you are probably better off with the empty mile pay if they can't get anything else....2900 miles at super cheap would be a loser....now had it been going to KC or Denver might play out different...
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It's a 2 hour giveaway from the 3 pm pickup to the 5 pm giveaway, then 5 hours detention pay from 5 pm to 10 pm. Then the layover pay added on top of that.
Slo-Ride
Veteran Expediter
Doesn't matter what he gets now... No way to recover a lost day regardless what it pays.
I got $805 for 140 miles and a 10 hr delay then cancelled load last week. Bring on more lost days.
Slo-Ride
Veteran Expediter
Nice...Something tells me that's not the norm anymore tho. Sitting on one of those screwed up orders now and will have to watch payroll like a hawk because anymore wait times seem to change at the drop of a hat.
So far I've had to deadhead from the J in Olive Branch to the FedEx Supply Chain facility up, you know, kind of across the street from the twin Pilots. 8 miles I think it is. I spent most of the 7 hours from 3-10 pm sitting in the air conditioning of the facility.
Then last night I came across the street to the Arby's Pilot where I got a Beef Gyro and a medium curly fry. It's a good sandwich, but it ain't a Gyro. Whoever it was at Arby's that came up with this clearly has never had an actual one.
They should just call it a Roast Beef Deluxe on Pita. It's their regular roast beef (which, OK, I'll give them a pass on) and lettuce, tomatoes, onions (they use red onions instead of chopped white onions, which gives it completely different flavors), and what they boldly claim is tzatziki sauce. It's not. Not even close. It's a mayo-esque concoction that's not even remotely similar to yogurt with cucumbers and garlic and dill. They also claim authentic Greek spices. Newp.
It's a good sandwich, but don't get one expecting a gyro.
Anyway, I'm heading back over at 11 am to try this again. But this time I'm armed with the same pickup number and the names of three contacts (two of whom yesterday told me the pickup number is meaningless). But hopefully after the phone lines having been burned up over the last 12 hours they'll have located my 40 pound box and I can hit the road and deliver this load to the 3pl freight forwarded in Atlanta that it was supposed to be delivered to at 8am this morning.
I won't be surprised to find that it was loaded onto a trailer around 1am and it's already in Atlanta. <snort>
Then last night I came across the street to the Arby's Pilot where I got a Beef Gyro and a medium curly fry. It's a good sandwich, but it ain't a Gyro. Whoever it was at Arby's that came up with this clearly has never had an actual one.
They should just call it a Roast Beef Deluxe on Pita. It's their regular roast beef (which, OK, I'll give them a pass on) and lettuce, tomatoes, onions (they use red onions instead of chopped white onions, which gives it completely different flavors), and what they boldly claim is tzatziki sauce. It's not. Not even close. It's a mayo-esque concoction that's not even remotely similar to yogurt with cucumbers and garlic and dill. They also claim authentic Greek spices. Newp.
It's a good sandwich, but don't get one expecting a gyro.
Anyway, I'm heading back over at 11 am to try this again. But this time I'm armed with the same pickup number and the names of three contacts (two of whom yesterday told me the pickup number is meaningless). But hopefully after the phone lines having been burned up over the last 12 hours they'll have located my 40 pound box and I can hit the road and deliver this load to the 3pl freight forwarded in Atlanta that it was supposed to be delivered to at 8am this morning.
I won't be surprised to find that it was loaded onto a trailer around 1am and it's already in Atlanta. <snort>
My experience was that there were too many cross threaded nuts attached to "the bolt". Don't miss it at all.
That's what is nice about our carrier, no big gears, just a well rounded pulley that gets "oiled" at night
We will when we start talking about June crap.
So, back to the continuing stooory of Pigs...In...Space!!
I get over here and talk to one of the contact names. They know all about it. Only now instead of one box they've added 6 more to it, cause they're all going to the same place in Russia via the same place in Atlanta. FedEx Supply Chain treats plastic wrap like it's spun platinum. They don't wanna waste it on my load.
The meaningless number that I was given is the actual order number, the same one that's on all the paperwork and on the box, and in their computer. One person here wondered aloud if it didn't actually arrive in that truck at 10 this morning.
In any case, nor that I'm loaded, I'm waiting on a call back to find out if I can even take the load. It's marked:
Medical Supplies, Perishable
Must Remain in Cool Climate While in Transit.
If doesn't say anything about while in Sprinter
Got the call. Yeah, it does need to stay cool. So get there as soon as you can.
I'm on it. LOL
I'm on it. LOL
And I thought you would just take your own sweet time because you know we get paid by how long it takes to run a load LOL
Would have been cheap as compared to having the carrier take a cut.. I have yet to run for less than my contracted rate wherever I go...
$.80 loaded, $.35 d/h or empty move...also get FSC on loaded miles.
I tried that earlier but was told there was some unfinished business that needed to be finished.
It's June people....... time to put this thread to bed!
Thank you!