We don't wait for sets. We make them ourselves. We may not unload the trailers, but we do far more yard work than you'd expect.
Equipment is always a problem. We have to ask terminal staff how they are doing on empties before we take them, that sort of thing. But we make it work.
The terminal that I go to has done something smart. They had a conversation with the business across the way, and we are allowed to use their lot for our trailers. That has effectively doubled the size of the terminal.
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Same at ground. You go in to a terminal you gotta break it. We usually keep same dolly until it needs service. We all run same turn every night. Most time if no loads are ready they will send you with empties.
Rumor is ground is doing away with the belly pups and doing more 53ft and the pups going be straight rail for the p@d customers.
If they don't have empties we just take 1. I start 5pm run a p&d. Back at 6pm. Sit there till 10pm usually and I run Evansville to Lebanon TN a last cut. They just built a new sort only facility. I get there around 1am. Sit till 3am. Back evansville by 6am.
Now if I only got paid like you guys do. Fedex making out like a bandit using contractors but it hurts them as well. Finding quality and qualified guys is hard. Same with package car drivers. I hear them guys talking 750 bucks a week GROSS.
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Yeah he loves them. They seem to have their #### together too. They don't over hire. They stay pretty steady. I told him maybe after holidays. But I just don't wanna work that hard. I just need to clear 600 week now starting January.
I had Casey's call me to haul fuel. 80k. Dayton is an option. Possibly pretending to be fedex is not bad for the guy I'm running for. I can clear 1200 pretty easily.
The hospital going to pay for her last part of school and her pay will go up even more.
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