Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

That's just sad in the current market. Not bad when the spot market is running below $2 per mile, but now it's really bad.

 

Family changes the equation, for sure. It doesn't make pretty trucks do more work, but it certainly changes how much time one might want to spend at home. No wife, no kids here. No mortgage.

 

I was at a rest stop last week and a guy pulled in with the cleanest truck I've ever seen. As soon as he stopped he jumped out and had a rag and was wiping the tanks down and wiping the truck down.

Myself when I stop the first thing I do is walk around the truck look at the truck look under the truck do I smell anything funny does anything look funny are the lights working are the tires good- is there anything anywhere that does not look right or that is a potential problem.

I'm lucky because my truck looks nice when it's washed but even when it's dirty it's a color that it just looks like a working truck it doesn't look like a filthy piece of junk.

But I always will be greasing the truck checking oils fixing little repairs or any of that kind of thing well before I actually wash it. I want everything mechanically 100% correct. But I do make sure the windows and windshields and mirrors are clean.

I'm not on the road as much as some of you guys, I tend to be more local. I wash the truck whenever I can but I'm probably closer to what Joe does.

I do tend to clean the inside alot more, but I am amazed?/ disturbed?/ confused?/ by those guys that have snow white plush carpeting in their trucks and they drive barefoot. ???

I'm not saying that's good or bad, my mind just can't comprehend it.

I'm like the Lost in Space robot...

That does not compute.

 

I’ve been hauling cubes and doing ranch deliveries all week. I’m confused if I’m allowed to wash my truck this afternoon or not. I don’t want to waste anyone’s time behind me because it was just washed last Friday and now I’ve heard there’s not enough margin in trucking to pay for weekly washes. I am not sure what to do, please help.

 

Is it raining this weekend?

 

Energy recovery fee... that’s a new one

 

lmao. Here comes the Volvo mafia to central point to do short haul! Kiss it goodbye.