How did driver find loads before the internet????

Everything thats been said is sure nuff the way it was, and there was also a broker book you could buy at the truck stops with supposedly every broker in the U.S. of course if they didn't know you they treated you like the plague, unless they were desperate, or the ones that wouldn't pay.(Always draw all the advance you could, even if you didn't need it) Most used the same brokers whenever possible, and you got to be pretty good friends, use to borrow the brokers car to go eat, shop or whatever. Ah the good old days.

 

I was told by an ole timer who trained me that back in the day, when you pulled into a truck truck brokers would run up to your truck & ask you where do you want to go. they had loads up the wazoo.

 

The streets used to be paved with gold too.

 

#### I missed that era? And to think I could have been rich like the rest of you guys!

 

Yeah and to think you could afford the chrome on a mexican convoy!

 

No gold, but the streets were lined with "lumpers" leading into grocery warehouses, who would jump on your truck, hollar at you, and underbid each other, all trying to get you to let them unload your truck. When you picked out one that looked like he wouldn't rob you, and agreed to a decent price, he would ride with you into the warehouse to unload your truck. After they were through, you paid them, and drove them back to their place on the street.

 

Man, that would have been nice.

 

Most of these guys worked very hard, and very fast. Once you hit the door, and if your lumper knew who to talk to that wouldn't take long either, you were soon out of there. Best part was if you had 40 lumpers and just a few trucks, the prices were quite negotiable.

 

im kind of surpised that isnt the situation in this economy, lots of folks looking for work

Oh wait, that is right, the lumpers unionized... my bad.

 

Who's looking for work? Obama is supporting them.