Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

A lot of the Amazon O/O contractors I see pulling their trailers are new to the business. They have their company name printed on a piece of paper and taped to the door of the truck, and they simply don't know how to drive.

 

It almost was. Everyone I was calling required swing doors, but I got extremely lucky that someone needed a trade show move that needed a 48' trailer or smaller to hit the dock. I was like 10 minutes away from calling the broker and returning that trailer.

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That was one of the more difficult backing experiences I've had. The street view picture is from before I loaded there. When I was there, the ceiling was damaged over every dock, the red fence was bent, and all of the concrete pillars and yellow rails were in pretty bad shape.

After that experience, I decided it was time to get out of running power only and get my own trailer.

 

That looks tight!

 

I wouldn't want to chance it in a box truck, let alone a rig. That's six different kinds of ugly.

 

I take maybe 2 or 3 load per year from TQL. Despite all the bad press they are getting, they've never hurt my feelings yet. The one thing that was sort of suspicious was a load of radiators that turned out to be a load of radiators from a scrap yard - unsuitable for my trailer. I caught it ahead of time, called them and cancelled a day and a half ahead of pick up. They did not resent that at all and even thanked me for doing it early enough. I don't know what they would say if I decided to bail out on them at the very shipper, which I would have done.
Me and TQL are like a dog and hedgehog play. The former wants to play with the latter as it was not pinpricked hard enough yet and the latter does not care what happens if the former catches it too hard.

BTW: the post was also intended as my exercise of using the "former and latter" expression as I sometimes forget which one is which. LOL .

 

I didn't have anything booked for the rest of the week so I hopped on Convoy to see what was happening first thing this morning and noticed a reefer beer load to Eugene OR from my area for over $4 per mile that picked up in less than 2 hours. I figured that if I was going to rush to get dressed and get over there, I was going to make it worth my while so I bid it up to $5 per mile and got a win notification in less that 5 minutes. So I'm sitting here waiting to be loaded and looked at Convoy again and see a frozen load out of Portland 5 hours after I deliver in Eugene for $1.50 per mile and I bid it up to $2 per mile. Won it almost immediately. I wish it was always like this.