BD69: The Owner Operator Chronicles

Your buddy scooter here at his last employer.

 

There are great paying beer loads?

 

Beer loads pay $2.20 a mile north. $1.20 a mile lumber south. You do the roundtrip math. It's horrendous. But like Barnum said, "there's a sucker born every minute."

 

LOL

 

And I'm supposed to go there tomorrow. There's a load for me going home on Monday, delivers in Albuquerque on Wednesday.
Had heavy snow on Vail Pass to Golden.

 

I've seen $2,000+/- bucks offered on beer loads from the Cincinnati area shipping down to distributors in the middle Tennessee area just before the Bonaroo event started up in Manchester, TN. But that is supply and demand. Normally trucks are easy to find that are happy to haul beer cheap. My memories as a company driver of sitting around at beer breweries for 12-24 hours waiting to get loaded were not fond ones. I won't haul that #### for any rate at all but I'm happy to drink it and glad there are drivers who will haul it.

 

Beer loads do suck. Been to Miller/Coors in Irwindale many times and had to sit for hours, sometimes a day or two for that previous company I spoke of. The company line was always the same for having to sit, "quality control issues."

Things like the labels won't stick to the bottles, the production line is down, etc, etc. Which does happen, of course the lease ops were NEVER paid one penny for detention though. The company brass didn't want to upset the apple-cart, you know what I mean?