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Quit calling me with guesses!!

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by Mattflat362, Feb 22, 2018.

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  1. Feb 27, 2018 #31
    aussiejosh

    aussiejosh Road Train Member

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    Sounds like a bad phone line ha ha. :D
     
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  3. Oct 31, 2018 #32
    Mattflat362

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    Lately, if I have to wonder if you are even calling me from the U.S. and I can't understand you .......click.

    Sorry man I am a bad American I guess.
     
    Mattflat362, Oct 31, 2018
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  4. Oct 31, 2018 #33
    REO6205

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    One of my favorites is delivering to farms or ranches. The customer meets you out on the highway and says "You might want to ride down there with me first and look it over. The last guy had a little trouble."
     
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  5. Oct 31, 2018 #34
    Espressolane

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    Nothing like getting loaded, then calling the receiver and having them tell you “ I’ll meet you at X, then I can take you to see where it’s going”
     
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  7. Oct 31, 2018 #35
    REO6205

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    Yeah, or he says "We've never had a truck this big in here before".
    You just know it's going to be an interesting day.
    I'm always glad when they have you look at it first though. It might save you from a big wrecker bill later on.
    We had one ranch where we delivered diesel. Way out in the middle of nowhere. We use truck and trailers for our fuel work and this is one of the reasons why.. We'd have to drop the trailer out on the main road, drive twenty miles on dirt and gravel around switchbacks and home-made bridges to the ranch itself. There were two places where you crossed through creeks with the water half way up the tires. You would never get a semi tanker in there. Well, not all the way at least.
    We'd pump the truck off, go back out to the highway, pump the trailer into the truck, drive back, unload, and head out. The only good thing was that we were always there at lunch time and they fed the driver.
    They only took two loads a year and it paid well but it tied the truck up all day.


    EDIT...Sorry guys, I forgot this was the flatbed forum and I got to yakking about tankers. I'll give myself some demerits. :rolleyes:
     
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  8. Oct 31, 2018 #36
    Espressolane

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    Kind of sounds like this high dollar horse ranch that we delivered to. Meet out at the bottom of the hill, hook a track machine to the front of the truck, then a loader in back to push. When you get to the top, they put the track machine in back and lower you down the other side. When you get to the bottom, drive over to the barns, untie the load, pack a shower bag, go get cleaned up for lunch. Be hungry. Then go back the way you got in.
     
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  9. Nov 1, 2018 #37
    kranky1

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    What’s a broker?
     
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  10. Nov 1, 2018 #38
    MACK E-6

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    That’s another word for “pain in the ###”.
     
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  11. Nov 1, 2018 #39
    kranky1

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    I have a few different words for them. I have a bit of a ‘tude toward those people. I haven’t decided yet who are the biggest problem in this industry. The megas, or the freight pimps. We own, licence and insure trucks. We employ truck drivers. In my mind if you plan on invoicing people for transportation services, you should be able to say the same thing. We haul third party freight sometimes, but I’ll only deal with originating carriers. After the load has been bounced thru 2 or 3 fax machines and all the money is gone I want no part of it. I have a lifelong investment in this industry in both time and money, so I’m not a big fan of someone just sucking money out of it at as little cost to themselves as possible.
     
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  12. Nov 1, 2018 #40
    PoleCrusher

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    The biggest problem in this industry is drivers and o/o that work cheap. You can't blame shippers and brokers for going for the best deal for them.
     
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