We never backhaul hauling tanks. I run about 120,000 miles a year and 60,000 are MT miles. I’m paid the same as a company driver empty or loaded. All that time not wasted waiting until tomorrow for a backhaul translates to a five day work week. I’ll pull tanks until I set those brakes for the last time ever.
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We would do plant transfers to Church Hill. Drop the loaded and grab an empty back to Spring Hill. The next week a church hill dedicated would bring that trailer back with a load, drop it and take back the empty I just brought out.
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Our double drops always came back empty. Sometimes the flats or steps got routed to a customer with floor racks that needed returned. But right before we got merged with Wylie, Maverick under cut our rates on some lanes, so some of the regulars had to do back-hauls on certain deliveries...mostly granite out of TX and a few drivers with coil experience backhauled steel. The original owner of Moore found out that it was actually more profitable to deadhead back most of the time because they needed the empty trailer at the glass plant, and if they backhauled something, that tied up the trailer for an extra couple days and they couldn't reload soon enough.Last edited: Sep 3, 2022
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Well, it's another hurry up and wait load for me. Told Op's I would be delivering Monday morning (confirmed with the consignee), but nothing was assigned before the office went home on Friday. Would have been nice to know what my next load was, even if it loaded on Tuesday, that way once I got empty I could head towards my next shipper and be ready to load. Now I have to wait until they come in at 7 am PDT on Tuesday to find something, which is one of the downsides of SPD...If you're on the east coast, it's s usually after noon your time before you find out where your headed to pick up.
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