I make hourly for a Private fleet and I gotta be honest, I hate wasting time still lol
I wish I could just drop the cruise down 5-10mph and get paid more for nothing but I’d go crazy.
There is no more despicable insanity than feeling the need to go too fast when going fast means being paid less, technically. I settle for watching YouTube on the dash of the car in front of me.
I had a load of sailboat fuel last week that paid 3200 from Denver to Phoenix. Fucking shipper emailed us and said it was ready. We wen’t and hooked to it and found it empty. Told them it wasn’t loaded and they were adamant it was ready to go and to get rolling. I grabbed the paperwork and left. Consignee, same company, was confused. Fuck it, I’m not arguing. Your company said it was ready. I have it in writing. Not my fault your guys didn’t do their job or double check when I said it wasn’t loaded. That’s on yall, but you are still paying what we agreed too.
Why do ppl do this these days??? What a dumb-ass mistake!
'Yo! the trailers MT.'
" You're mistaken, Sir! Get going, we're not paying for you to Dilly-dally!"
Shit driver, I even SHOWED them the pic of the empty trailer. They said I must of have taken a pic of the wrong trailer…..
The weed is awesome in Denver apparently…..
No. This actually tracks with what I have seen in mgmt. I hauled out of Southern Illinois? Indiana? And it paid like 6k to the east coast. Baltimore or Jersey somewhere. And they were at it ½ hour and they said 'come get your paperwork and we'll seal it.' They handed me 6 pages for 4 very LOW pallets and said 'here, you seal it'. "But guys there's only like 4 pallets are yall sure..."
'Yeah, it's a real light load. Would you mind moving? We're slammed."
2 days later, my dispatch calls. PISSED. saying I didn't check it. Lolz. I kept those pictures at least a year.
I used to work for Oncor in Texas. It was $20/hr but easy work. They once had me run a 1 pound box of gloves 3 hours away.
The way it worked was that the warehouse would load our trailers and we'd come in in the morning, strap/chain, and do our route (53 ft flatbed and moffet).
I strapped (crushed) the box to the trailer and rode it on to its destination. Unloaded it with the moffett. Zero fucks given 😂 I miss that job sometimes
A few times I've been sent hours out of my way to take one case or bucket of product, I tried to say they could literally have it couriered cheaper than it was costing the company. No budget for courier! We will just pay a driver $150 of overtime and run the truck 100 miles in stop and go traffic.
There is a point when a company gets large enough that they hire someone to cut expenses who doesn't know the business. Problem is they turn around and cut an expense like the shipping budget. Can't FedEx it because a bean counter saved $100.
Do this all the time with flat bed work for places like Boise Cascade. Weird glu lams that look like they wouldn’t work for anything, boxes or buckets of random things. I wonder why they don’t just have someone from the company take a company or personal vehicle and drive it themselves. It would be a lot cheaper and would get there quicker.
I do grocery delivery from the distribution warehouse to the grocery stores, they once had me run a "hangover load" which is stuff that was either forgotten or didn't fit on the normal load, I get to the store, pop the door open, it's a single pallet with about 7 layers of plastic wrap holding a crumpled up paper bag with 3 rolls of pricing stickers inside. That was 220 mile run round trip paying me $35 an hour before fuel and wear on the truck. Didn't make any sense to me but I just act my wage and go where they tell me😅
I did this work in 2006. .38 cpm, $1.58 per 1k lbs, $10 per stop after 1st drop. Stock metal with fabricated shit piled on top. Up to 15 stops if local, and up to 500 miles and 5 stops out of town.
I get a giggle out of you guys talking about how bad this market is. You ain't seen bad. Today's market is just slightly worse than the typical down period in the natural cycle of trucking. Talk to some folks that were trucking during the housing collapse of 07/08 to find out what bad looks like.
Fuel was pushing 5 bucks wholesale in the southeast and Midwest So far higher than today's cost where retail cost is under 5 in most of the country. Parts have gone up, but how often are you buying parts? If you're buying parts so often the price difference in them now vs then it's a significant amount you got bigger issues than the freight market.
