Anyone ever pick up/deliver to a military base?

You guys are crazy if you think they don't ever or won't go through the interior cab of your truck with a fine tooth comb at a military base. I went to Pensacola Naval base one time and while one sailor was going thru all of my cabinets, duffel bags, looking under the mattress digging through everything the other was all underneath my unit with a mirror and rifling through my sideboxes. I don't know if they were on high alert or what. They were checking every delivery truck going on site like that. I have been to other military bases, which I won't name, which basically wave you on through what I thought was really lax security. I try to avoid them altogether. From brokers these kind of government loads have been stripped down to cheap nothingness anyways especially for dry vans.

 

Rc, I agree with you and have had the same experience. One base waves you by with barely a glance, another goes throughevery nook and cranny in the truck. I would never risk it considering I'm way too cute to be headed to prison and that is definitely not the place to be the popular skinny white boy.

Fyi, I've heard Menlo is being phased out so you should see those rates go back up. It's a drastic difference in the rate I get when Menlo is involved vs when they are not in the loop.

 

I would hope so. The trouble is old ones get shown the door and new greedy ones come into the picture. That's what happened with Amazon freight this year. Some of the old players still have it but they are all on the same memo as the new ones now trying to peg all trucks regardless of pick times/demand, or length of haul to cheap $1.80-$1.90 a mile. Really difficult to get solid rates out of those loads just like last year only much worse. Amazon of course has the same deep pockets and when the brokers book this stuff they are certainly not cutting amazon any slack.

 

edit. I got a big mouth and need to learn to keep it shut

 

Lol... I've done that a time or 10. No biggie.