Aren't most loads for reefer drivers live? I did it for a while didn't get a lot of drop n hooks! Switched to dry van more drop n hooks and no babysitting the loads! Some drivers seem to love reefer Why? I sit enough driving dry van I like drop n hook no waiting on getting to the docks but not 100% anywhere
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The final solution for me to the parasitic live loading, unloading troubles is McKesson. Drop hook your choice of loads or sometimes reasonably assigned loads to run safely by morning light. Get reloaded in 40 minutes cardboard bales back to Memphis and done. You are limited by your stamina and prey behavior with these million dollar loads.jeff18 Thanks this. -
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We joined a fleet that did nothing but McKesson early summer of 2001. FFE at that time was consistantly running us 5 to 7K miles a week maxed out but nothing on payroll $0.00 for three total paychecks in that amount behind. (Paperwork catching up, interchanges etc etc etc etc. We kept a record of everything done and had to comcheck through the DM which I suspected they enjoyed us doing the HR work for them.) We parted ways and joined the Little Rock Based Fleet and hauled for McKesson strictly Memphis.
Introduce 9-11 that morning we were in Detriot. Sat for about 4 hours during the attacks with about 20 other trucks on a major elevated cloverleaf south of there sort of. When we felt that there was a pause in the attacks we moved to deliver into the DC there on the south side of Detriot.
Come to learn that they were loading us for Linfield CT to the max volume of our Great Dane Reefer until the doors barely closed. Then we needed fuel and so on. Stoney Ridge Ohio TA took care of that at like 6 or 7 dollars a gallon for 310 or so plus reefer fuel. Company did not argue the fuel bill. We were due in Linfield CT 9-13. Crossed GWB at 9:32 PM 9-12.
I don't know the value of that load. And it was probably the one load that weight mattered on the CAT. All I can say is that I am blessed in my ignorance of how many millions it must have been that box going to NYC for all those people.
Anyway, wife took a decision that due to her new obesity enough was enough, go home and fix that problem for her it was necessary. For me I reverted to yard jockeying trailers from McKesson to Little Rock to stage for west coast teams, occasionally taking Apples from Yakima down to Safeway NW Atlanta overnights (12 hour drive but logs said 10) as a sort of vacation run when there were enough medicine loads staged, and back in the AM to Memphis)
I have not disclosed that fleet and not revealed much of anything about the property itself. But health issues was going to decide that I was to stop OTR very early 2002. And it was about 9 months after before a team of doctors and I realized just how sick and non DOT I was. And so the surgeries started. -
So, just a few months then?
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