FedEx Freight Diary (ala Russian Rabbit)

I mean, on paper I did take it in the shorts. However, when I was halfway done with my return trip, I still would have been napping waiting for my trailers typically.

So it could have been worse, but it was still great.

Sitting on my break in New Jersey now at the meet point. No via on the return trip home so if all goes well I should be home be 6.

 

I’d retire a happy man to retire on one of our NJ runs.

I’ve managed to learn about 15-20 go arounds off of 95/287/87. Enough that I am almost impervious to construction or accident delays through that corridor. The challenge of navigating through a sea of dip$hi+s is very addicting to me lol.

#mentallyscrewed

 

Unfortunately, no. The gate time on that spot is 0300 and the run is under the amount of miles to qualify for hub turn delay (Which would begin after my break had finished). If I would have sat past the gate time, I would have put in for delay.

 

1) All hubs (to my knowledge, at least all the hubs in my region) have scales. Some end of line centers however, do as well, most do not. If I had a load I wished` to scale and don't have access to one on FX property, I could use my fuel card to make use of a CAT scale at a truckstop if need be. As a general rule in the NorthEast, freight going out sucks, freight going in is gravy. So from an end of line center, I've never had a questionable trailer (weight wise). And out of the 3 hubs in my region that I could go to, only 1 of them are habitual offenders of overloading trailers. Naturally, that's the one I'm bidded to.

3) There's a few convoluted rules on the delay time as an hourly pay that we have, all based on the length and type of run. Meets qualify for delay after your break, regardless of trip length. Shuttle runs don't qualify for delay time, between 400-475 miles, below 400 miles it is mandatory for dock work. Hub turns (runs over 475 miles to a hub) qualify for delay after your break. My run is a shuttle run that doesn't require dock work. Instead of working the dock all night (being last in the lane that has a 3-4 hour delay window until my trailers are ready). Sure, I could pump another 15-20 hours into my paycheck, but I'd rather sleep and be bright eyed for the return trip.