Roadlink,Pulling Containers
 

Just wondering if anyone knows about Roadlink or about being a O/O pulling containers?THX

Being an o/o pulling containers pay wise isn't the best but that depends on who your pulling for too! Also it depends on the company I believe you get paid round trip on all your loads, you pick up at a port usually and you take it to it's destination and then deadhead back to port. If you can't make port you can drop it on the yard and have a driver dray it meaning they take your box to port and you have to pay for it and that is usually $50 again depends on the company. Also if you can't make port you can ask whoever runs the terminal to have a driver bring the load and set it on the yard. With containers you have 20, 40, and 45 foot chassis. There is a difference between a standard chassis and a co-op chassis. a standard chassis is where a specific companies boxes go on their chassis such as if your pulling an Evergreen chassis only Evergreen boxes can go on an Evergreen Chassis. Now if it says co-op on the side then pretty much any box can go on that chassis! Also each chassis/box comes out a specific port and I believe there will usually be 3-4 ports in an area. Now if you doing rail yard work I'm not too familiar with that, I'm only really familiar with seaport operations. Hopefully I have been of some help to ya! Oh yeah if your doing seaports and your based of oh let's say Charleston, South Carolina. Your only gonna go to ports in Charleston, South Carolina since your box/chassis came out of port there it has to go back to that same port you got it out of.

Also I forgot to mention there will probably be times where you go somewhere and live load and bring it back to port for export.

ohioslim i pull containers out of st louis rail yards and know alot of o/o that do the same.most companies in stl area pay around $1 a mile both ways plus fuel.most are home every nite,but you need to know that containers are the arm pit of trucking,and there is a learning curve.here are some of the negatives,the chassis are junk,no brakes,lites,tube tires that go flat all the time due to the fact most loads are overwieght.not to mention dealing with the very unpleasant people that work at the railroad.i usually take a load out 150-300 miles,get empty then back to rail.that being said the positives are home every nite most times.thats about it.if you can put up with terrible equipment and rr employees,you can make a living at it.roadlink has some driver out of stl,but i have never talked to any of them.i hope that helps!

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Re: Roadlink,Pulling Containers
 

Hahaha..."owner operator" eh? Sure. You're nothing but a companyman with a truck payment and no benefits.

You'd be a fool to get yourself involved in the can-hauling biz. You think OTR is bad? Wait till you meet Maersk, Stacktrain, P&O NedLloyd and all the other cut-rate can lines.

Know what a "llantero" is? This guy grooves treads into bald tires with a hot knife. Why? Because these clowns who run the ports can't afford new tires.

It's a shame and a disgrace what goes on in our nation's ports. Why people put up with it is a mystery to me. But "that's truckin", I guess.

Dumbasses.

damn, bj. little personal today are ya. the thread i just read you aclled otr drivers losers. now you call container haulers dumbasses. what company is it that you work for again? i bet it sucks in some peoples opinions. i got banned for making personal insults like that, but yet you seem to still be here. and with absolutly nothing to say other than otr suck, and i am the best driver cause i drive for a local shit bag outfit to remain nameless. i bet thats what it is, you know what a scumbucket outfit you drive for and that is why will never say who it is. i will make the offer yet again...i got a hundred dollar bill if you tell all of us who you work for.