Would you like to know how much time drivers spend at locations on average?

Thats another reason you will see lumper prices will vary as well.

If 10 pallets breaks down to 60 ( as you said ) the trucking company pays for that time for products to be seperated for their stores orders.

Its crazy how that stuff works at these places ....

 

About 20 min as all, i do is drop and hook, i havn't bumped a dock in over 10 years. Long enough to do a post trip on trl i drop and pre trip on the one i pick up. Turn and burn is how i get down the road screw that nonsense of sitting waiting for hrs on end. Do my 3500 mi a week and home fri night leave mon morning.

 

Never seen a 3,500 mile a week gig that paid worth a #### for an o/o. I hated running blood sucking miles like that back when I used to do it. Anymore I get tired and in a bad mood if I do much more than around 1,800 miles a week.

 

yeah but those ltl carriers pay well and i like the aspect of drop and hook, doubles hooked and ready to book

 

Believe me it matters just as much to company drivers.Can't make any money if the wheels are'nt turning.You as an O/O I would ask the broker how long would you be sitting in the dock before accepting the load.I would think it would be on the confirmation on the brokers end.I know many times dispatchers knows exactly how long drivers will be there but they don't dare tell the drivers because they know we'll ##### about it ,at least I would.Company drivers can't refuse loads but if I was an O/O I would wanna know my wait time and if there is any detention to compensate for it.Certain places you'll going to have to wait.Like places that go strictly by appt only, such as meat loads places that have lumpers,many DC'S,beer plants and Nestley's.Find out before hand how much detention you get.

 

I am seldom at a rcvr for more than 15mn.
But I run LTL, and really do not have much more than that amount of time to spend at any one stop. I also visit many of the same places day in and day out.
SO I have gotten to know the dock people. As well as what I can expect from most of my customers.

 

If you think a little under $2 per loaded mile is paying well, yeah i guess they do. They probably have $15,000 in revenue per pup trailer. I've got an LTL carrier that occasionally calls me to get one off live truckloads one pick one drop from some of their customers. Sometimes the loads go to one of their terminals. The last one I did didn't. The shipper was complaining that they didn't give him any bills for my load, that they never did. So he said here take this. It had all the freight details. It also had what the charged to cover the load. $2,188 and some change on 275 loaded miles. Talk about an eye opener. I only got $1,250. I joked with the agent about how he must drive a lambo. He said that the loads were on the carrier side but they needed an outside truck to come get one of them. Said he didn't make margins like that. Said that particular customer and others in the general area tend to pay really well though when they need a truck on short notice. Nice to know some carriers do such a good job on rates. Those doubles gigs never pay until holiday season and only then when you got them over a barrel. Most operators will pull them for peanuts. But not this one.