PRIME Drivers... What's your 20? (2)

If any one picks up from swift meats, be prepared for hell, the drop yard is extremely tight (maybe 5 inches between trailers) and the charge a washout, and spotter fee to pick up a trailer, even if it's washed out when it arrives, plus there's a 75 dollar fee if your tandems aren't all the way back when you disconnect from the trailer, I thought about just dropping my trailer in the middle of the drop yard and telling them "if your charging me a spotter fee, then I might as well give them some work"

 

A large percentage of Prime's drop and hook customers charge spotter fees. It's mostly paid for as part of the billing process though, and not thru the drivers. If you're a lease op, you'll see on the copy of the freight bills you get "Shipper spotting of trailer" as a deduction at all most all drop and hook customers.

As the washout goes, most meat plants with their own on-site wash will wash out the trailer themselves, since there are more than a few drivers out there that would just pour a gallon of water in the back of the trailer and call it a day. Whenever I delivered in Denver, I always waited on my dispatch before I would get washed to make sure I wouldn't wash and then get sent to Ft. Morgan where they would wash it again.

$75 for failing to slide the tandems? Good. I hope it's gets charged to the lazy driver that didn't want to take 2 minutes to do his job correctly. I was working as a yard jockey at a cardboard plant all last week, and they will reject trailers if the tandems aren't slid back. Had one carrier that lost 2 loads because they had no correctly dropped trailers.

 

Orefield PA at my 90 waiting for them to tell me when to open the doors

 

At home in sunny FL on the last day of my home time then off to Oregon with a load of flowers...yay. nap time because I will be driving out of FL tonight.

 

I coulda been nice and slid them...

Or I could let their trailers be rejected and have the freight go to the backup carrier....

Someone where I work should give me a bonus for not being nice.

 

Got this load repowered, got stuck in the gravel hell that is img chicagos yard while dropping an empty, but home at long last

 

In tonapah AZ sitting even closer to my 90 and a good weekend at home.

 

houston tx fj.....san Antonio then kerrville tx tomorrow then see what d load board brings for the weekend