Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

I figured is was straight up I just didn't now what towns were the biggest draw. I figured Enid, OK , Hutchinson, KS and then ?

 

The dude hasn't even called me in a week and I owe a payment now. This is how he is. Next time he calls he'll be all frantic for me to bring it back again because "things are getting out of hand" or some crap. He must be really busy. I haven't even seen a tug at my credit and I have a daily monitoring service, so I know he hasn't done anything.

I haven't made practically anything in the last 2 weeks either so I'm not about to chase him down either. Eclipse is still holding 60% of my last settlement from 2 weeks ago, I didn't get any work at all the whole next week, and last week I only got about 4 days of work. I'm really going to get behind here and I really hope there is no unusual freight slowdowns right now because things are hard enough. I get to play catch-up again all month just like my first month. I feel like I haven't accomplished anything since I started now. No funds are built up etc, I'm right at square one again. I don't think I'll ever get my down payments and startup expenses back. Lucky to keep my payments and home bills paid. Right now I've truly purchased myself a job.

I think I'm going to look into leasing on a truck or two and try to build some revenue streams outside of my truck, but again only in cases where it helps out whomever needs it or couldn't run otherwise.

 

Did you get nabbed on anything?

 

I wouldn't want the headaches of owner operators leased to me, I know how much of a pain I am to work with I don't need any help.

PharmPhail are you pulling a hopper or a end dump?

 

I'm dragging a hopper. End dump still holds my interest, but if I end up having to buy my trailer that will settle that.

 

Speaking of Nebraska, around Sept-Nov last year there was more corn and wheat to move between elevators than they could find trucks to haul it. They had so much coming out of the fields that every day we couldn't run the combine we were running loads from elevator to elevator (10-20 miles.) I don't know if it's worth it for you guys, or if you already know about it, but it's a day's pay guaranteed if there's nothing else to do.

Oh yeah, that was around Grant, NE.

 

What's a days pay?