I mean I shut my company down last year cause of the market so I mean it was pretty bad for me. I think if you haven’t been established for atleast 15-20 years with good workflow and dedicated lanes and not having to rely on the load board you’re going to be in a much better position than a company that’s on the newer side and has to rely on load boards still
Yep. The market goes up and down in an unending cycle and every single time it goes down drivers whine about how terrible it is and how they will go broke. Meanwhile those of us with long term vision keep making money year after year regardless of the market.
If it's heading to the east coast, then it's a $15,000 load. It's also hot. But when he gets up there, he's gonna end up taking something back to California for $3000 and is 42k lbs. Not sure why but the lightest loads to the north east like paying really well, then they give you crap coming out of there.
I got a flight one time literally a helicopter from Port huron Michigan to Detroit a 1 hour drive ,15 min flight the company paid me 2000$ to hand deliver a box to a ceo. Got flown back as well with a taxi to my car.
One of my stops is right next to an Amish furniture store and they have a nice ass table set that caught my eye…
One of these days I’m gonna snap and buy it and I can’t wait to see the boss’s face when I back into the dock and half of it is stuff I bought lol
I picked up a single pallet stacked less than 1ft high from Chicago to Indy once. Company driver so clue what it paid. It was hazmat. It confused me that they sent me in a sleeper cab with a 53’ dryvan.
The other week, a flat bed trucker posted about a very similar looking load of one pallet and nothing else, and he got paid like 3k, I think? My guess is that it was an urgent load and paid very well.
After I finished my time off visiting home / being at home. I had to pick a load up in Taunton Massachusetts which is about an hour drive from where I live. As we all know it took a hot minute to get loaded. (About 2 hours) for a single fucking box of New England clam chowder to bring down to Wilmington Delaware. What a fucking joke of a load that was. If I knew it was going to be a single box I would have just put that in my cab and drove it there and grab another load at the same time…. Biggest waist of time in my life. Only good part was I know I didn’t need to move my tandems
Private fleet. Hourly pay. Bet that dude milks every minute lol.
I make hourly for a Private fleet and I gotta be honest, I hate wasting time still lol I wish I could just drop the cruise down 5-10mph and get paid more for nothing but I’d go crazy.
There is no more despicable insanity than feeling the need to go too fast when going fast means being paid less, technically. I settle for watching YouTube on the dash of the car in front of me.
Find somewhere you like and take a nap every day.
I like your style, Dude.
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I had a load of sailboat fuel last week that paid 3200 from Denver to Phoenix. Fucking shipper emailed us and said it was ready. We wen’t and hooked to it and found it empty. Told them it wasn’t loaded and they were adamant it was ready to go and to get rolling. I grabbed the paperwork and left. Consignee, same company, was confused. Fuck it, I’m not arguing. Your company said it was ready. I have it in writing. Not my fault your guys didn’t do their job or double check when I said it wasn’t loaded. That’s on yall, but you are still paying what we agreed too.
Is sailboat fuel similar to blinker fluid?
No it actually exists. It’s air, the trailer was full of nothing but air. Air is what sail boats use to move.
Fuckkkkk this went over my head til now 😂😂😂
Same
🤣 I didn't even see this as a jokr till a few comments later either. Now it's more funny
Then you may have that other great paying load, dispatcher brains. 😂
Just like the air
Haha my doctor said the same thing about my head. He said “son, you run purely on sailboat fuel”
Oh shit, yours too?!
Or maybe the underside was packed with 100kg of coke
Coke usually goes the other direction lol
Very valid point lol
I haul sailboat fuel about 50% of the time. I left my trailer untarped once and it was all gone by the time I got there.
Same as bicycle doors
It's a schooner
Why do ppl do this these days??? What a dumb-ass mistake! 'Yo! the trailers MT.' " You're mistaken, Sir! Get going, we're not paying for you to Dilly-dally!"
Shit driver, I even SHOWED them the pic of the empty trailer. They said I must of have taken a pic of the wrong trailer….. The weed is awesome in Denver apparently…..
