Chicago area rates

On the rates posted in the op? In Chicago traffic?! You would have to make two turns a day minimum for that to equate. That's not being done every day everyday in that area. not legal anyway. As for flatbed, that's exactly what I do. Otr even. And it's the easiest, best paying gig I've ever had. I once heard someone say(I think it was here on ttr in fact) that anyone that thinks flatbed is hard work, has never done hard work. And in my opinion, they are absolutely correct.

 

Man I hate that #### rail you speak of... "ELWOOD".. i cringe whenever i know i have to go back and terminate my box there and lift something back on there... i consider 2 hours of waiting there a blessing...

 

I did those cans for awhile in Houston and DAILY wanted to shoot myself! It was tearing my equipment up , it's a free for all in the ports and rail yards where VERY insecure people check you in with HUGE attitudes and everything was ALWAYS over weight , chassis equipt was a joke and ops acted like no other drivers had o.w issues when they're all heavy as ######!!! Aaaaaand then the local traffic!
FAH GET A BOUT IT!!

 

we dont pull much 53's and when we do, it's usually EMHU or UMXU boxs.

primarily 20, 40, 45.

 

Ahh. Ok. That changes things. Still to much work for to little money imo. But I'm a spoiled ### mercer guy. Last container I pulled picked up at an air force base and went to nasa. Paid so good I bounced 700 miles to get it, then bounced back to get my trailer. I saw them open it at nasa, it was filed with shovels and wheel barrels. Over five bucks a mile for freaking shovels that you could buy at the local home depot a third of the trucking cost. No wonder my taxes are so high.

 

I hear ya about the Lil ones growing up to fast. It's another reason I love what I do so much. I get to spend half the year at home. When I said I was otr, I didn't mean it in the traditional sense. More like when I do work, I go where the money is in order to be able to spend more quality time at home. It's a tough balancing act, we gotta work to provide for them, and yet we gotta figure out how to be there with them as much as possible.

Something to consider for ya, you should be able to run regional in that area. Could probably be home every other day. Like make a roundtrip to cinci, two days at home and repeat. I've often though about relocating the family to Louisville and doing that. Leaving before my baby wakes up, and getting home after bedtime kinda kills the point of home every night.

Just food for thought. Here's to good fortune for you and yours.

 

RERM,

Give me a few local locations and I'll check out my settlement to see if I went to any of those destinations. Did fairly a bit of local the past couple of weeks.. dont know why, i love regional but dispatcher(only one dispatcher anyways) decided to put me on local for a couple of weeks. hated that ####! but nonetheless, never complained to him or rejected, just took it. not a bad gig but i just dont like it. I'm more of a pickup from the rail or our yard and off ya go!!!