Repower?

One driver picks up a load and swaps trailers with another driver, then the second driver delivers.

 

Loss wages

 

Winner.

 

It simply means the load gets "reloaded" to another driver before reaching the final. There are many reasons this can happen. From a driver having an emergency to a driver getting fired. About a month before I retired I picked up a load out of a Truck Stop in Alabama after the driver assigned to it had quit. he abandoned the truck and load. I got the load and another driver, later on, got the truck, and the empty I left.

 

99 out of 100 times when a load is re-powered, the 2 trucks involved simply swap trailers in a parking lot. Some companies routinely use solo drivers to go into crowded cities and get trailer loaded. Then have the solo drivers start toward some cross-country destination, with an expectation of a big paycheck. Then that solo drivers gets a message to meet a team truck somewhere and swap trailers. Solo drivers gets paid mileage for what he drove, but he spends all his time waiting at shippers and driving in city traffic, not getting the long and easy trips with big paychecks.

 

Sometimes lol......I've repowered a few loads and been on the winning end.

 

The lines between a repower and a simple drop&hook have been blurred a bit. Almost all of the larger carriers use drop&hooks at terminals and customers as much as they can. Then they use "local" drivers in day cabs to ferry loads and empty trailers from customers to terminals or drop yards. Most of the time these local drivers are not assigned to the loads, they just ferry them and are paid by the hour. A repower though is a bit different. A repower can and often does happen in a terminal, but most do happen in drop yards and Truck Stops.

Let's use an imaginary load going from Atlanta to Phoenix. In Atlanta, a local driver will pick up the load and ferry it to the carrier's terminal on the southeast side of I 285 and drop it. This is NOT a repower in the classic use of that word. Now, a driver is assigned that load that lives near Dallas Texas. After picking that load up said driver is notified of a family emergency and asks to be taken off the load. Another driver is headed to Dallas to live unload and will be finished by the time the Phoenix load gets there. In Dallas, they meet up and exchange trailers. Now the first driver can take an empty trailer home and deal with that emergency. THAT is a repower. Then that 2nd driver picks up in Dallas and takes the load to a drop yard in Phoenix and drops it. Then later a Phoenix local driver will go spot the trailer and bring back another loaded trailer to the drop yard. This is NOT a repower in the classic sense.