How often do you leave?

I charge rates that allow me to sit for 4 hours without getting pissed off.

 

Unfortunately my company makes me stay otherwise honestly after 2 or 3 hours I would leave if I was owner op. If you give me an appointment for say 1 and haven't started by 3, why make the appointment. Because I'm sure if the roles were reversed and I made them wait there would be hell to pay. Ik because the couple times I missed my appointments starting out, the 3PL was mad

 

It's just so rare in my flatbed world I don't worry about it that much. In the last 3 years I can probably count on one hand the times I've had to wait over two, two and half hours, to get loaded. It's even better on the receiver side of things. Most the time they are chomping at the bit so hard I haven't even finished stowing gear before they start unloading.

 

You don't include your time spent securing or tarping the load? Getting the material on your trailer is only half the battle IMO.

 

I have done it, but I communicated with the broker. You have to be careful, because if you leave you run the risk of the broker putting you on the do not load list.

 

2 hours. Call my agent. Getting more money to sit? Cool. Send me new rate sheet. Don’t leave without it. Once waited 10 hrs for new rate sheet. Called agent to get new rate. Said I’d been sitting here 10 waiting. They got a little snippy. Told me to take it off. Ok, pay me $750 day rate, off it comes. Got my new rate ($1000 extra) and away I went

 

Don’t know if it’s been addressed on here ,but just getting mad and leaving will do damage to your service rating with the broker,if you’re operating on your authority,Where the broker will not load you again could depend on how many service failures you’ve had.It’s always better to get someone on the phone and explain the issue might get more money or they might just release you off the load. I’ve seen guys on here who act like they do it constantly they’ve probably ran out of brokers who will load them.Maybe losing a broker here or there might not be an issue if you don’t use them often or like TQL they don’t pay well anyway or they didn’t use to I should say no experience with them in years.

 

The, "service failure" was the Shipper or the Broker. The Carrier did their part. It's the other parties that failed. OP clearly stated he contacted the broker.

 

That is part of my responsibility so I don't count that against the shipper. If they get me loaded quickly I can do the rest pretty quickly.