How’s the LTL sector doing where you’re at?

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  1. freebeertomorrow

    freebeertomorrow Heavy Load Member

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    idk about the other runs we have, but my meet/turn has been over 70k gross one or both ways since last wednesday. i pulled 37k both ways last night and 35 both ways the night before. far as i know, no one has been told to sit.

    i expect backlash of some sort. what, exactly, is unknown. i wouldn’t mind going down to 2-3 days a week for a few months...or being laid off altogether, whatever’s clever.
     
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    I am grossing 79500 right now. Managed to get 6200 miles.

    They did say freight is hit or miss just depends on area
     
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    I've had more hours this and the past two weeks than I've had in the past 6 months
     
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    I only worked 3 days this week. Once they shut all the schools and restaurants down that was it.
     
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    Last night the hub I run to was finished up about 2 hours early. My barn is staying steady so far.
     
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    They just got busy.
     
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    So i guess it's the grocery mofos who are really making out? With you guys, you deliver to a lot of restaurants and if they don't offer take-out, then they are completely shut down?

    So grocery stores are the most basic form of food supply and people would intrinsically flock to that rather than prepared food?
     
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    Managed to pickup 10 pallets: 3 different customers about 9000lbs.

    Our inbound was about 42,000lbs.

    Hours have been reduced about 1-1.5 hours per day.

    We are hanging on, miraculously
     
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    Mike2633 Road Train Member

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    Restaurants, Schools and Healthcare Facilities. We’re killing it at the health care facilities but the restaurants and schools are way way waaaaay down. Forget pick up it’s not working these places trying to do pick up are spinning there wheels for nothing. Our restaurant sales have dropped way down if I had to guess were probably down 90% in restaurant cases.


    Schools are waayyy down to probably 70-80% on schools.

    so 2/3 of our business has dried up.
     
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    correction:
    food 1 < LTL 22
     
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