Roadrunner transportation from the start

Had some dealings with Jost fifth wheel No matter what the warranty says it is only as good as the company. In my opinion this company is not good the representative said sound like you bought a truck with a worn out fifth wheel that's kinda your problem. My reply was no I bought a truck with one of YOUR fifth wheels that was worn out in 300000 miles and you warranty them for 5 yrs 500,000 miles. Reply was, well maybe the previous owner took the trucks off road. I haven't seen May trucks pulling their reefers off road but who knows those crazy Ice cream manufacturers may be building plants in some remote place

 

Western Peterbilt in Seattle if your out this way and need work call them they have bent over backwards to help me out. Naturally everything about replacing a fifth wheel that could go wrong has gone wrong

 

Seattle has been the one I had to wait for a reload the most, although this last trip out of there, did a ten hour break and rolled out sealed and loaded, very efficient. I guess it is fate and destiny messing with me again lol because I joined a load board for $35 bucks a couple days prior to arriving in Seattle in anticipation of waiting for a reload which in the past has been up to 3 days in Seattle area. Have about 6 hours left on my 70 and looking at a little 200 mile run on the load board that would go nicely with the 3000 miles I have already for the week here in DFW.

I will agree though if someone is sitting, they are probably waiting for freight to a specific terminal or something. They always ask "where do you want to go?" Then I ask what they have outbound and decide from there.



john I'm real sorry about your truck breaking down so much,. I hope it can be resolved and you stay in the game, lots of opportunity here at RR.

 

Got a question on the rental on the Extra trailers ... Is the payment all inclusive or are you still responsible for maintenance?

 

There are now 2 options on trailers you can join a trailer pool for some amount of money(more than renting your own but not much more) with that there is no maintenance, your loads are drop and hook on the terminal to terminal. You can also rent your own and you're responsible for maintenance. Both have advantages and disadvantages.

 

Well a little update pulled 2 loads with no breakdown (Knock on Wood). I booked my own load out of cleveland to go home. So I was able to see how that process worked was pretty simple but if I would have needed fuel fuel it would have cost me 36 dollars for a 300 dollar advance, that is excessive in my opinion. I could have taken an advance from the broker same amount for 15 dollars but the company setup CH and will not let them advance any money. I am now home although I should be working needed to take care of somethings so here I am headed out Sun. for Atlanta Take care fellow travelers.

 

Speaking of the trailer pool fleet, I am considering getting a second truck and using the trailer pool. It would be perfect if I could use both for my tractors . I envision a scenario where I would be inbound to Dallas for example and drop my Xtra trailer and hook into a preloaded Pool trailer then my driver in 2nd truck is inbound to Dallas with his Pool trailer drops and hooks into my preloaded Xtra trailer and we chase each other around the country dropping and swapping Pool/Xtra . Just don't know if RR would go for that as they would have 2 Pool trailers out sometimes under 1 Pool weekly deduction. Otherwise if they require me to have 2 weekly deductions for Pool, I have to go back to the calculator and do some more math.

 

I agree, the advance fees for broker loads chew up all the fuel discounts at the majors. I know we can upload money from the cared to our bank but it would be cool if we could load the card from our bank and never take the advance and still score the fuel discounts. Not sure the cards are reverse 'loadable' though.

John hwat is the process for booking an backhaul load? off the load boards? I'm having a real hard time getting loaded other than at terminals. RR agents call me all day everyday but their offer in the $1.40 range way too cheap. Tried to book off Landstar was going to pay me quite well, but somehow after the LS agent talked to RR the load was already booked? I can't prove it but i feel I get crockpot blocked from the broker freight.

 

Well they are trying really hard to keep us pulling terminal freight but when freight slacks off that is when I see a big problem. I am on Ch robinson I have worked with them for years and they have some good freight some cheap and heavy i got 2 a mile from cleveland to louisville on 8000 pounds, backhaul will give you the T number to get an account number there. However imho i am going to get an account on a load board so that i can get an advance on load without them Advance blocking me. I really see some chances to make money here but a lot of it will have to be off terminal loads and on broker freight. but with the new drop and hook terminal loads and no deadhead it makes up for some lower revenue. If I can get going with no problems I think this is the place for me.

 

Any updates from the RR guys?