Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by Scooter Jones, Mar 7, 2020.

  1. SteveScott

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    It's happening all over. I expect many of the public officials doing this for a photo op are getting sterile water instead of the vaccine.

    This video on Youtube shows health workers in El Paso TX receiving the vaccine for a photo op.



    And this video on a new web site that is a Youtube alternative shows the same press event with a health worker faking it. He gets jabbed in the arm and the plunger is already pushed in. Sorry for the Greek writing in the link. The site must be based in Greece. Strange we have to visit web sites in other parts of the world to get the truth.

    ΔΕΙΤΕ ΠΩΣ ΔΗΘΕΝ ΕΜΒΟΛΙΑΖΟΝΤΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΜΑΣ ΠΕΙΣΟΥΝ!

    We're being duped by everybody. I don't mean to sound paranoid, but there is a lot of BS going on with this pandemic and lock down.
     
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  3. Brettj3876

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    It was planned well in advance. Event 201. Also look up the "Great reset" that this guy named Claus of the world economic forum. It's down right scary.

    The media censorship going on now is not good. Just 1 tentacle of the 8 legged octopus
     
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  4. Scooter Jones

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  5. Scooter Jones

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    I guess Apex Capital Corp. could go after the companies they factored money to if it was a "recourse" contract agreement?
     
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  6. Scooter Jones

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    One of my sons, who is single ,rents a room in a large home. There's several other tenants there. Anyhow, he was just informed last night that one of the recent applicants for a room last Sunday, with whom he had close contact via a handshake, reported to the landlord he had tested "positive" for Covid-19 last week. Even though he was not approved as a tenant.

    So, as such, my son was required to tell his employer this morning about this. Now my son can't work until he is cleared with a negative test result, or has no symptoms for at least 10 days from the initial exposure.

    He was putting in all kinds of OT hours too, banking for Christmas.
     
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  7. Oscar the KW

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    I wouldn’t have said ####.
     
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  8. TallJoe

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    Weekly retrospect... Rates cooled down somewhat.
    Still...

    If I can obtain $4 000 after fuel and tolls (AFT) per week work load, it certainly will ascertain my staying in a relatively good shape. Whatever overachievement there is, it ought to be treated as an advance towards poor times when one should still remain active as long as the truck does not generate a loss by its wheels rolling (my own take on the subject)

    Ashton, IL - Greencastle, PA: $3075 - $327 (Fuel and Tolls) = $2748
    Inwood, WV - West Branch, IA: $1700 - $570 = $1111
    Newton, IA - Reed City, MI - DH Home: $1750 - $345 = $1405
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    that is $5264 AFT (LOL)

    Before Christmas I booked two additional/supplemental loads: Monday - Wednesday - every night at home ;) that will render $ 1795 AFT (lol)
    For a casual onlooker it might seem not too shabby but mind you, prior to the above work I had spent close to 6 grand on repairs....
    So, dear casual onlooker...it is not something that you get to keep in your wallet as if you were a company driver....
     
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  9. TallJoe

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    Taking appropriate route in order to avoid tolls, does make a difference: sometimes even +/- $300.

    Ashton, IL - Greencastle, PA: $3075 - $327 (Fuel and Tolls) = $2748 (minimal tolls)

    Inwood, WV - West Branch, IA: $1700 - $570 = $1111 (maximal tolls - forced to accept it due to bad weather) - at least $200 could have being avoided (e.g. summer time) by a different routing.
     
  10. Scooter Jones

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    He thought about it, but figured he could be potentially be jeopardizing other people and his own job for not saying anything. He'll do a rapid test in the morning and go back to work after that, hopefully LOL
     
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  11. TallJoe

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    He did the right thing, imo. While we may think whatever we choose about it, the fact is that we only know what we hear from TV or Social Media about the severity and deaths, not too mention all the conspiratorial theories behind it (some quite interesting and hard to be dismissed too easily), there should be some consideration to others out of simple courtesy. Simply, because some people firmly believe in the level of seriousness, we need to respect that to some degree too.
    However, statistically, it is a high probability that any of us by this time now, had a chance to be in a close proximity, if not tangent with an actual virus carrier. Not much you can do about it.
     
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