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How do the stay in business?!?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by BigBadBill, Apr 9, 2014.

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  1. Apr 9, 2014 #1
    BigBadBill

    BigBadBill Bullishly Optimistic

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    First, thank your fellow O/O's and carriers for the rates. Based on the service that many of them provide they don't even deserve the bottom feeder rates that are being offered.

    It seems to be common practice to accept a load with set times and completely disregard those times. Again, yesterday, we had a driver tell us he was good for the load and gave us a current location that we knew would work. Around 16:30 we are told he is 20-mins out. Then an hour later he some how is was beamed 200 miles in the wrong direct.

    And tells us he will be 4-hours late for pick-up and then have to take his 10-hour break.

    In looking for carriers to run a new lane out of OK I found 22 carriers that meet my criteria. 13 of them had alerts in Carrier Watch for basically the same thing including no call no show. 7 of them have so many I can't see why anyone would load them.

    This isn't just a solo O/O issue. This is a carrier issue. Night dispatch actually said "Oh well" to me last night.

    The other night, a driver that was 20-hours late had the nerve to tell me to stop bothering him. He is a professional and he will pick-up the load and get it delivered on-time, every time.

    He and I have different definitions of on-time and professional.
     
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  3. Apr 9, 2014 #2
    Bigdubber

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    I find myself in a state of being ”speachless"... It so angers and frustrates me to hear things like this... "How do they..." Indeed!
     
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  4. Apr 9, 2014 #3
    Lone Ranger 13

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    I guess some people just don't care.
     
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  5. Apr 9, 2014 #4
    FLATBED

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    I love the ones who call up and remind you of a certain load ( TOTAL SCREWUP on their part )they had hauled looking for more work and then get upset when told SORRY NEVER AGAIN :)
     
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  7. Apr 9, 2014 #5
    spyder7723

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    Bill, you are absolutely right. While all of us have either screwed up, or had a breakdown issue to make us late on a load, the flat out lying drives me nuts. Why so many guys refuse to have open clear communication lines is beyond me.
     
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  8. Apr 9, 2014 #6
    cabwrecker

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    Night dispatch is as useless as tits on a bull. Oh wait, come to think of it, you could do at-least one or two things with some tits...on a bull...Night dispatch, on the other-hand, is about as useful as a stroke.


    20 hours late? It only gets bad when you're talking 48-100 hours late :p



    On an off topic, how do you like DAT?
     
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  9. Apr 9, 2014 #7
    281ric

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    theres a broker that gives me work, she complained I bill her to much other wise she would give me every load she had. She will not use me for every load, I loose a lot of them. She also confessed that when she shops for rates , she often has major problems and has lost a good account due to poor service from the carriers she hired.

    I also wonder how they stay in business , don't know how lying to a broker is going to get you brownie points or a hand up.
     
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    lovesthedrive

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    I had a load that I was to trade off on another driver. I figured where my clock would run out and told the other driver to wait there. I arrived at the rest area with in the appropriate time to find that the driver whom was supposed to be on his 10 had decided to drive to Boston because he felt I would stop elsewhere. Instead of waiting at the Stockbridge Plaza, he made the load late by five hours for his vacation ride down I-90. This also because he was a professional?
     
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  11. Apr 9, 2014 #9
    BigKid2

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    Can anyone see Carrier Watch or just brokers? I had an issue with a breakdown a few months ago which bothers me but nothing I could do about it. Brokers usually love me because I am always on time unless the truck breaks or the road is closed.
     
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    pearcetrucking

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    For the o/o or small carrier that is professional and service oriented, this thread should be music to their ears...
     
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