What type of Trailer do you perfer to Haul? What's the most profitable?

Down time is spent at home or doing something other than making sure your truck is available to be loaded/unloaded when the time comes. My responsibilities have not ended just because I'm sitting.

Time is money, particularly if I have another load lined up and now I'm being delayed. I expect to be paid for my time.

Hurst

 

name another industry that pays its employees for down-time just about anything UNIONIZED

 

who has down time?

if you work for mcdonalds and no customers come in for an hour, you still get paid

if you work for IBM, at a managerial position, you get paid salary for 40-50hrs per week, all over or under becomes comp. time (vacation, days off, etc)

the question you should be asking is why are mileage guys giving a free 2-4 hours of their time on a SCHEDULED delivery? if it is a window, you should start detention two hours after arrival, if it is a scheduled deliver, that detention should start after one hour. the rate paid should be for the hourly rate that truck should be running if it wasnt held up at the dock

we do the same thing when you get your truck fixed, $110/hr with a $55 minimum, so if it takes them 5min to fix it, you still pay for the complete 1/2 hour

now, the only people that should be exempt, are those who are carriers who bought the load, there should be enough in the load to include incidentals (up to a certain point)

 

I don't think you realize how difficult it is to find specialized freight at a profitable rate unless you got contracts you are gonna be spending a #### load of down time throwing in offers left anf right waiting weeks and weeks to find a load, and when you do find loads if you aren't making $8 to $10 per mile not including permits, pilot cars, route surveys, pole cars ect then you aren't gonna be able to pay for the $600k in equipment. If you know how to play the load board you will make more off of van and reefer loads, i can pickup van and reefer loads all day for $4 to $5 a mile, you gotta go where the freight is, if you go to a state thats got dick for loads going out you're only gonna make half of what you should and these brokers are trying to get specialized loads hauled for $4 a mile flat rate all included, they'll post a load for $8k that should be paying $20k and to put in an offer is hit and miss all day, you may put in 30 offers a day and be lucky if 1 calls you back after 2 or 3 weeks and is desperate enough to take it

 

You're answering a post that was made in 2015. The author of the post hasn't been on TTR since 2019.
Maybe some of the information from 2015 is a little out of date now?