Covenant Solutions Expedite Div.

I wasn't trying to incinuate a pissing match or insult anyone. Just saying Bill knows what's going on in today's markets.

 

Yes until I too old or broken down to throw them.

 

Lighten up a little. That "part of the herd" comment I made was not directed at any one in particular. Bill does know what markets are hot and what aren't. His trucks are out there every day and posted or their availability sent out a few times daily over email lists. The phones blow up in hot markets and crickets chirp in slow ones. I was in one yesterday that was so busy they actually called to say they were taking my truck posting down because they couldn't handle 51 calls a minute asking for the truck lol.

Now the flip side of that is just because Bill thinks it's not a great lane doesn't mean that you couldn't make a go of it and prove him wrong. I do not ever venture onto that lane but in general I do agree with you. It does strike me as a good spot to hammer some over the top outbound rates going north into Jersey, NY, etc or to go down south into Florida as well. I would suggest you have produce vents on your van if planning on working Florida though.

F2F is different animal from Covenant Expedite Solutions. There are similarities but the biggest difference will be that if you want to be entirely on your own booking freight and figuring out lanes F2F would be the right choice. CES would be better if you're content to let the office deal with those headaches but from the sounds of things it seems they do seek driver input on some stuff. But when being dispatched one has to always understand what dispatch is up against. If you were at CES making them run you on the 95 corridor and it wasn't working out so great, then probably the only way to either figure it out or learn that it sucks would be to self dispatch yourself and walk in their shoes.

 

ran my last load with my current company today. Back at home and packing up to head to Chattanooga on Sunday! Can't wait!

 

I had one of those fun Friday's. The kind where if it could go wrong it did. Started at midnight the end of fun Thursday. After an 8hr delay at the shipper on my way to GA at last, 440 miles to go, only 3 hours to spare. Had booked a follow up SC reload from my favorite broker that I've worked with the longest of any. She was grateful, was the last load of her week to cover, it had been a pain, and Saturday her birthday, she wouldn't have to worry if it got delivered. It was scheduled for 14:00 pick. If I showed up at 14:01 to pick it they were union and they'd say sorry time to go home you missed the cut off. No problem.

My GA delivery was only 70 miles from it. It delivered to a DC at 11am. Would probably be tight but I could do it. Had been in contact with broker on that load telling him my sense of urgency to get offloaded, was there any way they could talk with receiver and try to get it "expedited". Had already saved them on several hot GM loads in the days before. He said they'd take care of me not to worry. Ok, and they did. But of course it didn't help. Long story short I made the SC reload but didn't get there til 15:40 they were not happy to see me lol. But the receiver intervened and made them. I was mad I'd let my favorite broker down. I did everything not to. She knew what was going down and I kept her informed all day. Somehow we managed, I made the SC pick, and then passed out from a general lack of sleep. Life is good lol.

 

The funnest part was actually about 5 minutes before arrival @GA consignee. The high pressure a/c line burst. I smelled something but heard nothing. I discovered it under the hood while they unloaded my truck (slowly lol) normally squeaky clean engine had oil sprayed all over it. The truck, knowing what a great week we'd had, decided to take it's piece of the pie. It had been Christmas since I'd bought it anything- 8 shoes - and so it went. On the bright side at least it ain't hot down south just yet and in a couple of hours I'll be empty high tailing it to the house.

 

As pound puppy said, it will test your patience. I was warned but not totally prepared mentally. Backing test is easy and there is more paperwork than you will ever wish to see again. I signed twice as much to get this job than buy my house lol. Good people behind you once your moving. I had a rough day yesterday and I dropped the ball more than once but instead of getting upset, Bill and the team had my back. I've got a good crew behind me. Picked up a load in Mendon, GA last night and I'm flying home tonight to see the wife and baby on my dime, delivering monday at 07:00 and still averaging better than I was doing on my own. All in all, rates are high, bs is minimal, and I am happy.

 

What kind of fuel discounts are you guys getting off the pump price?