The day to day ramblings of the LTL business.

Taking over a new route monday, the area just to the south of mine, but with an earlier start time.

Seniority has its rewards for those who are patient.

 

I'll admit that of the three routers we have, mine is probably the most competent. But Friday's little brain fart left me wondering.

He had me and the straight truck next to me finishing at places that were about a mile apart, and neither place had access issues.

We made a king's ramsom off of two of friday's pickups. The last two bills I picked up friday pretty much stuffed the trailer to the door with big, empty wooden crates. Two 2000lb shipments billed at class 200 means big bucks.

 

That's usually a bad sign. I've found that an easy day is often a premonition of the next one being difficult.

 

Whenever I've had that happen it was because I had a volume shot with an appointment that they had to cut several bills to make fit.

So what happens is you'll have the next day's freight to deliver plus half from the previous day. No different than having 5 or 6 returns.