cre my 2 cents

Wow!!! .90mi to start with which isn't much, then YOU have to pay them .14mi for their office personnel! What a joke! That leaves .76 mi to pay for trk & maintenance. What are they going to do next? Charge for trailer then maybe charge for the use of their properties?

 

You're right, it isn't great, but its a lot better than the measily credit you give it.

I don't know why I'm bothering to ask this question again since I've asked it before and never really got a straight-forward answer but where else am I gonna go to make more with the little experience I have AND with the economy and fuel prices in the current state they are in?

Think about that and get back to me.

How is it a joke? You hire somebody to work on your car..... they ain't gonna do it for free.

The truck and maintenance don't cost the income of 76 cpm!! Only 7 com goes to the maintenance fund.

By the way, if you woulda read my post a little more closely, you woulda seen that we aren't paying 14cpm for the variable mileage; its 11.

You really expect me to dignify a response to this obtuse remark?

 

I was not talking about you, I was talking about England! England wants everyone else to pay their cost for running a business! They seem to think that charging someone else extra for employees that England willingly hired for their office is ethical.

 

I'm not paying their cost to run their business, but I am paying for their services to keep me busy and to take care of the grunt work. I could be finding and booking my own loads. I could be calling the shippers and receivers myself when there's an issue with the load or the shipping numbers aren't right. I could be calling my own road service whenever I have a breakdown but you know what, I don't have to. I pay them to do it so all I have to do is drive the truck. Is it sinking in yet?

I don't know about ethical but if it helps, look at it this way; England is contracting their office personel to me for a fee.

 

Well are you allowed to turn anything down w/o repercussion and are you allowed to look at all of their available loads in the computer & choose which one you want to run???

 

We can, they frown on it though because for one, they have a lotof freight and two, they claim they can take away your deadhead on your next load unless you have legitimate reason but why would you? You get paid the same either way. Doesn't matter if its long loads, short loads, light or heavy, it all pays the same. the only difference is, loads with more deadhead means more miles that are paid at 80cpm but hey, deadhead yields killer fuel mileage.

 

So they essentially indirectly threaten you with withholding $$ from you. Basically forced dispatch. Let's get this straight, you have to pay them to use the truck and pay them to use the office people but at no time can u choose what u want to run?? What a joke!!!

 

So they essentially indirectly threaten you with withholding $$ from you. Basically forced dispatch. Let's get this straight, you have to pay them to use the truck and pay them to use the office people but at no time can u choose what u want to run?? What a joke!!!

 

You're in training to be a comedian right? This kind of crapola is only seen on Comedy Central!

NO, it means wasted fuel on non productive miles! Yeah it IS a killer!

ROFLMAOACGU!

 

I wouldn't go as far as saying they threaten anybody, they just said that turning down a load could result in lost deadhead pay if they felt there wasn't a good reason for refusing a load. I don't know this information for fact because we've never refused a load and quite frankly, I'm still confused as to why you have such a problem with not going where you wanna go instead of were they send you.

If there's somewhere in particular you wanna go, request it. If they don't get you there the next day, relax, they'll get you there when they can. It all depends on freight in the area, if you're in the right area at the right time and if not, depending on the relationship you have with your dm, he'll swap you out on a load that is going to the area you want.

Lastly, you'd be surprised at how many drivers refuse loads because its in an area they don't like or its too heavy and will kill their fuel mileage. Believe me, I've had to repower loads because of reasons like that. You may not have thought about it but refusing loads causes them extra headaches to find another truck so in a way, understand why they take your next load's deadhead pay away if you refuse loads for childish reasons.

I guess if that's what you wanna call it and if that's the way you wanna look at it then knock yerself out.

You got a long way to go before you're considered straight.

I don't pay them to use the truck. I make the payments on the truck. Geesh, don't you know anything about leasing? The lease on this truck is no different from leasing a car.

why is so hard for you to understand??

If you have a problem with this then go do the O/O thing were you make the rules.

No, arguing with people like you that can't be reasoned with and have to have the same questions answered over and over again is what the joke is.

No, your the only wannabe comedian I know of. I'm sure you laugh at all the nonsense you type thinkin its just soo funny. MUAHAHAHAHAHA........NOT!

Unless you can load from the same place you unloaded at, how is it wasted fuel?? You gotta get to your next customer somehow. What are you gonna do, push the truck to the next load? Try to use your belligerent and cantankerous attitude to have the load brought to you? For some reason I could actually see that happening.

One more note, they could be paying us 0cpm for empty miles.

One more tidbit of info about the killer mileage, the more deadhead I get to an extent almost makes up for losing 10cpm because I can get upwards of 10 miles a gallon pulling an empty trailer.