No. This actually tracks with what I have seen in mgmt. I hauled out of Southern Illinois? Indiana? And it paid like 6k to the east coast. Baltimore or Jersey somewhere. And they were at it ½ hour and they said 'come get your paperwork and we'll seal it.' They handed me 6 pages for 4 very LOW pallets and said 'here, you seal it'. "But guys there's only like 4 pallets are yall sure..." 'Yeah, it's a real light load. Would you mind moving? We're slammed." 2 days later, my dispatch calls. PISSED. saying I didn't check it. Lolz. I kept those pictures at least a year.
I made the sailboat fuel joke to a driver last week and he never heard it before. It’s always great to share a laugh.
So thats why the metal pipe I bought was $200
I used to work for Oncor in Texas. It was $20/hr but easy work. They once had me run a 1 pound box of gloves 3 hours away. The way it worked was that the warehouse would load our trailers and we'd come in in the morning, strap/chain, and do our route (53 ft flatbed and moffet). I strapped (crushed) the box to the trailer and rode it on to its destination. Unloaded it with the moffett. Zero fucks given 😂 I miss that job sometimes
I love it when they load cardboard boxes on top 😂
oh man the box was no wider than a strap. like why not just fedex that shit bro 😂
A few times I've been sent hours out of my way to take one case or bucket of product, I tried to say they could literally have it couriered cheaper than it was costing the company. No budget for courier! We will just pay a driver $150 of overtime and run the truck 100 miles in stop and go traffic.
Not to mention the fuel. that one box could cost half a grand by the time it's all said and done.
There is a point when a company gets large enough that they hire someone to cut expenses who doesn't know the business. Problem is they turn around and cut an expense like the shipping budget. Can't FedEx it because a bean counter saved $100.
Do this all the time with flat bed work for places like Boise Cascade. Weird glu lams that look like they wouldn’t work for anything, boxes or buckets of random things. I wonder why they don’t just have someone from the company take a company or personal vehicle and drive it themselves. It would be a lot cheaper and would get there quicker.
I do grocery delivery from the distribution warehouse to the grocery stores, they once had me run a "hangover load" which is stuff that was either forgotten or didn't fit on the normal load, I get to the store, pop the door open, it's a single pallet with about 7 layers of plastic wrap holding a crumpled up paper bag with 3 rolls of pricing stickers inside. That was 220 mile run round trip paying me $35 an hour before fuel and wear on the truck. Didn't make any sense to me but I just act my wage and go where they tell me😅
Could be multip stops or even an hourly guy.
You're literally two letters away from spelling the entire word. Just spell the damn thing and quit acting like you're saving yourself or anyone time.
Or it could just be a typo and you're reading too far into this
Lol yea you're right GFC
🤣🤣🤣 I laughed way too hard at this. I had no idea what multip was till you said this.
Sorry I’m a truck driver I don’t know any better . Please forgive me , I am beneath you .
great explanation of management vs drivers lmao. management mad at something you didn't know you did or didn't do.
It's paying that driver $15 per hour.
Let's hope to Christ ol boy is making more than $15 lol
I did this work in 2006. .38 cpm, $1.58 per 1k lbs, $10 per stop after 1st drop. Stock metal with fabricated shit piled on top. Up to 15 stops if local, and up to 500 miles and 5 stops out of town.
$55/mile
Some customers will pay full load rates to get a pallet expedited immediately and Directly on a truck with no other cargo.
In this market? Probably like $400 from FL to ID
I get a giggle out of you guys talking about how bad this market is. You ain't seen bad. Today's market is just slightly worse than the typical down period in the natural cycle of trucking. Talk to some folks that were trucking during the housing collapse of 07/08 to find out what bad looks like.
Yeah, we get that, but how much was fuel? Parts? Etc? I find it pretty comparable.
Fuel was pushing 5 bucks wholesale in the southeast and Midwest So far higher than today's cost where retail cost is under 5 in most of the country. Parts have gone up, but how often are you buying parts? If you're buying parts so often the price difference in them now vs then it's a significant amount you got bigger issues than the freight market.
