Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

So far, I've been sitting home the whole week and a half. No Covid-19 symptoms. The nice thing about not factoring is that it creates a nice delusion that you don't work and money is still coming in. On my desk, I have $ 9 K worth of checks - I just like the view of them so I have not deposited them yet - that arrived in the last 8 days (2 fat 30 days old from XPOs the rest free Quick Pays from JB Hunt - kudos to them for honoring all my claimed detentions )... $7K more should arrive in the next week. Heck, I would like this to continue forever. But by the end of the next week, I'll have no more checks to expect. I don't not know how that stimulus package could apply for a guy like me. My wife has sewn a collection of facial masks and was able to buy some silicon gloves, so now, I guess, I don't have too many excuses not to go.

 

That's right! These Ubers and Convoys are just algorithms, if anything else. Soulless monsters.
Last Summer I did cancel a load while being at the shipper due to disagreement about their wanting me to sign a paper in which they - shipper - indemnify themselves for any damage during transit. However there was no guarantee that the product was not intact from the very get go. The way it was stored and handled raised some of my concerns. For instance, some of bottom layer boxes appeared squashed already. I called Convoy and spoke with someone from ... well I guess it was Honduras. They just said ok...you are off this load. No worries. I was expecting some mitigation or assurance that they can assist me in case the is a problem at the receiver. They just took me off that load and counted that as a fall off against me.

 

Found a load posted for 1150 on 350mi. Going up into nowhere Vermont. Usual rate on that lanes usually around ~900.

 

That's encouraging! I was nothing but frustrated with 360 for the whole week. I was too much into that $5 per mile thing! Time to get realistic, I guess.

 

The thing is i wonder how many trucks are gonna be piled up at the gate waiting. Saw that pic in pa somewhere at a nestle water plant

 

Didn't even call on it. We're gonna sit and see how things play out over the next week. Trucks need some loving anyways.

 

Yes! Now your cookin! High five dude. $4.50/mi is acceptable.