Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

The next 3 weeks will be telling. If I am around 3 months from now I won't be worried about ever going out of business. Not that it couldn't ever happen, I just won't be worried.

 

How does eclipse work? Do you find your choice of loads off a load board? Or do you have a fulltime broker providing a choice of loads? Do they keep you rolling & what are the average rates after dead head factored in?

 

Hmmm... yea Eclipse will run me hard alright. Is the person holding the wheel going to keep up? Not a chance...

Plan J is underway LOL!

 

They are a great company and you have a dedicated broker working for you. Hopefully they are not too swamped. My broker seems to be doing a decent job.

Rates are slipping... I would not advise joining at this point, but that is just a word of caution- not danger.

 

I got 10 repeat loads of beans from my farmer to cargill in Raleigh. Really needed (as was the plan) to do 2 a day though. Yesterday I learned that would not be possible. They are open only 7 to 3. I was there at opening, needed to be out by 8am to make it back, but there was a line of trucks as far as the eye could see. Didn't get out until 10am. So now I'm stuck with these doing half a day's work for 2 weeks. It pays pretty good but not enough to make up for loss of volume. To add to insult, Cargill spontaneously changed their hours to 7 to noon for thursday and friday, so even if it had worked, they'd have screwed me the rest of the week after the deals were assigned.

 

Dang, that really bites, Do you dare ask for a reach around...

those elevators are really turning into some real piece of works, from the way you have been describing them.