Rush Trucking Anyone?

I worked for a guy who had 12 trucks leased to Rush. I ran dedicated automotive the whole time I was there. I ran the same from week to week. Make 3 pickups and deliver to the GM plant in OK City, drop loaded trailer there, pick up the trailer with empty racks on it and return. Then do the same thing all over again. It was steady. I made 3 rounds one week and two the next. On the week I did 3 roundtrips I got about 3900 miles, tricky to log but it can be done. The week with 2 trips was 2600 miles. This guy had his trucks leased to Rush for years and never had any problems getting paid that I heard of. The trailers were'nt the best but they would fix them pretty quick if they went down. The only downside I found about pulling dedicated automotive is that if cars are'nt selling they slow production down. If cars are selling you'll run your butt off. If not you won't. Another thing with dedicated automotive is it almost all JIT{just in time} delivery. The load I hauled had to be there by 10:30 am. they took the stuff right off the truck and put it on the assembly line. When you pick up at a shipper they will usually have a 1 hour window to load you from your appt. time. If they make the load late and it shuts down the assembly line it costs them a buch of money. So you usually won't get jacked around loading. And it was allways drop and hook at GM. Rush also runs a lot of cross border freight from Mexico for the auto makers. The guy I worked for had 3 of his trucks that just ran from Laredo or El Paso to Louisville and Detroit. I've been retired from trucking for a few years now, but if I ever decide to get back in it, dedicated automotive or tankers is the way I would go. I trucked for 30 years and I had 15 pulling a tanker and 5 doing dedicated automotive and I had a lot less problems with those two than your "no hill to steep, no load to cheap" general freight. If you go to Rush beware of the dispatchers on the weekend if your on a dedicated run. They had a general freight division and they would try to con you into hauling some of that. Good Luck

 

I just filled out an app with them. they are hiring for two runs one in brownsville TX to MO and the other in Los Indio TX to Flint MI, both of which could easily go right past my house. I'll let you know what I find out.

 

Have you talked to them? I filled out the app but haven't called. I've been working 13 or 14 hour days this week so I haven't had a chance. That Los Indios to MI would be sweet, about 1800 miles each way if I remember right (it's late though!) i imagine that would be one full turn a week only

 

WHat kind of truck? If you put it on that Los Indios to Flint run I may be interested in driving it depending on the wage and the details of when they load and unload. I'd have to see if it worked out good timeing the home time for where I live

 

I know, I delivered to Machery produce on mack street for 4 years. I know Detroit almost as well as my own home town. I'd deliver at 4am and them go down to the office of H.C.Mclaren, the produce broker I hauled for. I forget the name of the street they were on but it was in a big produce market house. It's always fun getting around down there