JB O/O under own Authority?

So... I'm curious as to how they've treated you over the holiday weekend @danny23tx ?

 

Here's the numbers for 6 days... probably 5.99 days more than I should have gave them.

1638 loaded
640 d/h

That's 39% deadhead... not the 12-15% smoke that was blown up my ###.

So let's use the different pay scales they have.



1) $3485.34
2) $2948.40 (the option I chose which was really $1.80)
3) $3184.22

Not sure what the percentages would be. Being that they lied about everything else, I don't think they would be very truthful about what the loads paid.

Now let's talk about how a spring ride trailer will beat the ever living #### out of your truck. I have no doubt that if I were to continue to drag their ####ty boxes around, my truck would be rattled to death as if I put it to work hauling frac sand on lease roads. After a trip down US-69 and US-75 through Oklahoma and Texas today, half the #### in my cabinets was laying on the floor. I can set a cup of coffee on the table and drive down the road with my air ride reefer in tow. Not with JB's good ol' hardtails.

All in all, I should have just stayed home. I paid them to haul their #### this week... but it's like gambling, you think to yourself, maybe next time I pull the handle, it will pay out.

 

So the $1.53 option was best.....:-/

 

I have no doubt that the deadhead would have been cut significantly if I'd have chosen another option.

One other thing I forgot to mention is HOS. Every day was an exercise in completely burning up my 11 and 14... 39% of my driving hours wasted on non-paid miles.

So now I'm sitting on this load that was supposed to drop anytime today. Of course, there is no one at the receiver and the gate is locked. I'm going to sit on it tonight and get a good night's sleep. Then if they don't figure out what to do, I'll drop it at their terminal nearby and eat the $693 it was supposed to pay. It'll cost me about $175 to bobtail home from here.

 

And you’re done either way.....

 

Yep, the ice should be melted and drained out of the walls in my reefer. I've been having my wife go out and let it run at 60° every day just long enough to dry the air in the box.

It never sat long enough after I got a hole in the roof repaired last year. The insulation was a solid block of ice.

 

I dropped the loaded trailer at the Dallas yard on Sunday. Haven't heard squat from them since. Lol.