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The system is set up to make the RR owner op a little worker bee running miles mile miles. If that is your cup of tea then you will do well. They have all kinds of tools to help. T2T is the bread and butter, but you will see after a time your truck will show up on RR Agents computer screens and they will be calling you daily to check up on you, to see if they can help you find a load after you're empty at any given terminal. You can use this to your advantage, say you know you're arriving at whatever terminal Monday or Tuesday, knowing freight is the slowest outbound for T2T generally at any given terminal, I would recommend pre-calling the RR Agent to start looking for loads in that area. Figure out how many hours you project to have once you're empty and a reasonable distance circle around your truck to tell him/her to look for loads to keep you legal and customer happy.

In other news my truck was originally scheduled to go into the shop Friday morning, projected to be done Tuesday sometime. Well last night (Friday) they called me and told me to come pay the bill, the truck is completed lol. Meanwhile corporate RR is closed for the weekend so no way to transfer the insurance back from the rental truck back to my truck plus the terminal called for me to come pick up a loaded trailer 1st stop Billings MT final Portland OR. From there I will probably just deadhead home because I will have to be there at the weekend and not in the mood for any load screw-ups. Take a week or two off and head back to my truck in Detroit area. Would be a lot cheaper to take time off with my paid off truck rather than this $1000 a week monstrosity -- Freightliner with 10 speed-- I don't know how those fleet drivers do it lol.

 

I have temporarily misplaced the latest statement my tax people sent out which was for March 2015 showing year to date $1.42

As far as weekly average pay, I estimate 110,000 miles a year at 40 weeks a year so that works out to 2750 miles a week on average times $1.42 -- my IFTA statement for March showed 5 miles per gallon which we found out was from an bad exhaust manifold leak. The thing that saved me is the heavily discounted fuel by using the RR fuel card.

Still at home for a few more days and will be working my way back across the country with the rental truck to Detroit to get my truck out of the shop yard.

 

I have about 12 weeks off a year spread out randomly.

I sat four days down in Los Angeles waiting for outbound T2T. I had options from the 1st day to call agents to book loads but somehow got strung along to hang out. Usually what happens is they get a trailer only 80% full and will not dispatch it so you have to sit another 24 hours for the crew to come in that night to finish it.

What is your percentage over there?

 

I think RR does help on a case by case basis for breakdowns. I know mine went into the shop couple weeks back and I sent an email to my guy asking if they would help me if for some reason I didn't have enough cash to get my truck out of jail and if they rent trucks while mine was broke down, he responded yes to both my questions.