lack of empty trailers

I guess I worded that wrong. I understood he took a loaded trailer to a receiver and went from there. Maybe I misread it. In the case I just mentioned, I believe there is a minimum $50 pay for delivering the load...to a company driver.

I'm not above bugging the local planners for a t-called local live unload so I can have the trailer.

 

will have to respectfully disagree. even though its a t-call, whoever is picking up the load at the terminal, the load is still booked on said driver from point a to b. which are figured into the load as stops 1 and 90. i had a load like that out of memphis, delivered 12 miles away, but still only got paid a mile. never did see any 'stop pay'.

that being said.....i always pay attention to addresses at shippers or finals. If i go to the address listed on the p/u or drop, then they tell me, "oh you gotta go down the street to our other warehouse....".....i'll ask if that is a different address, and if they could give it to me. Then i'll send a msg to my DM asking to submit stop pay. yeah...its only 1/4 mi down the road...but a different address is still another stop.

 

I didn't describe it very clearly my bad. I took the empty trailer to the drop yard, dropped it picked up the loaded trailer and took it to the consignee where it was live unloaded-- that's part of the reason this little job took 5.5 hours all together. Then I took that empty now to a different shipper and picked up another loaded trailer and took it to a different drop yard and bobtailed out and sat for 25.5 hours until I got another preplan so I waited it out another 9 hours and got a full 34 in. I figured might as well cuz what if I get to the next place and they decide to sit me for 34 that's a potential 60 hours I'm basically out of service= makey no money! lol

 

You're an L/O now ... on those kind of loads the planners will kick you an extra $40 to $50 to do it.

 

how many of us go home with an MT trailer? i do it all the time. i sure as heck aint going to drop it 90 min away......

 

i'd want that in writing or over the qualcomm first. if i do it, it had better have a nice backup behind it....or its not worth my time.

 

A delay caused by no empty? Mac22 it will get you out of a service failure.

I hauled a brand new 111 series trailer from Lafayette IN from Wabash trailers. I took it empty to Cabela's in Praire du Chein WI 300+miles.

I saw a UPS, and a Landstar tractor pulling brand new Swift trailers. There a over a 100 new ones there at the factory.

 

you believe everything drivers tell ya? if that is the case, i own the george washington bridge, i'll sell it to ya.....

 

So what do you do if it's a preloaded trailer? Make them reload it in another trailer? Get over yourself.

I've pulled a 110 trailer that tracked so crooked I was practically driving in two lanes and a couple Ms Carrier trailers that seemed to track pretty true. I've picked up a brand new trailer from the factory in Lafayette, IN and in all honesty, except for the number staring at me in the mirror, I couldn't tell if it was a new trailer or an old trailer.

If a trailer has good brakes, decent tires, working lights, and the doors aren't falling off, it doesn't matter what the number is.