Trip Dallas, TX to Anchorage, AK

Are you there yet?

 

Do you still expect to make delivery Monday morning?

 

Yeah that's what I thought and it happens often which continues to keep rates down.

However hit one of them moosy things wandering the road or take a tumble into a ditch and screw up the truck, well that few day's vacation will turn into a few weeks vacation and a lot of lost money, not to mention a possibility of being out of trucking.

 

Yukon Territory and Alaska most likely will require Plates/permits because they do not participate in IFTA.

Verify which states and provinces are or are not on your IFTA to know for sure.

Never been up that far so do not know where/how to get them.

You have not mentioned yet if you are hauling a van/refer or flat/O.S.?

 

@Troady Have you set up your data/phone plan to work in Canada yet?

That may be a real rude surprise for you if you do not do it before crossing over.......

 

That's how we look at it however it isn't our place to tell someone else how to run their business. If he is content running the load for the rate he got, its his right to do so.

Butt on the other hand if he comes back whining it cost him 2500 dollars to get a tire brought out to him its our right to snicker and say that's what you get for taking a load 50% under market value.

And to be fair, its not like he is driving our rates down. The customer was willing to put this load on a guy with no northern experience that doesn't even know what's required to run it legally, or to give a realistic expected delivery date. That customer was NEVER going to meet our rate anyway, so let him have it.

I hope it goes well for him and he gets back to the states safe and sound and no worse for the wear. This experienced will teach him that he did this load at cost.