Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Everybody, let's all calm down. No need for anger

 

Man I've been trucking for over 25 years and I've got more than 2 million safe miles behind me. I've got a good attitude and always have no matter what hurdles I faced but I'm not drinking cool aid from anywhere. Do you seriously think I can't judge a good company from bad? Come on brother....

 

Communicate. It's a foreign concept with a lot antisocial drivers who think everyone can read their mind. If there's a curfew everybody involved in a move like this knows it or they should know it. You should ask them beforehand to see if they know their ### from a hole in the ground or not. Pick up the phone and talk to somebody to make a reasonable appointment time so the curfew all of a sudden aint an issue. The devil is always in the details.

 

Why is it every time I cover something different, the return load I have set up always cancels

which board should I use dat or TS? I’ll have to reactivate for the month

 

You think I don't call people? I run my show better than 99% of guys out here and I'd put my #### up against anybody at anytime. I'm one of those people that makes #### happen rain snow sleet hail.. That's the reputation I build every single place I go. Ask anybody Ive ever worked with out here. Whether I run for myself or someone else I bring the same attitude... besides, curfews aren't just in 1 place. They exist in every butt #### metro area in the country...maybe go run open deck for a couple days before u start thinking u know how to do anything we do.. It is not the only problem that split sleepers would help, I simply listed it as a way to show how more flexibility in logs would help a situation...somehow that went way over your head but I'm the dumb ### right ?

 

Both suck in my eyes. With that said I had more luck with DAT. I like the TS set up better but doesn't mean anything if you can't get any decent loads from either one. I canceled them last year since I only used them for rate lanes for the most part.

 

Ended up finding a truck load for one of the LTL customers, doesn’t pick up until Thursday to deliver Monday though due yo the 4th, so reload a shuttle back to the dock and reload my usual north bound. I was trying to be home for some of the weekend but oh well, I now remember why I said I wasn’t going west anymore unless I went all the way to the coast, will wind up being the same time out now for less money

 

Don’t feel bad, I had two weeks vacation planned starting the 3rd..I’m en route to Kent, WA now

Trying to tell myself that another Independence Day in the truck won’t be too bad..probably need a bottle of tequila for that happen, haha

 

Whow, sounds like what happened to me last week. I'm glad I found something back to the East home. I figured this week would be a mess with the Spot market however rates seems to be up on some good loads. Trust me, things will be better in the next couple weeks.

 

Rates always increase slightly during holidays.