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Remember, it's a different deal for a guy driving his truck than it is for a small company with drivers. You can tailor your schedule to fit freight to a large extent. Nothing good headed to FL this week, do some other loads until you find a decent one. When you've got trucks and drivers, you have to get people home for TAH, you have to get trucks home for scheduled maintenance, etc. On any given day from any given area finding that good rate to FL might be tough. I wouldn't be headed to FL from here anytime soon, I'll tell ya that :shock:
At least it's warm there...I'm freezing my ass off. Some vacation :roll: :lol:
First my condolences on the weather . Actually it's been relatively cool here but today was real nice. I bought the local paper and was looking at the weather around the country and christ it's cold out there. Like 30 in Detroit and I saw Soutern Cal in the 50's I think. This is paradise here though I had to go into Hialeah today and that is one nasty part of the city. Also went through Liberty City. Originally Posted by no_worries
Some areas have been so cheap for so long that even the shippers know...I think I told you about the asparagus wholesaler down there. Remember, it's a different deal for a guy driving his truck than it is for a small company with drivers. You can tailor your schedule to fit freight to a large extent. Nothing good headed to FL this week, do some other loads until you find a decent one. When you've got trucks and drivers, you have to get people home for TAH, you have to get trucks home for scheduled maintenance, etc. On any given day from any given area finding that good rate to FL might be tough. I wouldn't be headed to FL from here anytime soon, I'll tell ya that :shock:
At least it's warm there...I'm freezing my ass off. Some vacation :roll: :lol:
So no_worries, it's not so easy to get here as I thought then. But you say on any given day... finding that good rate to FL might be tough but what I don't understand is why? I mean if there is no freight out of here and plenty going in, then in my naive way I'm thinking every load coming in is good. Why doesn't it work that way?
Actually I spent a few hours with my friend the other day. I was showing him some of the things I picked up since I've been out there like fuel routing and stuff. He was shocked. I was watching his dispatcher work, and really I think as far as just running the truck I am doing better on my own then if I was him. He knows I want to work with him again and he knows what I can offer. He even made the point that I am contributing more then he can (showing him all that stuff). He has 14 trucks plus 2 other he works with plus mine comes to 17.
So I can offer 17 trucks. I just need to capitalize on the capacity. Like I said he told me to try and find good inbound freight. Like I said though I remember LCT showing me their customer list and explaining why I needed to keep returning to Florida (I wanted to roam around the country) so from this I assumed that they could come in cheaper as they had good paying freight out. Well a lot of that was juice and that's not good paying so maybe they had freight out not good paying freight.
Boy the headaches of having drivers. When I was at the office they were trying to track down a truck who didn't make it to his delivery. They had to pull up cell phone records and they finally located him. The girl that answered said he had a panic attack and went to the hospital and was given a shot. This girl was supposedly his fiancee but the guy is married.
My friend was a lot cooler than I would have been. I don't brook foolishness nor irresponsibilty lightly. Finish you work then go fool with the girl. That was a possible claim situation.