Please Explain This To Me

So some holds you at gun point for a day , that ok ?

 

That sounds like a brutal experience. But i ask you, doesnt everyone on planet earth who drives to work runs that risk? I was driving to work going 60 MPH West and the other side of the HIghway is running East. A woman texting hit the guard rail and sent a 4x4 through my windshield over my left (yes left) shoulder across my chest. Could have gone right through the back of my head. Everyone who drives runs those risks. I wasnt saying every haul is a road trip, I was using the same weak sarcasm as the guy before me to prove a point. Driving that much would be tough and I would go nuts not being able to bounce around. But i drive over 2.5 hrs round trip every day for work, in MN! try driving every single day in traffic in the snow! So, the driving is dangerous excuse just falls short with me I guess.

 

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If the shipper has asked for you to find a truck to load say 44,000 of produce .. I have to assume you give him a rate accordingly ... If he asks for a truck to load 22,000 of produce ... I assume you give him a rate accordingly ... You and I then agree on the information we are given by the shipper. When I show up and he loads 44 but promised 22, it does not lie with you, it is the shippers problem, and it should not be you that has to cater to him. This is where you call him and say "what is the deal, the truck has every right to be asking for more coin here, seeing as I promised him what you told me he is expecting to get loaded, and now you (shipper) are changing the game." It is just impossible for it to work in the reverse. When he promises 44 and loads 22, he still pays the price as if he loaded 44. That does not entitle you to a larger cut of the pie. All it does is slightly lowers the carrier's expense to move the load.

 

I'd be in the garbage cans for sure, or intensive care.

 

and that can happen to any average Joe on his way to our from the office. or some co worker can go postal and show up at the office with a loaded ak47. life has risks. furthermore, not every driver reacts as calmly as your husband to these things, the majority of truck drivers are far from cool calm professionals.

 

LOL I like getting into how the other half thinks. Helps me stay cool in situations where I would have blown up before. It is good to get the info i have gathered not only on this thread. Yeah sometimes we go at it, but thats part of the debate.

 

The driving to and from work argument holds no water whatsoever. Truck drivers also commute to their trucks/yard/whatever.

 

What are you talking about? Make sense before you post please.

 

Yes. We get to see it more often than once in a while since we cover about 5 times the miles that an average commuter does. Takes it from something that is a scary, random event to something you hope doesn't happen on this trip.

Also, never underestimate the talent of your fellow Minnesotans. At least it snows often enough that the ones that don't know what to do in it are already dead. Come down south during our next ice storm and witness the bald tire and water for antifreeze miracles that abound.