Swift o/o do you haul empties to p/u?

So are you saying swift charges the lease o/o a fee to pull swifts trailer? And that's a problem being a lease o/o?
Notice I bolded a key word.

To lease to a company means you play by their rules. What they say goes. Doesn't matter if you are a lease o/o. It's part of the contract. If bobtailing from A to B is more your style, buy your own truck and get your own authority. Then find your own customers.

But as long as you are leased, you have a boss above you, and if they want to have you pull an mt then that's the game.

Just look at the Schneider choice threads. Those guys are "apparently" the bees knees of lease o/o's and they all still moan and complain about have to move so many mt trailers for schnieder.

It also makes sense for this practice. Why have a company driver move a trailer, when you can have a lease o/o move the trailer and swift doesn't have to foot the bill on fuel and having an unloaded truck down while in transit.

This is what you guys accept when you do these things to yourselves.

8th and I though are the dummies. Figure that one out.


Haha, 8th and I....

Marine barracks.

 

It just common sense to bring a empty trailer to pick up a preloaded trailer otherwise there would not be any preloaded trailers. THINK GEE WIZ ITS NOT THAT HARD. What you think a trailer gets to the shipper by itself?? No it's taken in by another driver or owner op

 

Actually, no. Swift pays mt miles, whether pulling an mt or bob tailing.

This guy is a case study of why leasing gets such a bad rap. L/Ps aren't inherently a scam. It's the fact that the ignorant and uneducated are given the opportunity, fail and then scream they got screwed ... the OP is already well on the path to failure. He doesn't understand the business relationship with his customer and can't perform a simple analysis.

 

I read this tonight actually in another thread you were involved in.

It was going to be my next point I made, whenever the op came back with a witty reply, but not too witty that he actually contributes to the thread.

 

If he thinks it cost more in fuel to pull an empty to his next D/H, wait til he gets to the P/U bobtail and they ask him where his empty is?? Then he has to bobtail 100 miles to get an empty then drag the empty back to the shipper to get his preloaded trailer.
That is the way you save that .001/G per mile over pulling an empty in the first place.

 

Do they pay the same for loaded miles if the load is heavy or the load is light? What happens if you encounter a strong headwind?

 

Thanks. I have now taken this picture for repeated future use, both here and in other formats.
I appreciate it!

 

Here we go. This gem popped up tonight. Perfect example @MO_Dad.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...r-service-victories-for-freightwipper.328304/

 

If you have to stress and worry about lost revenue from fuel mileage all the time - as in the negligible amount of fuel savings of bobtail versus pulling an empty trailer... ....you're doing this trucking thing all wrong. Give the truck back to Swift. The rates and expensive lease is set up to fail you unless you team or train in that sweat shop on wheels, never, ever going home. There is good money in trucking but you won't ever see it leased to a company like Swift.