Owner Operators Closing Operations Next Year?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Beaver9, Dec 7, 2023.

  1. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    I was loading some crane counterweights the other day, and a pair from BC were there to load the crane. It blew my mind how unprepared and unknowledgable they appeared.

    I asked the next day about them the next day when I delivered

    The crane company finally had to call someone else to load it up the next day.

    Those guys were probably pullin vans till that week
     
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  2. Short Fuse EOD

    Short Fuse EOD Road Train Member

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    Still doing great hauling ice cream. My other hauls are shorter distances to keep rate higher. Make a lot more calls than ever… but we are still doing good.
     
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  3. Iamoverit

    Iamoverit Road Train Member

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    Put it all on ice and do something else until the busters go bankrupt.
     
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  4. Phoenix Heavy Haul

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    It’s sad when the shipper is happy you can speak English and are actually using chains to secure an excavator etc. It’s gotten pure stupid out here.
     
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    But that's never going to happen. Make it now or don't make it, I say.
     
  6. Iamoverit

    Iamoverit Road Train Member

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    One could make it, sure. But why run your assets into the ground for peanuts when a company job is more profitable or a side business can expand in the interim?
     
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  7. Last Call

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    Exactly what really pisses me off is when they back in next ya and come over and try to talk to ya while you trying to load your wagon asking 50 questions because they don’t have a clue about how things go. And the whole time you know their the reason the rate got cut .80 per mile.
     
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  8. DUNE-T

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  9. Last Call

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    I was being nice …I’am pretty sure the mods would show me to the door if I said how I really feel
     
  10. Last Call

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    It’s just as bad with what I in some of these guys been pulling a van or reefer.. they show up don’t know nothing except how to cut the rate
     
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