Recovery

Lol I remember thinking I was a big time trucker after school in 1990. Times are changing though. I started at .19 cents a mile

 

It would look like a Roach Motel.

 

I'd go ltl . Even if it required not driving and picking up cigarette butts in the parking lot

 

$160 - no freaking way. I sure it is like 14 hour days too. So like $11 an hour to clean up some disgruntled truck drivers mess of a truck. I bet they even figure out the flat rate to recover the truck and don't even pay a cent more. Like it takes 3 days just to get the truck on the road but since it is only pay 1 day since it is 500miles away.

Cheapskate company dumps on a driver then pays chicken feed to recover a tuck.

 

CRE just getting more cheap labor. I wonder just how many trash and rodent infested trucks they have out there. Instead of using a towing company just hire a driver.

 

Flying is the way to go. As I said before, I flew to get them and stayed in a hotel every night until I got back. And, I got paid hourly pay from the time I left my house until I checked into the hotel and then hourly pay again once I left the hotel and until I got to the truck. Then, I got paid by the mile.

And yes, there were some that I had to drive with the windows down just to stomach the smell. That was not the norm, but it did happen on a occasion. Frankly, most were left unmolested. My favorites were guys that had medical issues. Obviously, I felt bad for the driver, but at least I knew chances were decent I wasn't getting a pig pen. In fact, the last truck I recovered was from a fella that had some kind of heart issue and had to have stints put in. Super nice fella and his truck was VERY clean.

 

It does, but I think he's talking about recovering abandoned trucks, not repossessing them. A lot of companies have drivers who do that... I remember seeing a Swift FL Columbia with a manual detach RGN which used to recover their wrecked trucks to bring them to.. wherever... I'm sure he was busy. I know the driver at Navajo who does that duty pretty well... don't know the details of what he gets out of it, but his duties are usually to pick up abandoned trucks, transfer trucks between yards if they need to be transferred in order to assign them, trucks get reassigned to dedicated accounts, etc. That sort of thing. Sometimes he goes out in a bobtail with a tow bar to recover broken down trucks, as well, or to deliver two trucks to another yard in one shot, or whatever. He's not a repo man - there's a HUGE difference, not to mention a repo man - if hired directly and not contracted (which most recovery agents are) - would be an employee of the finance company, and not the trucking company.

 

Recovery and repo are are pretty much the same in my book but you are correct. What I meant was that it sucks going to get them and not knowing who or what you're going to run into. I've only done a handful and none of them were fun by any means.

 

Not being the kind of scumbag who would destroy a truck, I did not realize that recovery drivers would be picking up bio-hazmat landfills. I take back my endorsement of this job for this pay!

 

LOL