The day to day ramblings of the LTL business.

Just out of curiosity, was this a freight collect, COD?

 

Scored the new trailer today:

 

You got LED lights on the inside of that thing? Our new ones have them, they're awesome.

 

How are those ramps in the rain and snow and ice? Slippery at all?

The ramp being slippery is my number one worry about ever doing food service. I could handle the work but that ramp scares me about being slippery!

 

Don't be the one who puts the first "wrinkle" on it!

 

Freight volumes are super soft industry wide. It's difficult to tack on charges that other carriers would not charge. It's kinda BS since it is usually the driver that ultimately gets screwed the most.

Otr has the same issue. Some won't tack on detention charges cause other carriers will let their drivers sit unpaid for 12+ hours. It's just the cost of doing business... both shippers and receivers know all of this and will milk it at the drivers expense.

Only defence LTL has is the driver can mostly work around the freight and just say:. Thanks for letting me wait, hope you don't need your freight today cause I won't be back till tomorrow. Then slam down the door and lock down your trailer.

 

Yes and the LED lights are very nice. This is the slider trailer which was the design they had the employees vote on. Much much better then the previous designs that Karat design trailer we have I absolutely hate that design and it's been put out to pasture awful design.