Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

NO deductible ? That's a good deal right there.

 

I came out of the house the 14th. It feels like I have had the slowest couple of weeks in a long time. Alot of 300-400 mile days and 15 hour breaks. Today would make 16 days out and I'm waiting on my load home to the house to take another week off. To this point I still drove 6410 miles in 16 days and will do about 7600 in 18-19 days by the time I get to the house. That's not to bad for the slowest I've been in a while.

 

Been out since 6/15 if my memory is correct and am
currently at 5868 mi

 

Seems like your on the extra board at a ltl company

 

Just some odd loads this go around.

I'm at 37-38k through June taking 6-8 days off a month. Can't complain to much because that's pretty good for myself.

 

Did they turn Cottage Grove into a regional too

 

This regional stuff is more rumor than anything at the moment. I've heard out west had 2-3 guys that do some sort of dedicated regional. I've heard Carolina poly does also but I never met them and heard it wasn't good. No clue what loads they are even taking.
The new talk is about Texas regional. I heard they are having issues with drivers not taking alot of the shorter loads , so they're trying to come up with something for people who would be interested as there's plenty of guys who don't want to run hard.
I know of one guy that is doing a up north regional type thing. That's about it. At this point its alot of chatter between drivers more than anything.

 

Here’s a suggestion you can drop in their ear.

Take a page out of the play book that all those short/medium haul irregular route carriers use. I’m taking Crete, Rigel, JB Hunt, Big G, etc...

Get with the customers in Texas and make those drop and hooks. If they make it where drivers can make a turn in a day (go and get back to GP) and get set up for the next day, they wouldn’t have any issues getting drivers to take them.

 

try finding drivers who want to go in and out of the plant in grand prairie every day or even every few days, drivers do their best to avoid it so its no surprise they dont want shorter runs, shorter runs are just a quicker return to madness. lol

 

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