Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

I know what you mean, I go to work in the morning and then in the afternoon do my lawn business. Today I got up to work at 2:15am got out of work at 12:30pm and then spent the rest of the afternoon building a pea gravel patio for a customer, who's lawn I have to do some work to tomorrow, needs a lot of work.

I originally had 1 grass cutting account now I have 5 and I don't just cut the grass I run the edger and weed wack and sweep away debris and stuff. Heck it's almost midnight and I'm still up because I had to get the laundry going.

The only difference is I live alone, but I don't think if I had a family I could work like this.

 

Were kind of sort of starting to gain a little bit of tonnage back, but it's touch and go. We were closed on Wednesdays for almost all summer. Lot of low pay checks.

 

Common sense has no place in modern trucking. Lol

 

We saw a major slow down and actually went to a 4 day work week. Considering 2/3 of our biz is restaurant and schools.

If you were a company heavy into pizza shops which we are not, not really not by comparison to others, then you would have still seen some action, but the system did go down.

We’re back to 5 days now have been for a while, but tonnage is still a little down. However I have noticed it’s starting to creep up a little bit, but still not where it was.

 

We are all hands on deck at the moment. There was no summer slow-down for us.

 

Same here.
We lost work with one of our other divisions and have been able to move a couple of those people over to our LTL side. Which is GREAT for them.
We have increased work from one of our partner carriers who decided to move their terminal and lost a couple driver to retirement and other reasons. So they gave us one of their outlying territories that we already cover for our own customers. It was a big win for everyone all around.

We didn't have much slow down this year at all. We did lose a couple areas that we HAD been covering for another partner carrier. Who took that work back, but it didn't cause any slow down for us freight wise.

Keep in mind that we are EXTREMELY small. We only run about 18 trucks dayside and about 9 night time auto parts guys. So, the vast majority of our freight is partner work.

 

Yeah, it has been a wild year for sure.

I also work for a small company. I think our current number of employees is around 528,000. Lol