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Last Monday, she hit a jackpot TWICE on a slot for $1,800 and I cleaned up at 3-Card with $3,765....... it can be good and bad, but the MOST I will ever walk out down is the $100 I came in with. As for your load search Tracer, I hope something comes up for you soon...... still think you should move over the bridge tho and get them gravy runs!! |
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It's 11 am local time in Sparks (Reno) Nevada on Monday and the load board is pretty much empty. I did have an interesting email exchange with the agent who couldn't find his customer on Friday. Remember I wrote about a good LTL out of CALI? I emailed him again this morning updating on my location and he wrote back saying the load had been covered by the "customer" (I hate this word because often it refers to another broker!). Frustrated, I asked him how many middlemen were involved in this load ("2, 3 or 5?") and he said '0'!
Turns out he has a direct relationship with this buyer of some used equipment and the only reason he didn't find him on Friday was because the dealer in question was traveling somewhere in the Eastern USA and he didn't get the email from the Agent until the end of the day on Friday. He must be on AT&T :) Anyway, I sent the Agent my trailer spec sheet in PDF (kind of like a extended version of a business card; I find most Agents love to have it) and he wrote back thanking me and saying a few times a year they have freight between Reno, NV and Ontario, Canada (2-way shipment). So, it's a good thing I kept my shirt on and was polite in my emails. It looks like I'm building a network of agents that might have some freight for me in the future. The important thing now is to keep my cell phone number unchanged even when I get my own authority ;) |
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I'm still at the TA in Sparks Nevada ... Been working with the load board the entire day. One agent posted a load from Las Vegas NV to Edmonton Alberta saying the distance was 1,451 miles; the rate per mile was $3.22; and the total freight paid $4,675. Sounds good, right? But I read through the listing and at the very bottom it says, "Drop in Regina"! Now the mileage from Las Vegas to Edmonton VIA Regina SK is 1,931 miles so the actual rate is $2.41 per mile, not $3.22. I hate when these guys do this, so I emailed the Agent and the Agent Administrator at Landstar a complaint about this and asked the Agent to correct the listing. What do they think? That truckers cannot count?
I checked that listing on the Landstar board 10 minutes later and it now had a much more realistic per mile rate and mileage: 1,895 miles; $2.45 per mile. So, sometimes complaints do work! |
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