another what would you bid?

When I went on harvest we drove combines to any job less then 50 miles away. They went 23 and it seemed line an eternity.

 

If you go to NEW AG TALK, there are posters on there claiming to have driven farm equipment from Texas to Canada. Others have spent several days moving equipment from one place to another, over a thousand miles. Especially big combines. Just saying,....

 

I not sure if you have hauled anything lately for them but im impressed with what ive got out of them lately im picking up a LTL load going to KY that pays $2,600 3,900lbs and only 12ft of deck space.....

 

I'm assuming its the agents or something. Apparently we have a good one. When we do need a brokered load CH is one of our first calls.

 

On a short-haul like that, $5 mile is my bottom line, especially when oversize......

like stated, add in all your costs and the fact you will 500 miles in fuel to pay for and your bid was fine.

 

Do I understand this correctly ? They contacted you, got you to submit a bid, but then the guy says, "thanks for wasting MY time" ??!!! what a dooshbagel.

If his time was so valuable, he would have hired you. You know darn well he will be spending time every day for the next few weeks making calls, gossiping with his neighbors, etc.... until he finds the absolute cheapest price possible. Prolly spend 100 hours of his "valuable time" to save $500.00.

 

A hay farmer actually gave me $20 today. Was at the Richie Bro's Auction picking up a forklift for a customer in my rollback, they said, we have to use their ramp. Well it's taking a while for my customer to sort out his stuff. I see this old guy paused on the ramp at the foot of his trailer. There is about a 3" drop from the ramp to the trailer, then factor in, he is driving a pickup with a 5th wheel trailer and when the 7 thousand pounds of that forklift goes on the rear end of the trailer, its likely to drop another 6 inches.


I know its unsafe, like, I just see accident waiting to happen. So I walk to my customer and ask him if he minds me helping this guy out. He says, no problem.


So I load it up on my truck and tell him to move his truck in the wide open so I can load it onto his. So as he is driving the forklift from my trailer to his, his trailer really starts dropping, so I raise my stabilizer bar to take some pressure off his trailer.


So we get it loaded and he realized how much his trailer dropped even with my trailer supporting it. So he offered to buy me a beer and pulled out his wallet and said is $20 ok? I was like yea, that's perfect. I told him, I'd come back and help make sure his chaining was legal after I got my truck set back up. So, I do that and come back and he tells me that his trailer drops and I can't help but think of the accident that could have happened because they wanted to force him to use a ramp instead of allowing him to load his trailer via the method it was designed. It was a bit of a nusance for me to load using the ramp as well but at least, I'm set up that I can do it safely. I'm suprised they haven't had an accident yet enforcing that rule. Man that ramp was well bumped, they had every type of truck and trailer loading forklifts.

 

I've loaded at several Ritchie Bros sites and they always tell you where you piece is located. They also told me where their loading ramp was, but never told me i HAD to use their ramp. Wonder if that's specific to the Houston location maybe?? I've seen plenty of guys drop their ramps and load up. Heck, trying to find someone FROM Ritchie Bros to even ask a question is usually impossiable

 

To be fair, I was never told that, my customer was there first and that is what he told me. The farmer also told me that. However, you are right, once they give you your keys and do the paperwork, your pretty much on your own and probably could load however you want. I ended up waiting an hour before he got another key and sorted everything out.