This is how you #!$! on brokers and shippers.

I vacation at the house. A weekend in Atlanta sounds miserable to me.

I do the time/$ calculation more often these days than the rate per mile.

 

Made 3 produce picks in Salinas cal weds night and 1 of them hasn't got the message yet ...coastal coolers in castroville .
Arrived for 9 pallets at 6 pm weds and pulled out the dock at 430 am thurs morn .
In and out of Taylor farms in 2 hours ...in and out of growers express in an hour ( Gonzales ) .
Glad the load pays well !

 

Your truck, your rules...

 

That's a great point right there. It's OK to make you sit for hours on end with the logbook (or now that ELD thingy,) ticking away if it's on their terms...how's that work? Or better yet, WHY does that work?

 

My hat's off to your dad....good man!

 

There's no such thing as "taking a short vacation" while you're in the cramped cab of a semi truck. That's what home is for. I deadheaded 600 miles from Wintersville, OH back home to TN with my reefer Friday afternoon. Saturday morning I booked a dry van load that had me backtracking/deadheading the way I had come from the night before to pick that one up.

I do this all of the time. Usually as soon as I'm empty. Been doing it for years that way. Sometimes I do book loads after I get empty if I'm in a good area. I actually love doing that it's like a bonus. But I will not lose money and time on cheaper loads. I can overnight back to the good stuff and make at least the same money as someone hauling cheaper loads bridging gaps. They waste more time than me. They're working harder to earn a buck. If you can book $5+ on solo runs 500 miles or less you are foolish to waste time with cheap loads going back to them. Go back empty as soon as you are empty and do it again, unless, you are empty in a $5+ market.

 

A buddy would make this dumb call every time to grab a short (usually cheap) 200 mile hop to his dedicated load - more than once it came close to jeopardizing his customer.

Kept telling him he was encouraging low rates in the area and running himself ragged for little reward.

Obsessed with low dead head and keeping loaded miles high.

I showed him how my deadhead went from 15% to 50% over three years, while rate per mile to the truck increased 50% - to no avail.

Different trailer types, but I still couldn’t see much difference.

 

Kinda sounds like cow hauler logic to me.