Dana/Suttles
#33
06-16-2008, 06:38 AM
Originally Posted by Maniac
$330 richer!
Barely enough to cover meals and expenses, don't get too excited yet, you still have to get out of there...........and to a better area like Houston. I have seen the light... :idea: ... :!: ... 
#35
06-16-2008, 11:44 AM
Originally Posted by Maniac
Are you kidding me! Van guys don't see that kind of layover money.
If sitting for $110 a day works for you, then do it. Not me, I'd have been in Houston and reloaded by now.
#36
06-24-2008, 02:14 AM
Originally Posted by Maniac
Are you kidding me! Van guys don't see that kind of layover money.
If sitting for $110 a day works for you, then do it. Not me, I'd have been in Houston and reloaded by now. I would rather spend a few hundred dollars for fuel, then be sitting in some truckstop for 3 and a half days for 300 dollars. I deadheaded 800 miles to WI from ND last week. No sense sitting somewhere where the loads are crap and far few in between. If you can't afford to deadhead, you aint made enough going in.
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#37
06-24-2008, 10:51 AM
Originally Posted by hoohaa
Originally Posted by Maniac
Are you kidding me! Van guys don't see that kind of layover money.
If sitting for $110 a day works for you, then do it. Not me, I'd have been in Houston and reloaded by now. I would rather spend a few hundred dollars for fuel, then be sitting in some truckstop for 3 and a half days for 300 dollars. I deadheaded 800 miles to WI from ND last week. No sense sitting somewhere where the loads are crap and far few in between. If you can't afford to deadhead, you aint made enough going in. 800 miles sounds like a hole lot of deadhead. I'm New to tanker work I drove from sturtevant, WI to Laredo, TX and dead headed 360 miles to the terminal I thought that was to much.. with the current fuel prices..Is this normal for tankers to dead head these miles?
#38
06-24-2008, 08:57 PM
Originally Posted by nsxman2001
Originally Posted by hoohaa
Originally Posted by Maniac
Are you kidding me! Van guys don't see that kind of layover money.
If sitting for $110 a day works for you, then do it. Not me, I'd have been in Houston and reloaded by now. I would rather spend a few hundred dollars for fuel, then be sitting in some truckstop for 3 and a half days for 300 dollars. I deadheaded 800 miles to WI from ND last week. No sense sitting somewhere where the loads are crap and far few in between. If you can't afford to deadhead, you aint made enough going in. 800 miles sounds like a hole lot of deadhead. I'm New to tanker work I drove from sturtevant, WI to Laredo, TX and dead headed 360 miles to the terminal I thought that was to much.. with the current fuel prices..Is this normal for tankers to dead head these miles? There are loads out of the Corpus Christie / Bishop / Victoria area's. Superior Carriers & Service Transport seem to have the lock on those though.
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#39
06-24-2008, 09:02 PM
It's been my experience that 30% deadhead is pretty common,over the course of a 125,000 mile year it looks bad but,in the end pay per actual mile reflects an ability to absorb it.
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#40
06-25-2008, 08:40 AM
Originally Posted by hoohaa
Originally Posted by Maniac
Are you kidding me! Van guys don't see that kind of layover money.
If sitting for $110 a day works for you, then do it. Not me, I'd have been in Houston and reloaded by now. I would rather spend a few hundred dollars for fuel, then be sitting in some truckstop for 3 and a half days for 300 dollars. I deadheaded 800 miles to WI from ND last week. No sense sitting somewhere where the loads are crap and far few in between. If you can't afford to deadhead, you aint made enough going in. That said, I have no personal pride in my pay package over another. In fact, I hope the percentage tanker drivers do make more than me. That means, with all these modifications that were made to my truck, I have good things to look forward to! How are you doing, HooHaa? |
