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bangngears · **^ Top** #81 11.12.2008

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Originally Posted by im6under

if you ever questioned if I was a whiner...

go ask darryl about that waterloo yahoo that came down and bellyached for three days til they sent him home... lol

run to pitts field, run to hammond and broke down at sapp bros overnite...

my compressor governor gave out and two tows later,one for me off the road and then another to run me out a truck from blue grass....

jee'z that was an expensive day!!! very frustrating... 300 for an hours effort from the first rig... I almost crapped when I saw the bill....

nothing anyone could do... just dang... 300?????

I'd never make a good o/o i'd go postal..........

I have been in heavy duty towing for 20 years and 300 is not a bad price, a big truck is not like hooking up a car. If you do it right there is alot of work in it. Man did i hate getting up in the middle of the night to go out and remove drivelines and set up air lines, brutal work i will never miss it!

im6under · **^ Top** #82 11.13.2008

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Originally Posted by bangngears

I have been in heavy duty towing for 20 years and 300 is not a bad price, a big truck is not like hooking up a car. If you do it right there is alot of work in it. Man did i hate getting up in the middle of the night to go out and remove drivelines and set up air lines, brutal work i will never miss it!

this guy drove out and hooked an air hose on to charge my tanks with air and I drove the truck to the sapp parking lot two miles away. two hours labor at 150 per... cuz the time starts when they dispatch the truck and ends when he's back at the ponderosa. he figured it took an hour from when he got the call to when I was in the lot and at that point he was half done. had to drive the wrecker back up the road 7 miles and put it to bed...

nice guy I just think he took advantage of us.

I grew up around towing and I know all about pulling bumpers and working your butt off in the wee hours.. I also know about being reasonable with a customer and charging for "what" you do. In my opinion $150 would have been plenty reasonable for running out at 8p.m. and charging an air tank.

Our mistake, we should have called a tire shop instead of a wrecker...

bangngears · **^ Top** #83 11.14.2008

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Originally Posted by im6under

this guy drove out and hooked an air hose on to charge my tanks with air and I drove the truck to the sapp parking lot two miles away. two hours labor at 150 per... cuz the time starts when they dispatch the truck and ends when he's back at the ponderosa. he figured it took an hour from when he got the call to when I was in the lot and at that point he was half done. had to drive the wrecker back up the road 7 miles and put it to bed...

nice guy I just think he took advantage of us.

I grew up around towing and I know all about pulling bumpers and working your butt off in the wee hours.. I also know about being reasonable with a customer and charging for "what" you do. In my opinion $150 would have been plenty reasonable for running out at 8p.m. and charging an air tank.

Our mistake, we should have called a tire shop instead of a wrecker...

well you didnt say all that LOL i have never benn a crook, i would have brought my service truck out and left the big boy sleeping. if you call me out on that 100 and thats it....hmmm maybe i was too nice lol have a good night.

MO family man · **^ Top** #84 11.14.2008

Three days out for a waterloo guy? Do y'all even know how to get from your seats to your sleepers?. I started to feel like I was an over the road driver again myself this past week.
Monday load out going to western OK deliver Tues am. 650 out 650 back(That part still tickles me to death). Weds two loads up to cedar rapids and one to eddyville. Thurs reload a cedar rapids trailer then take a load to eddyville. Grab a clean barrel and scoot on out to Scotts bluff NE to load Friday am. Run that back and drop it in Blue Grass then go to the house. 1600 miles and change on that little ride. Fri afternoon Darrel calls and asks if I want to take one down to NC for Monday am...had to pass on that one.

im6under · **^ Top** #85 11.15.2008

did wisc last night, just got back from clinton, hitting eddyville and cedar rapids tomorrow...

had me scheduled for a hastings neb come moday morning... had to decline...

bob says... but you had all last weekend off...???

yeah... I did... but you can still only run 70 hours in 8 days... and when you're pounding out the miles like we've been that gets used up kinda quickly...

bob: after midnight sunday you get a new day to run....

yes, but I'm dropping a zero and will still have 70 in... ????????

we need more guys...

yeah and some brand new 515 h.p. freightliners... or pete's as long as I'm dreaming...lol

im6under · **^ Top** #86 11.15.2008

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Originally Posted by MO family man

Three days out for a waterloo guy? Do y'all even know how to get from your seats to your sleepers?.

I had to call and have dispatch explain it to me, because I couldn't find it....

Turns out its the couch behind the drivers seat, I couldn't believe they
expected me to actually sleep back there... I been using that area for additional storage all year. sleeper??? like heck...!!!! there wasn't even a t.v or fridge or nothing !!!!!! just a pillow and a blankie...

I'm telling you... I was roughing it big time...

bangngears · **^ Top** #87 11.15.2008

So tell me, do you guys know anything about foodliner? are the miles there and stuff like that.

MO family man · **^ Top** #88 11.15.2008

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Originally Posted by im6under

I had to call and have dispatch explain it to me, because I couldn't find it....

Turns out its the couch behind the drivers seat, I couldn't believe they
expected me to actually sleep back there... I been using that area for additional storage all year. sleeper??? like heck...!!!! there wasn't even a t.v or fridge or nothing !!!!!! just a pillow and a blankie...

I'm telling you... I was roughing it big time...

Honestly I can't see what you were beefing about. We have a sweet gig down there in Ottumwa. You weren't by chance the blond haired guy asking were the bills for a dropped trailer would be were you?

MO family man · **^ Top** #89 11.15.2008

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Originally Posted by bangngears

So tell me, do you guys know anything about foodliner? are the miles there and stuff like that.

Things seem to vary wildly by terminal. They have a terminal in Toledo and defiance OH. Both are close to you I think but I have no idea what each terminal hauls.

bangngears · **^ Top** #90 11.16.2008

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Originally Posted by MO family man

Things seem to vary wildly by terminal. They have a terminal in Toledo and defiance OH. Both are close to you I think but I have no idea what each terminal hauls.

I knew there was one in toledo but didn't know about defiance. I will have to call someone this week and talk to them. Do you guys know any honest recruiters there, if there is such an animal LOL

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