Indian River

Thank you.

 

Those are probably Clovis regional trucks going back and forth to the Denver area from the Texas panhandle. I’m not sure how plentiful those loads are.

 

A buddy of mine who came over from my previous company runs a dedicated route for Clovis. He’s mentioned to me on the phone a few times that some of the dedicated drivers over there run loads up to Platteville, CO from Hartley, TX. They go up to 70 and across in order to avoid Raton Pass. I’m guessing that’s who you see. I rarely haul dairy loads and only see the Clovis terminal once every year or two, so I don’t have much knowledge on that region. There used to be a local Clovis driver who participated in this thread a few years ago. I’m not sure if they’re still active on here or not. If so, hopefully they can jump in and answer.

 

X2 on Redtwin’s response. Although, we do receive detention pay if we arrive on time and are held up longer than 2 hours. It’s not technically loading/unloading pay, but detention occurs at customers, so a person could call it that in a sense.

The drop and hooks vary. As an OTR driver, 75% of my loads tend to be drop/hook. The live loads/unloads are fairly quick nowadays. I’m usually not on customer property long enough for detention pay to kick in. As far as tank washes go, I rarely live wash. 8 times out of 10, I pick up clean tanks at IRT terminals or drop/hook with a clean one at a tank wash.