Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

Agree with this 100 percent.
Once you know your keeping the same trailer,
You treat it just like your truck.
Everything's kept in tip top shape.

 

It varies from customer to customer and what the freight contact says. Some is 2 hours free, and x dollars per hour after that. Some it's 4 hours free. And some its nothing, plan to be there all day, if you don't like it don't take the load. There is almost always a note in the comments of the load that tell you what the detention is with that customer. And you get it when they get it, not the day you send the pod in when they pay you for the load. It usually takes just over a month and i got to call the pay department to find out what the extra money is for.

My personal policy on detention is i don't normally stress it. But it really depends on the customer. A good paying customer with regular steady freight gets a lot of leeway. If I'm at a job site and they are busting their ### to get me unloaded and it runs over a few minutes I'm not making a fuss over it and alienating a customer for 50 bucks in demmurrage charge. That crane is costing them a fortune, they are no more happy about having to keep him longer than i am about being held up longer. They don't charge me for getting held up a little on my way to the job site, I won't charge them for holding me up a little extra.

For example, there is a big construction outfit in tampa that showgirls in foundation work. Lots of drilling equipment and I'd guess 20 loads per week on average. Good paying loads where i make 500 bucks to run across town. Not the best but good fill ins between my gravy loads. If the fork lift is late getting there obviously they can't unload me. I could charge them for that extra hour I'm waiting, but that nickel and dime charge leads them to consider other carriers. And the only thing it cost me is im home at 3 pm instead of 2 pm. But if it turns into keeping the stuff on till the next morning, we are billing for a layover. Good customers don't argue reasonable charges, but no one likes being nicked and dimed with 50 bucks here and there on 20 loads a week.

 

@spyder7723 I'm the same way. With tankers customers know our dmrg policies, but if it's a good customer I'll give 30 mins extra. But if customer is being a jerk, well I'm writing it up and getting paid. (It doesn't happen very often though)

 

I don't miss the empty hunt at all. Love having the same trailer since December 27 th.

Be Safe Out There


Captain Dave

 

But you would learn who those shippers and recievers are, and only take their loads when the rate makes up for the burn you know you will get.

 

He only wants point, click, drop, hook and new trailers.