Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

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  1. Scooter Jones

    Scooter Jones Road Train Member

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    You had me paranoid for a second there. I thought I got banned because I admitted (on another thread) to cancelling a booked load 24 hours before load time in lieu of a better paying load ;-)
     
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    I don't know what is a good paying load and what is not any more. Especially, having heard that some of you were getting that $5 dol per mile rates. ;) Is it all right to go from Chicago to Wichita, KS for $2000? Probably not...
     
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  3. Scooter Jones

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    Well, this morning I learned from a good friend of mine that one of his friends from VA died from the Coronavirus yesterday. Same guy's wife is in ICU with double pneumonia waiting for lab results.

    Bummer.
     
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    ####. Sorry for your friend. That's rough.
     
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    Wow. I don't know you or your friend of course but I've got to say it's the first person I know of that even knows someone who has died or gotten sick from this. I'm not saying it isn't real or any of that. I'm saying that lately I've been thinking that if it's really this bad people I know or know of will start dropping like flies. So far....none.

    I don't know of any acquaintances, family or notable people at all that have died of this. Am I alone?

    I'm sure it's real but it seems more surreal.
     
    86scotty, Mar 25, 2020
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    I am surprised you don't get blacklisted by brokers because of that
     
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  7. Scooter Jones

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    I know it's a real shocker when a one-man operation cancels 1 to 2 loads a year!
     
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    You made it look like it's a regular practice for you, not just 1-2 times per year
     
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    No, I didn't. Sorry if you got that impression
     
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    Help! Help! Help!
    Keep losing those bids!
    Nobody gives me anything over 3 dol per mile!
    Help! Help! Help!
    Can't get out!
    I guess I'll sit until Friday.
    Convoy and JB Hunt ---- you greedy capitalists! XPO too!
     
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