Doubles and Triples Operational Standpoint

Yup, there's an old saying in this biz: "everytime you touch freight, you're losing money."

 

That describes Phoenix pretty well, it's almost all loads in/empties out. There's an opportunity there for someone.

 

Yeah, well that is the way it is supposed to work. Until you get some fork lift jocks and dock hand that A) can't read a manifest, B) are too stupid to understand, C) just don't giveadamn or D) deliberately sabotage every thing they can in a misguided attempt to "get back at" the company that "screws them over." Idiots...

No no, Mike, what I hears was that they ordered 53 700' trailers....

 

Nah they are more like beam trailers where the driver has a remote.

Don't forget to wake up your pilot car.... Oh and some states no night travel.... LOL

Sysco uses some space in our yard. They come in with 2 each 48' and one 28' trailer every day. Each trailer is for a different driver. The 48' trailers deliver around town and have more stops or bigger drops. The 28' has the smaller drops and the longer distances for the ones outside town.

 

This is true. It really depends on the size of the operation. The dock in the yard I ran out of, was a cross dock operation, with enough doors that a few of them were permanently taken up by old trailer's used for storage.
OTOH, the dock up the road 50 miles or so, was a single door, small dock in a building shared by several outfits. What a PITA that was, having to break down line haul, get that trailer parked, grab your delivery trailer, drag it back to the dock and load it. What a frustrating mess that could be, when things went wrong. Which, of course they could be counted on to do.