Hauling Milk?

@Blackshack46

 

Methuselah (X1) hasn't driven in 773 years. Be wary of the advice you take from him.

 

@wore out
@Cattleman84

 

I haven’t hauled over a gallon of milk from the grocery store, but I have done a lot of work in milk plants. I don’t know if they all are like this, but all the ones around the Nashville area can have very long wait times to unload. I’ve seen trucks piled up 10 deep waiting.

Worst of all is delivering to Country Delight Dairy in Nashville. It’s right on the edge of downtown with traffic from he**, nowhere to park, and a real mess to get across the scales and to the unload point. I’ve seen drivers literally fight each other there.

 

I ran tanker for a DFA contracted outfit a few months. Linehaul. From eastern NM to about D/FW, OKC, occasionally Little Rock or Fayetteville or Denver.

Pays miles only. Low. You NEED an ungoverned truck.

Hook at one end. Deliver and sleep at either end. 50% empty.

If living in rural area, with next to no bills, run 2-3/loads per week and it’s okay.
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High .40'\s was what they paid top drivers in the 2001 era. Which in those days was pretty good money.

The problem I have is the constant inflow of a new generation who are too anxious to have a job still in the 30's per mile or 40 plus. They don't understand that's what the trucking company will only pay, knowing that today they need to pay in excess of .65 for newbies and pretty much a dollar for veterans. (But you will never see these rates... for several generations)

I would be happy to pay 2.00 a pound for apples at the store from Yakima WA if that money above 1.45 currently will make sure that the driver or drivers each get that much per mile or a nice salary to concentrate on being safe with those apples to my state.

 

I used to pay $1 a mile loaded but I have slowed down and sold my trucks other than the 2 that I play with it so much easier to pay a trucking company when I need more trucks and so much less stress dealing with drivers