Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

Dallas is getting soggy , real soggy.
It's been a slow month for me. Backhaul seems to be short of the usually decent options to be able to timely move ya. Having said that. I noticed at 11 AM last Monday Lancaster rd Pilot had just 1 truck spot open that allowed me a place to park and grab a shower. I've also noticed a couple other times on Saturdays last 5 weeks the truck stops are maxed out b4 1 or 2 pm. That's a sign of a real crap economy.

Just want to say to Snack bar , I see you found hopefully what will be a better fit for ya.. , good luck .

As for the month I had , it'll fall about 2500 miles short of what I have become accustom to. Like the norm of 11000 for 25 days. Yes meaning 27 days out this month I'll be about 8500miles total.
I'll admit I get 2 or 3 months a year like this. Usually between Dec . And Mar. So when it happens in Oct. It concerns me.
My wife and I are savers , so there's no red flags going up.
The economy always concerns me though. As Jevic driver , when they went chapter 13 in 2008 , I hope it's the only time in my life I see that. It's a big reason we do what we do to build a financial safety net.

 

I do believe it's 10 bucks cheaper than our disc. At Laquinta

 

I want to add also , that yes it's frustrating when waiting a day for a backhaul. Something we don't often shine a light on here is who our brokers are. I'm real grateful Poly is picky about the brokers they use , for more than 1 reason.
I've been told a few times that they absolutely will not haul dirt cheap frt.
That to me is quite honorable and I hope they don't start. For if they do it's likely we'll start getting CH Robinson and American frt brokers the top 2 mut brokers in the frt business imo.
I've sat weekends 4 or 5 times because these a holes like to book 2 or 3 different carriers to go pick up the same load. 1 gets lucky rolling on a Fri at 1500 , the other 2 sobs have to wait til Monday. It's what helps me be more patient with them.
By not pulling those no dollar loads , maybe they're in business to stay in business.
Hopefully that will allow them to be understanding in certain situations resulting in 8 hrs pay at their discretion. Not to be abused of course.

 

it's 10/27 , 2nd day of my 7 at home , and loving it. If any of ya have del'd to Orgill in Inwood WV maybe you could tell me if they have a dock ? 46 plts so I sure hope so. Everyone be safe

 

I got a call and texts from coyote today asking for a location update and delivery time. Ask them who was the carrier was and told me poly was. I left poly over 3 months ago. Poly better not be giving my personal information to hold or use it for loads



Update
Just received another call from coyote about a different load

 

My previous company used Coyote as well. I picked up a load in Corona Ca going to Garland. Loaded Wednesday at 1400 and had to be in Garland by 1400 Friday, perfectly doable except the shipper took 5 hours to load. Coyote acted like it was my problem and told me if I couldn't be there on time they would have to reschedule for Monday. I told that zit faced teenager that was fine as I live in Dallas and I'll deliver it on Monday. They rescheduled for Friday at 1900.

I do not miss those days at all, dealing with brokers. Many of them are conniving, sleazy, backstabers.

 

I haven't done a coyote load in 6 months.

 

I'd play along and just tell them that you took the load home with you and will be out of the country for a few weeks and if they have a problem with it, they should call Poly and get someone else to haul the load.

 

Its very slow at Poly , i was thinking it was just me , but after reading the other post i guess not

 

I'm having a good October suprisingly. The last two weeks I did 3k+ miles each and hoping for the same this week. I'll be at 1600 with 5 drops done tomorrow , hope I can get a backhaul out of Maryland Friday so I can get the miles turned in. Then Goin to the house.