Break me in?! If I get a Fm ima gonna ask in a nice way to run me hard ill show u what I'm made of ..
I may be a newbie but not a scary cat or a whimp!
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Discussion in 'Prime' started by bartage, May 6, 2009.
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Yeah they are. My uncle has a 2011 that he drives for maverick and I've got to say I'm impressed with how nice the inside of the truck is.
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That's messed up that u had to haul juices from the east coast to the mid west and the pay per mile wasn't great. I mean your Fm either was a cheapskate or he playing favoritism towards drivers on his board.
Either way it was wrong and dirty..
ty for the advice on the topic on how not to take cheap loads!!
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So you were a lease op that got a load @ .49 cpm with no FSC? Was that on percentage?
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Yuppers. This is something I've tried to stress in the lease thread: You absolutely have to know what your numbers are, and that can't be left to a CPA at tax time. If you're running a lease business, and you don't have a handle on what your bottom line costs are there's no way you'll know whether it makes sense to turn down a load. Or if you're even making money.
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How about when you deliver your load at 9AM after sleeping all night, and then get told you have to pick up another load at 7PM-8PM and drive all night to deliver say at 5AM. You get tired quick as you sleep clock is totally off. But it is all a test. Sucks but true.
Best thing you can do is at your 1st meeting with your FM, discuss your expectations and limitations. Mine was I wanted 2500 miles a week and I would not drive on Ice. I told him I would run at 55mph, unless he wanted me or the load dictated I run faster. He always met my expectations, I was never late on a load, never had an accident, never b@tched about a load and towards the end I was running loads at 64mph average, but being paid as if I was running them at 55mph.
Basically you need to become the solid driver on the board, who will do whatever it takes to get the job done, legally of course.
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A good working relationship with your FM is essential to success, company, lease, or O/O. Just like the relationship you build with customers and brokers if you are running your own operation. That does not mean that you have to kiss butt, but that you have to have understanding and respect. I joke a bit with my business associates, but I also grill em when my BS detector goes off.
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TO ironypony: thank you for the advice and my goodness I didn't know during those years 08-09 was horrible. Have frieght loads numbers bounced back or are they the same??
To highway 101 : yea that does make sense because if you do well with scrappy loads afterwhile
u get the good stuff. Also how about the loads that most people don't want or loads that are odd. Does that happen a lot getting loads that are odd? The only person how far you can go humanly possible is yourself but its wise to talk to your Fm about what u can or cant do plus driving legally. Thxs highway 101
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