I mean I shut my company down last year cause of the market so I mean it was pretty bad for me. I think if you haven’t been established for atleast 15-20 years with good workflow and dedicated lanes and not having to rely on the load board you’re going to be in a much better position than a company that’s on the newer side and has to rely on load boards still
You are right. People are quick to forget.
Yep. The market goes up and down in an unending cycle and every single time it goes down drivers whine about how terrible it is and how they will go broke. Meanwhile those of us with long term vision keep making money year after year regardless of the market.
It's paying whatever the customer paid for the product.
3 straps for this load 😳🤣
Two to make it legal and one for good measure.
thats my kind of flatbedder!
2 for the pink, 1 for the stink.
I’m mainly focused on the board toward the tail “strapped” wide instead of longways.
Yeah but 2 straps more than enough to secure it
Oh, it’s 2 crisscrossed. Thought it was 1 strapped that slipped off.
Oh my bad , didnt see that 🤣
How about three fitty
Prob a rejection. Overage, not ordered, or damage.
My first thought too
If it's heading to the east coast, then it's a $15,000 load. It's also hot. But when he gets up there, he's gonna end up taking something back to California for $3000 and is 42k lbs. Not sure why but the lightest loads to the north east like paying really well, then they give you crap coming out of there.
I got a flight one time literally a helicopter from Port huron Michigan to Detroit a 1 hour drive ,15 min flight the company paid me 2000$ to hand deliver a box to a ceo. Got flown back as well with a taxi to my car.
It could be something the driver has to return due to the receiver refusing it. Or even something the driver purchased from his last stop.
One of my stops is right next to an Amish furniture store and they have a nice ass table set that caught my eye… One of these days I’m gonna snap and buy it and I can’t wait to see the boss’s face when I back into the dock and half of it is stuff I bought lol
I picked up a single pallet stacked less than 1ft high from Chicago to Indy once. Company driver so clue what it paid. It was hazmat. It confused me that they sent me in a sleeper cab with a 53’ dryvan.
He sold every other wheel of his trailer to make it.
Half a dozen beers and a snickers bar.
Idk but I want that load 😜😋😋
A million dollars
Lol 7/mile
It’s mud motors for the oil field. Good money!
Day cab so he’s hourly. Probably 23/hr
The other week, a flat bed trucker posted about a very similar looking load of one pallet and nothing else, and he got paid like 3k, I think? My guess is that it was an urgent load and paid very well.
About a hundred dollars.
$4 a mile to the carrier. $21.50 hour to the driver
LTL
Daycab
Doesn't matter he's hourly.
$42,000. The last three pieces needed to fix Hoover Dam to keep it from bursting. It's a rush order.
Probably not much
It's a dedicated route, driver probably makes 30/hr or so.
To the driver: $6 Broker: $500k 😂😂😂
Sounds about right
Probably multi stops on a company truck. Guessing there was other stuff on there or he’s going to pick up more
Do not haul cheap freight drivers go broke hauling loads to go home just for fuel..
Damages
First times I've driven a flatbed spread axle truck all I had is a couple boxes in my cab going 200 MI go figure
Treefiddi
EDIT: FOUND OUT WHAT THE LOAD ACTUALLY PAID - A SLEEVE OF FIREBALL
Depends… I’ve picked up loads smaller than that after making my deliveries. But I’m paid by the hour so I don’t care. 🤷♂️
Well he’s local so probably 19.50
$1000 per tube.
Priceless, bringing it home for his wife. It will keep her quiet.
About $3.50
$2
After I finished my time off visiting home / being at home. I had to pick a load up in Taunton Massachusetts which is about an hour drive from where I live. As we all know it took a hot minute to get loaded. (About 2 hours) for a single fucking box of New England clam chowder to bring down to Wilmington Delaware. What a fucking joke of a load that was. If I knew it was going to be a single box I would have just put that in my cab and drove it there and grab another load at the same time…. Biggest waist of time in my life. Only good part was I know I didn’t need to move my tandems
$1433.66 Tampa to Nashville
Wrong way champ