What's your average wait time to get a load when empty?

At my company if we sit for 24hr without a load and are available they pay us $65. Layover

Anyway, sorry for that explanation. Just in case someone didn't know what it was.

Just looked at my statement. $585 in layover so far this year.

:-/

Edit: and I have time to look at my statement in the middle of the day and write this because I got unloaded an hour ago and I'm sitting outside the receiver and:

 

Usually same day but you know trucking. Could be next day also lol who knows anymore I just roll with it and hope for the best most of the time and as long as I'm on time everything else is out of my hands.

 

Unless you're on a dedicated, there us no average.
Could be an hour, could be a day
If the pattern seems to run 4 hrs or more, it's time to find a new job

 

I never wait for my next assignment. I normally have a next load assignment before I even get empty.

 

The biggest part of the time I was on a preplan before I unloaded. I did a lot of Mars out of Cleveland Tennessee to Hazel Pa then deadhead to get a Hershey load. Biggest part of the time that load either went to the Hershey Midwest DC near St Louis, Georgia or Florida. St Louis was almost always a D/H then head south to Texas. When I got into trouble and had long waits was after delivering to the Hershey DC in Ogden or for the most part any DC west of the Mississippi. I think my longest wait for a load was sitting at the TA on I 80 south of Chicago. I sit there for 5 or 6 days waiting to get a load. ( not paid of course) Then I was told to drop my empty in a drop yard just west of there and deadhead to (terryhoutee) to get a load. << I love to say that and piss people off, kind of like the way I also say wack-oh when in Waco Texas.

 

I haul frac sand. When I go on a job, I haul one load after the other until the job is done. Then it's on to the next job. If the next job doesn't start immediately, I go to the house.

 

We raced to salinas Americold in CA one time with 4 dispatchers telling us (A team no less..) to hurry.

We sit at the dock 50 hours sleeping, burning fuel (Half tanks... plus most of our reefer tank precooling) waiting on Americold to blast cool the produce and load. That would be one of the few times FFE ####ed up royally. It's water under the bridge now.

Some meat plants with special order cuts will have you waiting up to 4 or 5 days and nights before you load.

it varies.

The key is communciation, patience and savings. That way if your week is destroyed sitting waiting to load most of a pay week, you have something to tide you over.