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Originally Posted by sjmay
Super 8,
I know what you are saying, are you looking for a starting point? Meaning, you want to know before you go to Place A, that there is freight coming out of there going back to Place A, right? If so, wouldn't you just put in the destination city first?
I'm unsure of whether it's a good idea to take on another load before I've unloaded the first one, given the possibility of an unexpected delay. I don't know how other people do things, but I never used to call my dispatcher until I was unloaded and ready to go.
The reload doesn't necessarily have to get me back home. It just needs to take me past home. For example, My first load could take me to Michigan. Then I could grab something bound for Wisconsin. On my way there I go practically right past my home.
When I was a company driver, it seemed like they were always getting me more or less back into my area with my reloads. As an Owner Op, I won't have a dispatcher to rely upon to set this stuff up. I'll have to know how to do it myself.
I'm not as concerned about where I'm going as I am about knowing I can get back. I'm trying to keep this a local as possible. I don't mind being gone a night or two, but being gone all the time is not going to work for my situation. I figure between Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee, there has got to be enough freight running that I can keep busy and get past home. I'm just uncertain of how to do this using the load boards when you can't punch in a starting and destination radius and see all the freight going to and from those points.
Obviously it's an inexperience issue on my part. I'm sure there's a simple way to work this out that I am not aware of.