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Originally Posted by Orangetxguy
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Originally Posted by Cam
Haul expensive $&!+.
If the crap in back costs a lot of money, it's much more likely they don't mind paying you pretty good to pull it. That is all.
LOL... 8) 8) Are you saying that your California turn, worked out really well for you there Cam ???
You did the turn...and came out ahead, without expending a lot of effort ??? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hey man, I'm not all that deep, not too hard to read, huh? :lol: :lol: :lol:
The kicker was the load going back to the house. She said, 'sorry, but the load doesn't pick up until Saturday',...blah, blah, blah...one day of layover...blah, blah, blah...$165...! It's great, four hours of paid deadhead to the tank wash! Freightliner's going to do a three axle alignment tomorrow. My Saturday load in Freeport takes me right down to Mulberry Florida, practically right in my back yard! I told the woman, 'I've never been with a company that paid so much layover so easily!'
Now I know, percentage guys are making high rates and don't get layover. I'm not competing with that, it's just that this is looking like the best driving gig I've come across.
But then I started thinking about it, 5,000 gallons of losurf or whatever it's called probably costs a lot of money. Like I said to the dispatcher, there just seems to be 'more money in this game'. Then I thought about a job like Bandit's Cousin has, and he must be making money hand over fist even without the bull shitting. :lol:
You know in dry vans, we pull all kinds of cheap products, empty racks, things like that. I once had a load, the entire contents could have fit into a large cargo van, at least a step van.
As you may have read, I was bitter about my start in tanking. Well, my mourning has turned into dancing, I think I really have found a better gig. When Mike and Maniac described it as 'the best kept secret in trucking', I was listening and paying attention. I think I'd prefer to haul electronic$ for Allied or maybe Mercede$ Benz's, I mean there still remains those absolute best jobs in trucking, but this gig looks like a whole nother level above what I was doing.