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A carrier owes you the contracted rate for any load you haul for them. I would also add that they shouldn't play favorites with drivers, but maybe that would be expecting too much. When I was leased on, I got what I expected out of them. They paid me what they said they would if I hauled the...

That's good. Maybe if the automotive stuff picks up, then all of the other carriers can go back to running all the NLM junk and leave the good stuff alone for the rest of us. Then maybe the rates on the non automotive freight can come back up where they were a few months ago.

It is earned. It's just not paid to the people who earn it.

That might be true about some of them, but it's interesting that when freight was busy we didn't have nearly as much complaining about carriers, probably because people were too busy driving. Funny how that works. Nobody ever gripes about my carrier on here...but there aren't any cheerleaders...

When I was doing courier, I would occasionally pick up produce from a produce company and deliver to local restaurants. It was usually because the restaurant was running short on something and the produce company didn't want to send one of their trucks with a couple boxes of lettuce, so they...

At the J in Aurora, CO. I had low bid on a load yesterday and didn't get it. Same thing today.

I took a slot machine to some place in Vegas that repairs them. Thing had to be blanket wrapped and strapped down nine ways to Sunday.

Here's my list. Stormwater to a lab for testing. A computer chip in an envelope. The entire back of the van stuffed floor to ceiling and all the way to the back door with bags of styrofoam packing peanuts. 1 can of paint 900 miles to Boston. The most adorable Rottweiler puppy you have ever...

Every driver in my company has access to lounges all over the country. You can find them at TA , Flying J, Petro, Pilot, etc.

UAW plants?

Mmmmm

Every carrier has qualities that are praise worthy and every carrier has a few warts. There is room for pointing out both in a civil manner with actual facts and not hearsay or juvenile ranting. Some people have a pretty good relationship with a carrier and I am happy for those people. The...

Yeah. Every time I bid on a load lately I pray that there's not someone else where I am who lives where that load is going and is looking for the fictitious "backhaul."

I wonder if the original post wasn't aimed at those instances where a carrier has a van and a straight in an area and gives the van load to the straight because things are slow and they have a higher priority placed on keeping the straight busy. I can fully understand the situations like...

Limiting the number of times a load is brokered would go a long way toward improving the rates the driver is seeing.

I don't see too many people answering the specific question that a few people probably have, and that is where these loads come from that people are brokering. If you're leased to a carrier and dont' have your own authority, chances are you're probably looking at the internet load boards which...

Taken yesterday driving through Montana and Idaho on the way to Salt Lake.

I delivered in Billings Monday morning, hung out there until today and grabbed an LTL to Salt Lake. I'll try my luck in Salt Lake for a day or two and if nothing turns up I might grab another LTL somewhere else. It's a guessing game in the west, but you can get some good loads sometimes when...

There once was a van stuck in Billings Where the steak and potatoes are filling The driver looked for freight For nearly two days straight To leave he is very much willing

The whole forced dispatch thing can go two ways, the way I see it. You might get passed over for turning down too many lousy loads, but if you take everything they throw at you, you might end up being the "Mikey" of the company and the dispatchers will know that they can throw anything at you...