Authority Operators need to standup against this broker market and warehouse workers!!!

THIS. This is what I'm talking about.

Some folks don't set rates this way. This is why we need to have a discussion about how we all come to set our rates. My rates also have a component of what I expect to make daily. From that, you can create a "base" rate and then you'll have another variable to determine your final cost per mile to offer to a broker, shipper, another carrier, whoever.

 

I know. I need to take a longer break.
I even bought a pack of cigarettes.
You're a nice person.
Have a good weekend.

 

So When you yell, “DUCK!” you don’t want to hear, “Where?!”

 

Yeah. Or spend the night in the woods with what's left of a choker setter that got hit by a runaway log and didn't have enough English to understand the guys yelling at him. The rest of the rigging crew were screaming at him and he just stood there grinning...and got run over.
The coroner's wagon and the helicopter couldn't make it 'til the next morning and it was too steep to pack him out. Somebody sitting with him all night kept the critters away from him.

 

Throw those #### cigarettes away! You're stronger than that.

 

I wish I could....

Oh sorry, you weren't talking to me.

Seriously though, it is a weakness, and us weak minded have a very difficult time overcoming it.

 

It's easy to quit. I've done it dozens of times.

 

I did once, for two years.

Why did I start again... cause I'm stupid.

 

I am currently training a gentleman with low English abilities. He is struggling to understand why he is not passing. He is not passing because he cannot read/comprehend road signs. The last three customer locations we went to had more than adequate signage. First one he didn't see and when I walked him back to it he didn't understand. Second one he stopped with his trailer still in the roadway while he read "all trucks proceede to the right around the building". Third one I was driving, scrap dealer so it's scale in/scale out. He'd seen the note about it in the work assignment and we'd looked at the place on Google maps and identified the scale. As I pulled on the scale he asked what I was doing. After pulling around to the docks I swapped him into the driver's seat so he could do the back and the yard jockey walked up and gave us instructions on where he needed us to go to be out of the way so he could open a dock. Easiest instructions ever:

"See that trailer in the corner with 416 spray painted on it? Nose up to that and I'll open up a dock for you".

My guy couldn't comprehend. I tried to explain what he needed to do, diagramming it with my toy truck, he still didn't get it. I did it, and he still didn't understand why I did it in the first place and why I maneuvered the way I did.

And he doesn't understand why he's failing.

It's hard to teach/instruct/learn when both parties don't speak a common language. It's even harder to convey the seriousness of a situation. On a job site, everyone needs to be speaking the same language. Off site, do your thing.

 

I heard this story of a Polack traveling on his vacation in the USA. He happened to be somewhere around Pittsburgh, Pa on I-76...
So he drives his rented car and sees a sign /Reduction 60\. So he slows down to 60 mph. Then after a while, he sees another sign /Reduction 40\, all right - he slows down the vehicle to 40 mph...and then after a while a similar sign /Reduction 20\ - he further slows down, a little surprised that everybody passes him by, not knowing why so many locals are showing him the middle finger. So he crawls alone at that turtle pace, becoming impatient and wondering why they want him to drive so slow on a big highway like that. Finally, he sees a few houses and a church maybe a barn or two, and .... a sign that says /Welcome to Reduction\