questions for brokers & owners with regards to detention pay

I make $11/hr working as a firefighter/paramedic. Saving lives, sleepless nights, imminent danger... Stop whining about getting paid $50/hr RC!

 

lol, you didn't shell out $80,000-$120,000 bucks to become a ff/paramedic ! And you don't pay $700/month insurance, $2700/yr plates, etc.... That being said, find me a load to Key West with about 600 hours of detention built in, would ya ? heck, I'll even take $45/hour, let you keep $5, cuz I'm a generous fella !

 

Stop making so much #### sense! The only way I'll find you that type of load is if I get to ride shotgun. I need to get lost somewhere in the tropics for a little bit.

 

And brokers wonder why I won't haul to Kraft or want an extra $500 surcharge to even consider Supervalu in Hopkins. The only thing more worthy of pissin you off is lumper pay.

 

Funny thing with stupid valu in Hopkins,we bring 10-12 pallets of mushrooms to them every day. If we deliver as a stop it takes forever to get unloaded. If we take it to our DC in Minneapolis and then deliver with a straight truck we are in and out in less than 1/2 hour.

 

I am just hoping shippers will realize their inefficiencies and hopefully try to improve their operation rather than only giving their business to the very large carrier that can drop a trailer at their dock and charge them little if anything for having the trailer sitting there. Another strike for the independent.

 

So we aren't the only ones that have a nice time with Brian on dry side. Perishables seen to be a lot better.

And this is a union shop too.

 

Mushrooms go to perishable,never had trucks on the dry side. Super valu here in town we just drop the trailer and pick it up later.

 

this strategy has worked best for me..