Anyone else catch this release

Unless you can double your mileage..

 

That’s the point. You’re not doubling your mileage. I would run 4-5k a week consistently by myself. You’re going to be at the same mileage with another person in the truck. If you’re familiar with how that part of the industry works then you would understand what I’m talking about. The work isn’t there to go run team week after week all year. It’s cyclical depending what part of the country you’re in at given times during the year.

That’s why I get a chuckle when someone says “just run team” because it clearly shows you’re not familiar with it. I don’t go in reefer threads because I’ve never done it and don’t know the ins and outs, but for some reason everyone seems to know how to haul livestock.

 

I guess people think the have sales every Sun-Friday and you just run, run, run until it’s over. Nope, around here, it’s pickup sales for buyers the first couple days, then around wed or thurs you are headed out west on something around 800-1000 miles.

 

Do you mean hauling livestock is more complex than paper towels and tampons and maybe just maybe some common sense exemptions are a good thing? Never done it myself but I sure have run many a load of Playtex. Lol. Luckily they are pretty light when they have never been used.

 

talking about safety in trucking reminds me of talking about ending child hunger, been talking about it for 50 yrs and nothing has changed, and it never will, people dont profit off of solutions, they just create a solution that creates more problems thus creating more profit off of those new problems. and so we go.

 

If a bull hauler is driving 4 to 5 THOUSAND A WEEK then they have real problems.
Either they’re stupid or really stupid.
They lose the argument that a load of livestock can’t sit for 10 hours.
The ELD would just stop them from booking extra loads each week.
Do Bull haulers get paid so little that they need to run that many miles?

 

We dont run on the CPM. So much you have yet to figure out yet your steady flapping your lips. I get it you hate us it's ok I don't mind a bit. Grind your axe till their is no bit for the handle. It's not going to change it.

 

I didn’t have to, I didn’t want to sit around 3-4 days a week so I took the extra work. It was my choice. My last full year of doing it I ran just under 150k miles. I came out at $2.94 for all miles, with 34% deadhead. So yep, the pay is crap. You figured it out.

Now you can do the math and see that by my total miles for the year and my own admission of running 4-5k a week that everyone’s solution to run team wouldn’t work very well. It’s seasonal work. So you make hay when the sun shines. And a load of livestock can’t sit for 10 hours, so that statement just shows your ignorance on this topic. Eventually they will lay down, and then get stepped on, then you can’t get them back up so you’re paying for it out of your pocket. Not every trip can be done in 11 hours, and that’s the issue. You can’t just rest the load at any old place you feel like without risking sickness from other cattle that have been there.

But keep piping up, by the replies you can easily who has no clue about livestock. I’m going to start replying to threads I’m ignorant about, like guys complaining about detention time, and I’ll just say “stop going there” and then that will solve the issue, right?

 

Would this work?
Ted needs to drive to a slaughterhouse 13 hours away,, without the ELD he can get there without a 10 hour break.
But once Ted gets unloaded he takes a 10 hour break before driving again.

That's why we have ELDs, not because the mega drivers couldn't create a legal looking log sheet. But because drivers wanted to drive non stop on public roads.

 

They like it for the most part, couple guys I know have been working those sort of hours every day since they were in their teens, as in 14. The one guy I know has put 100 hour weeks in at a regular landscaping job, some people believe it or not actually like their job and don't need or want to sit on their ### in a truckstops for 10 hours a day. If the whole hos bs was truly about safety there would be laws against working more than 14 hours a day at a normal job and then driving home.