Do any expediters run legal?

Gotcha, good luck.

Stan

 

OK so you are independent from the company, having your own authority and such, right?

OK now does this mean you are leased to the company?

Why?

I mean I would do 6 to 12 weeks out at a time and the average wait time for many companies works out to 34 hours but the 15 minutes are unacceptable because you have to have time for a pre-trip, etc ...

By the way, you have to learn about where to sit and what areas work for your company.

Don't take this wrong but BS. OK the company isn't working for you and they need to step up and do something because there is a lot of freight out there that can fit on your truck and it is not needed yesterday.

Are you married to the company?

Find another one if they throw this stuff at you. Even vans shouldn't be doing this run.

DO NOT bend the rules, don't screw up your license - find another company.

OH yes, I know of a few, some of these companies are strict about HOS and having legal logs but they also depend on the driver to communicate with them.

Not at all.

DO NOT try uship, it is for scam drivers.

You need to look at Load-1, FedEx, Panther, Landstar and a few others out there.

Nope not doable by the normal 47 mph that many companies used as a standard, no one does an average 65 when planning their loads in this business, it is 47 mph so 1800 miles is about 38 hours of driving then you have loading and unloading at each end, say an hour plus in that time you will have two 10 hour breaks. I would take the load, picking up Monday morning and delivering Thursday morning but have the delivery time for the afternoon. If they want it there faster, get a team to haul it.

 

Nope not doable by the normal 47 mph that many companies used as a standard, no one does an average 65 when planning their loads in this business, it is 47 mph so 1800 miles is about 38 hours of driving then you have loading and unloading at each end, say an hour plus in that time you will have two 10 hour breaks. I would take the load, picking up Monday morning and delivering Thursday morning but have the delivery time for the afternoon. If they want it there faster, get a team to haul it.[/QUOTE]



I can't speak for your business, but over here if I or my drivers figured a 47mph average, we would both have been out of business a long time ago. My trucks are set up for 69mph on cruise and another 3 mph "on the pedal".

We only max out at 50,000 so I can run up hill and down hill AT the speed limit all day long. That trip, as I outlined (30 hours drive/on-duty) IS doable at this company, legally. I would NOT put my drivers in that position on purpose, but if I told my drivers that we were going to start figuring dispatch on 47mph they would all laugh,,,,,, just before they quit.


Using your 47mph average, NOT EVEN A TEAM could make that deadline running NON-STOP!

 

Wow you must not make much money, I've got one truck that does an average of 50 mph for the month and this is making good money.

The norm for most companies, like FedEx, Panther, Landstar, Load-1, Express-1 and so on is between 45 and 47 mph. The number is used not for rushing but to prevent rushing and let the customer know the expectations of the service.

My experience is if you plan on anything over 50, you will end up missing deadlines and so on because running it tight isn't the best thing to begin with.

 

We do fine, and have been for over twenty years, as far as running tight, we have been on Central Dispatch since they started and have maintained at or near a 100 percent rating for all of those years, look us up.

We are also Inter City Carriers (one of the top rated high end transport companies in the country) "go to guy's" 50mph MAYBE if you are on strictly short runs, my guys average over 3200 miles per week, always have.

Maybe I need to look into putting some straight trucks on the road?

 

Once you go straight, you never go back....

Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk 2

 

lol

 

No don't just park where they tell you, you have to keep a log of sorts to know where these loads are coming from, even if they say "stay put" I worked for one company who had three of us sitting outside of Springhill waiting for work, "oh there is a lot of stuff coming out of there, you're the next one out" but the problem was we were all sitting together calling dispatch and seeing if they changed their story. Finally we all left without their "permission". That happens a lot so changing companies is in your best interest and don't worry about what the company wants, it matters what you need.

I understand where you're coming from, it works for you so nothing wrong with that but for us, we have to deal with that number.

 

I read FedEx Custom Critical gives contractors a list of brokers they can call to get loads out of dead areas .