or hear 2nd hand :wink:

Originally Posted by SteveBooth

I've tried going from one load to another and before I started doing this I was an arm chair dispatcher like a lot of other people and yes, it sounds simple BUT IT'S NOT. It sounds good on paper but it just doesn't work.

By the time you find another load, do the paperwork because your not setup with them and get to the load point, your way out of hours. I stop driving at 3pm and am out of hours and when I try to load again it's like 6 to 9pm when I'm done and I am absolutely dead.

Then you leave the place and try to find a place to park for the night and there's nothing around and the closest truck stop is 50 miles away and you know there won't be any spots.

So right about now your looking for that bottle of Midol and ready to kill anyone who even thinks about cutting in front of you.

Your squirming around in your seat because you literally sweat your ass off and it feels like someone is sticking your azz with needles.

So you find a place on a ramp or a rest area and you spend the next hour trying to clean yourself off with baby wipes, paper towels, bottled water over your trash barrel with soap and anything else you can think of. You try and put clean underware on but end up just tearing it off and throwing it away because it became part of you hours ago.

You also realize that your hands will not appear clean for 3 days as the dye from the gloves has permanently marked your skin.

So now you can relax and heat up some of your emergency crapola you have under your bunk but what you really want is to gorge yourself until your STUPID and the biggest buffet in the world.

You pick up your rate agreement and notice that you now have 3 days to drive 2,200 miles. Why, because the broker or shipper thinks because you picked up the load today you can drive 600 miles. The Hell with your internal schedule and what happened before you showed up.

So in the end, you really haven't gained anything by picking up that load after dropping off in the same day. The only thing you've gained is a butt load of problems.

Some people can do it. Myself, I would rather drop the load off, drive the 50 to 75 miles to a truck stop, shower, fuel up then sit in my bunk and arrange the next load for the morning.

It's really the paper work that drags you down. It's always 10 to 20 pages of crap, insurance companies needing to be involved and fax fax fax fax fax. It's like, give me the freaking address and I'll do the paper work over the next 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by BigDiesel

A 1000 mile deadhead !!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Did you account for those miles in your profit margin ?????

Nevermind..... Steve has no clue in how to run a business....... :lol: :lol:

Originally Posted by tootie04

Sometimes you just get yourself in to a mess....steve has always gotten himself out of that hole before and had no reason to think he couldnt again.