Indian River

On recap you're on an 8 day cycle so yes 8.75 is correct so in a perfect world you would run 8hr45m every day and never have to do a reset. Obviously that's not realistic so yeah you gotta just go with the flow. I say when you have miles then you should just use your hours even if you get to your destination early. Early deliveries are possible at a lot of places, especially when it's drop and hook. You might sit for a day after a delivery in some parts of the country so if you take your time getting there running 8.75hrs a day then you're just holding yourself back. I think a "hybrid" system where you use your hours when you have them is best at Indian River. I tried running recap exclusively when I started here and it kinda worked but there were times where I was leaving hours on the table because of time between loads. Honestly one of my biggest gripes about this company is time between loads. It's not always bad, but I almost never deliver a load and pick up another one right away the same day. But that's only my experience, YMMV.

 

Hard to narrow down a percentage on day or night deliveries. Of course the drop and hook customers are 24/7, show up whenever you show up provided you are not later than the delivery date.

We have one regular customer in Florida that is a live unload and it is always at night. Unloader doesn't even get in until 9pm. No point trying to show up early during the day as you will just sit until night. There is another in Miami with strict morning appointments starting at 6am.

I will run recap when I need to, but if I can, I would rather reset every week. They know that and will accommodate me if they can. Resetting doesn't always work in my favor as far as maximizing income for the week, but I like knowing I have a full clock to run 11hrs a day and deliver loads early whenever possible.

Intentionally cutting my day short at 8hrs or whatever has never been beneficial in my opinion. If a slow day due to unloading etc occurs I just roll with it. It just means I reset with 15+ hours left on my 70. I'm ok with that.

 

We had a slump for a bit but I think it had to do more with a restructure of the dispatch system past few weeks I have been running hard and seems more efficient may just be the time of the year but I am happy

 

True, one thing that's good about this company is they have a lot of loads, we have so much loads that we deliver one load PER day. We haul mostly gypsum products, so sheetrock, Cypress is the Biggest Sheetrock hauler in the Southeast, plus after the hurricanes, rebuilding is on the way, so you know companies are gonna need sheetrocks, so there's that. As for the loads, they have them, it's just the type of loads that gets me sometimes, if you're delivering a load per day, you know the biggest load you're gonna get is 500 miles, the miles does add up and I'm making decent money here, averaging $1300 take home pay. It's just, I like the long haul loads more than these short ones, you know, I can plan out my trip better with them. I used to stress out about having to do 8hr per day to not do a 34, now I know it's normal and not something you can avoid every week, I feel much better now lol.

 

Yeah, I will just run my clock and if can run recap, I'll do it, if not then, I'll do a 34.

 

It's good to know that most of load have a morning delivery time, I don't like driving at night lol.

 

Dude, if you’re banking $1300 a week stay where you’re at, OTR is not that great anyway.

 

So you're saying even if I'm driving, once the clock hit 12:00 AM I will automatically get my hours back while driving, I don't need to stop before then?