CR England Busch Account

Beer loads will generally be heavy (at....or approx 44k lbs).

You will need to scale the load (& adjust trailer tandem locations, as req'd) BEFORE LEAVING YOUR PICK-UP LOCATION.

In some cases -- I have seen where beer warehouses can't load the trailer for it to properly scale out.

My point?

Talk to drivers who have already been on that acct for at least 3-4 months -- before taking that job.

-- L

 

The recruiter told you 58 cpm, but for how many miles weekly? That's the question. Many of those runs are oftentimes regional, so you may do good to get 2100 to 2200 miles weekly. You'll need to ask the recruiter about incentive pay, accessory pay, or hourly pay, as well as how many miles weekly. At the very least they should be able to answer your question about drop and hook pay.

 

Beer loads sucked ### for me at prime. Here is how 90% of beer loads would go:

Dispatch: hey gotta beer load buddy pal friendo, 1500 miles! Good run, loads ready @ cst

Get to beer place a day or two later at the appt tine, trailer isn't loaded. Wait around for a day and they refuse to sign your detention stamp. Day with no pay.

Then you get the load and its 50k ####ing pounds. Over gross and over axle. Have to circle back to get the load reworked. The miserable shipping department say it was planned for a lightweight truck. Not that a lightweight truck would scale out anyways with that. Then you spend another day or two waiting for an opening to get the load reworked. Maybe it scales out at that point.

Then you run 11 hours and turn on your 10 to try and make appt times. Turns out dispatch changes the load details because you couldn't get out of the beer plant so magically the load now has 9 deliveries over the course of 12 ####ing days. Drive 1000 miles in two days and then deliver 1-2 pallets at a time, 50 miles apart between stops, once a day for the next week. 2 weeks of being in the truck on one god #### load that ends up being maybe 1500 miles between the two weeks.

There are two loads that would boil my blood at prime. ####ing tyson chicken loads and dumb ####ing beer loads. I doubt most megas do that ######## wannabe ltl with beer loads but god it was a complete waste of time. If you got 2-3 beer loads back to back you'd out for a full month and maybe take home 1500 dollars for the whole month if you're lucky.

 

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I clicked on this because I thought it said bush account then realized it was busch account. Never mind.