Question for you all, hauling onions, and rate change.

always weigh your loaded truck in route so you know exactly what you can take next time.

 

Learn your way around the scales

 

it’s like being paid by ton/bushel/hundred weight on hopper.
25ton X 100 $2500 22 ton X 100 $2200.
you haul less, you make less, it’s fair.

 

I understand, A couple drivers were doing produce, they knew exactly how much they could take after the first load because they got a weigh ticket. The shipper was showing 1500lbs more on their scale than they actually had so they increased the amount by 1200 to be safe and got more for hauling it.

 

https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/fvwtrk.pdf

Onions to Philly was paying $7800 on the low end of the average. The link is updated every week and might give you a better idea of what you could be getting when hauling produce. $2.30-2.40 a mile on that lane is not a very good rate, especially if you're running a team truck. It's not wrong that they're reducing the rate based on the number of bags delivered. What's wrong is the rate that they're offering is already so low, so cutting it more is like adding salt to the wound.

 

trying to look at it from all sides.

The onion side may have felt let down as they could only get 17 skids on over 18 also. That's a loss to them also and if they end up with less than a full load of randoms because they didn't fit, that's a pain to shift.

Scales could be out a little, but they probably all are. A bag of onions weight is never exact as onions differ. Maybe the truck is heaver than expected from their point of view.

I don't deal with brokers but sounds like they will always be on the scabby side over fairer. Might just be how it all work unfortunately. I take the same volume of water to the same place, but they use a flow metre to scale it which always seems to favour them. The small shorting probably makes the bean counters feel good about themselves as they gained $10 a load, but the regular work from my perspective is easy and appreciated.

I reckon if you got paid quickly, and it reflects pretty much what you were happy with from start though a little short, reckon that's a win.

 

You went cheap on those onions if you went to east coast. 3 a mile to upstate NY. Next time you’ll do better. Apples in Wenatchee and frozen in tri cities. You were in a decent spot this time of year. I would go back. Read ratecon carefully. Mine always stated cut weight can change rate. Remember the rates from dat are from guys that factor. So, you know the real rates are higher.