On average what percent of your day is spent waiting and a shipper-receiver?

I have a very routine schedule I never wait for a dispatch my next load is there before my drop but I still wait I wait for 4 wheelers who crash and have traffic backed up for 10 miles i wait for forklift operators at mills and ports to finish their lunch I wait for russians and Punjabis who park in the fuel lane and go in and have lunch 3 days ago i.waited at les swab for 2 hours today I waited 3 hours at cummins in renton part of what we do is practice patients everyday all day.

 

If you don't want to wait look into flatbed. I'm in training right now and the longest we've had to wait including chain/tarp time has been about 3 hours. That's with one exception where we made it to the shipper after they closed and had to wait till morning to load.

 

The more the merrier i get paid by the hour I love it when they hold me up especially after 40 $$$

 

Smart all trucking should have to go hourly.

 

For the most part that is true. Flatbedding I'm usually in and out fairly quickly. 2 weeks ago I picked up a steel flatbed load going to Disney's Animal Kingdom for their new Avatar theme area. They had to check off each individual piece of steel which had its own serial number. Took 3 guys 12 hours to get me loaded one piece at a time.

I didn't mind so much as they were steady working on it. The shippers that ignore you for hours and you have no clue when you're getting loaded / unloaded is what gets under my skin.

 

you are young. i am old. running to the bathroom, squeezing cheeks is what happens as some of us age. sometimes we make it....sometimes...we wish we had taken our clean unda-wear along for the squeeze run....

 

I pick up steel loads at nucor steEl these huge magnets come flying overhead and they have me half loaded before I get out of the truck.

 

For a drop and hook load I'm usually in and out in under 30 minutes. Considering intermodal is majority drop and hook it's about 2 hours a day if you 4 drop and hook loads on you. Live Load/Unload is usually about 2 hours or less. All though ES3 in York PA you'll be there for hours if you have a live unload.

 

This is assuming the intermodal guy disregards all the flats, bad tires, and missing lights and mudflaps, and trucks on like he didn't have any better sense. Yes, the mega dry vans make the list, but the intermodal chassis' have to take the prize.

 

We hit the dock and they are in the trailer before we can sign in. Some guys complain of an hour wait, but thats only one pickup. Anytime we wait 15 mins past our pickup time we get paid.
We sit in traffic, we get paid. We wait on another driver to show, we get paid.
This is my first trucking job so im kinda spoiled