I felt like I was hauling groceries again today.

That sucks! Ive been stuck at some big places for a few hours on the flatbed side. Sat 14 hours AFTER DDT at Tyson while on the reefer side though.

 

I would have left. Had that happen once, sat for an hour nobody came went inside and was told in a meeting, i told the girl tell them i'am leaving walked out to the truck and before i got in a guy with a forklift showed up. Had me loaded in half an hour. Its amazing some of the bs they try and do.

 

Sounds like it all worked out for you. Glad to hear it !!!

 

This load sounds very similiar to a load I picked up out of there, took forever to get. It wouldnt happen to be going to a certain military base out west somewhere would it?

 

We used to leave if they tried to make us sit that long. But we didn't get detention and the brokers we had sided with us and just gave us something else if they had it. I don't see it as a problem as long as my time is payed for. If I had an agent like that, it wouldn't bother me to sit every once in a while even if I wasn't payed for it, though.

 

Exactly, sometimes you have to lend a hand to get ahead in this game. I've sat a few times at a job site, and I've even gone above and beyond on a few loads.

Like that old M37 I hauled out of WY. The guy that bought it called a rollback truck in to load it onto my flatbed but the rollback was a little Hino truck and there was about a 2.5' height difference. So I busted out my tools and got the thing running and drove it 2 blocks away to a cement plant that I had seen that had a loading dock on my way in. Loaded it up and off I went.....even got the wrecker guy to refund the buyers $100 he had charged him, which the buyer told me to keep when I got to the delivery

 

2.5 feet? That guy had no idea how to run a flatbed. I'd have gotten it leveled and on there no problem. With that tiedown anywhere system on your trailer, it'd make it even easier.