Honest Question

By the way vanq, when I booked that 1.88 load out of Florida my actual board position was 34. I was surprised when I got it but booking a week ahead helped

 

Your off, but only by 2%, so I'll give you that one. I didn't do a actual turnover calculation.

 

Lol, much closer than 100 per cent. I am more interested in how you got 35 per cent

 

Ok, but you made my point, you got it because of your position, nothing else. The 34 doesn't impress me, because I understand how you can be 34 and get it. You could be 34 for many reasons, you could have 33 people that have their dates open, but are looking to load before you, which would make you 1.

 

Not exactly, my coordinator kept me in the loop these folks passed on the load, for whatever reason, many simply won't book that far out. And that load was scheduled to load Wednesday, I called and they loaded me Tuesday, I think the guys unloading Monday there were scared on by the Wednesday load date.

 

Because you still keep using a strait average vs real numbers. A average over a long span is a flat line, that doesn't show peaks and valleys. We were specifically talking about a set time period, specifically when the returned trailers were mentioned, or what led to it. That's why I keep saying your numbers are flawed.

 

Ok, but the point being if someone had takin it bofore you, you'd be SOL. Now, do you seriously think those 1800 people that left couldn't figure that out?

 

What you don't seem to grasp is there were no great peaks and valleys , and I am speaking of a general average over past few years, you seem to be talking some exact figure , last years peak month of 2600 was short lived, when each months figures are added and average, it brings even last year closer to 2400 than the peak, and once again at end of February it back to a smudge over 2400.

 

Really, this is your point? Of course if someone above me had taken it, I was not going to get it. But what you can't grasp is banking on human nature. Thinking that not to many guys would unload on Monday and becwilling tovwait until Wednesday to load, that's increased my odds. Also having loaded there before, I knew the odds were good I could load early. Now if I couldn't have loaded till Wednesday, no big deal, either, but I played a hunch, figured on human nature. Same reason I take loads to certain areas that only deliver on certain days, you know how the average guy thinks and use it to your advantage.

 

Sorry, 2600 and 2400 sounds right. Not sure how I Blew the numbers that bad when I knew that some 800 ppl signed on and some 700 ppl left throughout the year.