Heavy equitpment or machinery only ??

More like Reese's Peanutbutter Cup

 

In my opinion, it is always important to look at the big picture. If you are a contractor, and I offer you a standard flatbed load that pays $4/mi but requires a 4' tarp, you will still take the load. If you are a company driver, and averaging .50/mi, you will probably do some tarping from time to time even if you aren't paid for it. I don't make SHC money every time I send one of my trucks out. But if I refused to send them out of town unless I had a high dollar round lined up, I wouldn't make much money either. You have to be willing to take the good with the bad or you never get the great.

 

You are correct Mr. Flop Flip did'nt like getting advice from other open deck drivers and decided to use 4 letter words to communicate.

 

I agree with cpape. Some times we do have to suck it up at times.
This week being a goofy week for me as I need to be in MSP/STP Monday morning.
Gotta put the wife on a plane going home.
Had some really cheap ld. offers. Turned them down.
Found a ld. going to western SD. Not the best paying ld. but the broker is willing to let me delay a day del. as I told him what I needed to do.
Was up front with them, and still getting a fair rate..
CPAPE, got any 4.00 mile freight with good tarp pay I'll be there.. No problem

 

UHH... Ehem.
What about a guy who is paid hourly for local heavy haul?
Home nearly every night.
Paid vacation.
Good bennies.

I haven't slept in a truck in two years. Why live in a truck for half the money?

 

It really depends on each agents relationship and billing with a customer. I have one guy who tacks on $150 for ANY tarp job. Others just quote the customer a rate and then break out the tarp charges from the LS billing so I get 100% of it. But the difference between them paying $150 to me or putting it into the linehaul is $43.50 out of my pocket..... make sense?

And even with tarp pay, I still despise it unless it's an easy and simple job like the one I got on now or those steel plate loads I hauled for you. It's the goofy machinery and oddball one's that drive ya cray. But for $4 mile to the truck, I'll find a way to tarp it

 

Had someone tell me the same thing about snap binders. Until they start buying my gear for me, I will use them. I am too old to have someone hold my hand.

 

I want to strictly haul roll on equipment......I want to carry 6 chains no straps no tarps I don't want to go to any steel mills any ports I want to drop and hook And I want paid top dollar for my services.......why don't you come back from fantasy land

 

Ill do all the miserable work, and go to the crappy places but i want 85k a year...

 

You know I've never been anywhere that I absolutely will not go back to, I can't say that I've experienced misery anywhere I've ever been, my decisions are made by business sense not personal preference, maybe I'm weird, but I have a very hard time telling someone "no" especially when they're calling me specifically to do a particular load someone else doesn't want to do, I hate the SE but one particular customer runs 50% of their freight there, I can't tell them no because I don't like it, or if they call and say "When you get empty around Cleveland can you bring some steel back, it has to be Tarped? And I'll unload and reload you in the same spot, ill let you know in the morning where you're going. I can't tell them "no" it's customer service.....I can't haggle every detail, nobody will want to use me being a 1 man crew.....am I right in this thinking here? Or am I stupid?