What if it Snows?

I'm unsure about what you are unsure about?

Let me throw some numbers at you so we have a starting point.

Load pays $1200 all in

If we call $200 of that fuel surcharge that leaves $1000 as "Line Haul"

If no Accessory pay like driver unload or layover then you should see:

Fuel Surcharge $200
tractor pay 65% = $650

To the truck pay = $850

If you are running your own trailer.
Trailer pay 7% = $70
If trailer is a refer IIRC %10 = $100

Will be a separate line item on the second page of the settlement.

 

Not sure if it is faded memories or things really have changed. Not a big fast food eater. Sure there have been times that was the quickly available thing, and I needed to put something in the stomach.
For some reason, the last week or so, I have been wanting a chili-cheese dog. Up to today, I have resisted the craving. Well, I should have continued to do that. Not that it was horrible, it just was not good. The last time I had one, I tried Sonic. It was OK, just not great. Think that has cured me for another year or so.

 

Usually a small fire of some kind rolls through nearby. They are still just trying to keep the road stuck to the side of the mountain. Been puting in a bunch of steel piles this year. And smoothing out the 2 foot drop offs wher the road has "Settled" recently.

I remember they had base camp set up at the ski resort last year.

Currently east bound closure is just outside Naches. I overnighted there a week or 2 ago when the Evans Canyon fire started and watched the fire along the crest.

 

It has been said, the first two people to die in a hurricane is the weather channel guy and the guy who is going to surf the big waves.

 

The question is how many loads do you lose because it’s already preloaded on a landstar trailer or has to be dropped loaded at the receiver......

 

Can the next hurricane take this guy? Please?

 

I too find myself craving chili cheese dogs now and again when I do usually make my own.

 

For me it was very few.

The lanes I ran (West of I25) had very few drop and hook loads that paid well. I may have done 3 or 4 D&H a month for the first 6 months. I purchased my personal trailer 6 months into the contract and never looked back.

I did not get load alerts for preloaded or Drop trailer freight. On occasion I would get a phone call of "Please help me out and run this preloaded" because the agent did not realize I had my trailer. Usually the rate was so low that I was not even interested in it if they would cross dock it. Or it would be going to a bad freight area for me and the rate would not cover the deadhead out.

I believe Dave has a different perspective.........

 

I tend to make most food at home as well. When I do have a dog, usually it’s Chicago style.

 

A second piece that played into my decision to get my trailer was the Low Quality of the trailers in the fleet at that time.

Many times I would hook to the least offensive empty I could find. At that time most seemed to have bad tires, flaky ABS systems, and expired 120 day inspections.

One time I was surprised that I hooked to a 3 month old trailer. Was great till I realized it was spring ride and my next 3 loads where "air ride required". Took me over a month to off that P.O.S.

Got tired of playing trailer roulette in the Russian style....