Longest empty trailer move?

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  1. jonboy29

    jonboy29 Light Load Member

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    unloaded in Vegas, sent to Denver, then rerouted to Baton Rouge to drop the trailer. About 2000 empty miles.
     
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  3. dmhughes09

    dmhughes09 Bobtail Member

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    2328 miles with an empty trailer from Yakima, Washington to Harvey, Illinois to pick up a load in the drop yard to take it 36 miles away to Elk Grove Village, Illinois
     
  4. DGStrong71

    DGStrong71 Road Train Member

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    It looks like you live in TN so maybe they just wanted to move you back east. Also, this sort of thing happens quite a bit when freight get slow in certain areas or the companies get too many truck in a particular market.
     
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  5. kf4omc

    kf4omc Medium Load Member

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    Tampa Florida to Clarksville TN. Came off of home time in Clearwater and deadheaded to Clarksville for a load. Little over 800 miles.
     
  6. RickG

    RickG Road Train Member

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    Some chemical shippers pay round trip for dedicated trailers that only carry their product . Not washing the trailers avoids risk of contamination . Some chemicals I pulled would react violently to water . The domes were kept sealed and were only opened to replace faulty gaskets or for annual liner inspection . The tanks were loaded and unloaded through a 4" flange .
     
  7. dmhughes09

    dmhughes09 Bobtail Member

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    Actually I'm on Caterpillar Dedicated account and we haul empty trailers a lot. Cat expects the company to have so many empty's at each location so rather then getting a back haul out of Spokane or Arvin, California we haul the trailer back empty.. I personally don't care whether it's empty or loaded as I get paid either way..
     
  8. DGStrong71

    DGStrong71 Road Train Member

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    Your profile show you live in Savannah, TN so its a little strange how you can run a dedicated account from Spokan to Arvin.
     
  9. RickG

    RickG Road Train Member

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    Does this say anything about a dedicated run from Spokane to Arvin ?
    . To me that means dedicated loads go TO Spokane OR Arvin then deadhead back .
     
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  10. DGStrong71

    DGStrong71 Road Train Member

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    Je déteste quand ça arrive ... j'espère que vous obtenez un bon rire!
     
  11. RickG

    RickG Road Train Member

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    Yup , LMAO . Now you can go back to Quebec . Maybe dmhughes09 should have posted in French.
     
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