What would you quote? multistop nursery load

where are they coming out of??? Most nursery stock The reciever, lowes/walmart/home cheapo, etc will receive all day. I just called about some out of tennessee....

 

3500 for a 10 drop nursery load on 326 miles will never happen..... 2200 is the real number to the truck including FSC. FYI i've hauled nursery for 15 plus years.

 

I get 3.20 per mile plus 50.00 per stop after the first one. This is with a flat also.
I don't help unload either. This is out of mcminnville & manchester.

 

I'm not familiar with Tennesee nursery shipping. But I am with Oregon nursery which is 10x bigger. From now to mothers day its balls to walls in shipping. 95% of the nurseries here use brokers due to its easier to line trucks up. I am direct with a few farms and also have a broker that takes 8-10 percent which i feel is fair. The big problem with nursery is the time involved for picks, loading, drops and unloading. Also some of the locations you have to load or unload are not built for big rigs. When you call on a load ask if it is containerized, B&B, pallettized or on rolling racks. Always call each receiver beforehand and let them know you are coming and to make sure they have the proper equipment and crew to offload their product.

 

Where it is going is as big a factor as anything. Walmart, Lowes, HD, etc are pretty easy to get into and unloaded. But start hitting those "Home Town Nursery" and you will have them hooking chains to pallets and dragging them out, no real place for parking, maybe only one person working that is doing other things than unload, etc.

You accept that it is a day loading. But the unload will kill you. And if it is driver assist, you learn real soon to park with the tail of trailer lower than the front.

 

Ask brook for the rate confirmation on when I did the 19-stop Menards load.