Stepping Out With My Own Numbers

Winter has come. I’ve been in MA, ME, NH, VT, and NY the past several days. Lots of snow. They had signs up for max speed 45 on 95, 93, and parts of 89. NY was ok, just a lot of blowing snow. Some of the smaller roads between ME and NH on my way to VT sucked. I had a multi pick multi stop load; with all the stops in the trailer, it was only 15k pounds and decreasing as I delivered. It paid really nice though. Finally heading to PA and out of this crap. My truck and trailer are completely brown right not from all the chemicals and slush. I was surprised ME was as bad as it was. I figured they’d be mire on top of it than that. All the picks on this load were in and around Boston, also los of fun.

 

NH and VT were better once I stopped for the night. Gave the plow trucks a chance to do something. 95 from Boston to ME was the worst of the trip. I got off not far into ME on 109 to start heading West. They hadn’t done much at all on 95 and it was really bad.
I’ll be filling up again sometime tomorrow. I last filled in Erie, PA, and so far, my average speed on this fill is 37 mph. I had a heavy usual load to Westfield, MA, the multi pick drop load ending in VT, and now another heavy load to PA.

 

If I’m familiar with a place and know they have ridiculous wait times, I’ll just figure it into the rate. Negotiating layover and detention with brokers is a lost cause. They don’t want to turn around and hit their customer because they don’t want to lose the business. These customers will just find some other broker that won’t charge them.

 

I got a load booked for tomorrow back to MO. That won’t be the problem though. I had an awesome load today, 115 total miles, 900.00, delivers at 0400. I get over here and these people loaded it on one of their trucks. They paid me a 300.00 layover and I’m still able to get the next one. This kind of stuff gets on my nerves.

 

I’ve seen some of those. I really like this one because I would end up near the same place I delivered that morning and would put me on top of this MO load. The MO load is important because I’m setting myself up for a long haul over the holiday for big money back to the East coast.