What if it Snows?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Dave_in_AZ, Mar 19, 2018.

  1. otherhalftw

    otherhalftw R.I.P.

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    Didn't that area burn last year...maybe the year before? Seemto remember 12 being closed for a week or so recently from a fire.
     
  2. Dale thompson

    Dale thompson Road Train Member

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    Yes it was safety dude is an effing moron. I take being lied to as a personal insult. By that I mean telling me a lie and expecting me to believe it means you must believe I’m ignorant.
     
  3. Blu_Ogre

    Blu_Ogre Road Train Member

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    I'm unsure about what you are unsure about?

    Let me throw some numbers at you so we have a starting point.

    Load pays $1200 all in

    If we call $200 of that fuel surcharge that leaves $1000 as "Line Haul"

    If no Accessory pay like driver unload or layover then you should see:

    Fuel Surcharge $200
    tractor pay 65% = $650

    To the truck pay = $850

    If you are running your own trailer.
    Trailer pay 7% = $70
    If trailer is a refer IIRC %10 = $100

    Will be a separate line item on the second page of the settlement.
     
  4. Espressolane

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    Not sure if it is faded memories or things really have changed. Not a big fast food eater. Sure there have been times that was the quickly available thing, and I needed to put something in the stomach.
    For some reason, the last week or so, I have been wanting a chili-cheese dog. Up to today, I have resisted the craving. Well, I should have continued to do that. Not that it was horrible, it just was not good. The last time I had one, I tried Sonic. It was OK, just not great. Think that has cured me for another year or so.
     
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    Blu_Ogre Road Train Member

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    Usually a small fire of some kind rolls through nearby. They are still just trying to keep the road stuck to the side of the mountain. Been puting in a bunch of steel piles this year. And smoothing out the 2 foot drop offs wher the road has "Settled" recently.

    I remember they had base camp set up at the ski resort last year.

    Currently east bound closure is just outside Naches. I overnighted there a week or 2 ago when the Evans Canyon fire started and watched the fire along the crest.
     
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    Espressolane Road Train Member

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    It has been said, the first two people to die in a hurricane is the weather channel guy and the guy who is going to surf the big waves.
     
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    The question is how many loads do you lose because it’s already preloaded on a landstar trailer or has to be dropped loaded at the receiver......
     
  8. Blu_Ogre

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    Can the next hurricane take this guy? Please?

     
  9. InTooDeep

    InTooDeep Donner party survivor

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    I too find myself craving chili cheese dogs now and again when I do usually make my own.
     
  10. Blu_Ogre

    Blu_Ogre Road Train Member

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    For me it was very few.

    The lanes I ran (West of I25) had very few drop and hook loads that paid well. I may have done 3 or 4 D&H a month for the first 6 months. I purchased my personal trailer 6 months into the contract and never looked back.

    I did not get load alerts for preloaded or Drop trailer freight. On occasion I would get a phone call of "Please help me out and run this preloaded" because the agent did not realize I had my trailer. Usually the rate was so low that I was not even interested in it if they would cross dock it. Or it would be going to a bad freight area for me and the rate would not cover the deadhead out.

    I believe Dave has a different perspective.........