Help! Load refused no one wants it!

Don't axe me

 

Waste Management will probably buy it.

 

Waste Managment would not buy scrap. They are collectors, then transport to recycling aggregators or operators.
The places they take stuff to may pay for the scrap, depends on what it is. Why did the reciver reject it. If contaminated, then you have a real problem, and about all you can do is trash it at a landfill.

On the other hand, depending on where it came from, and where the shipper or broker are located in proximity to your loaction, A few well placed straps and an anchor point, you would be surprised what could happen.

 

Call International Paper in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Where are you located now??

 

Where you at?

Somebody might of just screwed you big time. Why would an IC ever take a scrap paper load? Those things don't cover the cost of fuel. The megas only run scrap paper because it keeps a DH off the books; these loads barely cover the cost of fuel.

 

My company hauls lots of scrap loads. I do believe they are profitable, at least for them.

 

^^ Most trucking companies buy mixed scrap paper from the landfill for say around $25 a ton. The paper mills will pay around $50 a ton. So if a truck can haul 24 ton, the load can gross around $600 for the load.

Unless the mill your selling it to is real close by, and most cases it isn't, that is a crap rate. It can pay off around the 300mile mark for a company that pays CPM. It doesn't pay off at all for at all for an O/O.

Chances are somebody loaded up this guys truck with scrap paper only because there is no customer near by that would pay off for hauling it.

 

Yes , they will buy it buy the 100lb weight. Worked at a recycling plant for years. Grade will set price. Better price would be a mill, but chances of getting anyone to talk to you at a mill!

 

Finally... an explanation for why you're hungry again in half-an-hour.

 

Whats your 20 on that load?