New horizons with Holland Enterprises (Fargo,ND)

At least if you get there early enough and put yourself in the sleeper, you’ll have have a good chance of having hours when you leave and won’t have to violate just to go park at the truck stop.

 

They almost always schedule appointments with an extra 20-24 hrs. So you either drive 65 and sit 20 hours for the appointment or you drive 70 and sit 21 1/2

 

I’ll drive 70 and pass all the slow trucks. You go ahead and do 65 and get stuck behind most of them while making $0.40 a mile if that’s what does it for ya. Good luck with that.

 

If you had any reading comprehension ability you wouldn't have resorted to petty insults and instead would have realized that I was referring to Holland Enterprise's inefficient appointment scheduling.

 

Insults right ok whatever

 

Yep.

 

I just don't see a lot of inefficient appointment scheduling. Maybe on the rare Walmart load there might be some excess time. And usually if I do see some time before appointment, I needed it anyway to allow some hours to accrue to better run that 2,800 mile load that's generally around the corner.

The shipper sets the appointments with a lot of Holland's stuff. And if it's too far out, often a phone call will get the appointment moved. Had Julie get a Portland shipper appointment out in Jersey moved just last week, to a Monday morning instead of Wed Morning.

I just submitted paperwork for my slowest 2 week pay period of the last 5 periods and it was 6,150 miles. I've done a lot of swaps too the past few weeks, all for another driver's benefit, but they worked out okay, but probably cost me more production than helped.

I'm doing a Walmart 2 dropper now that finals Harrisonville, MO. But it fits well with my limited recap hours coming.

 

When someone else is controlling your Dispatch driving a faster truck were almost never make you more money... It's a Myth

 

when you stay out for 2-3 months at a time and run on recap it really makes a difference . Sometimes it comes down to minutes which doesn't seem like a big deal but it all adds up at the end of the day

Maybe the drivers that are getting scheduled these long windows are not reliable because I'm always tight back to back and constantly running out of hours . what works for me though is simply driving at nights When it's permitted because I usually get my 650 miles in

Now if I ran with a company like say Walmart and was home every five days for my 34 hour reset I wouldn't care how fast the truck went

 

It seems that great plains trucks are running 67-68