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How much is it going to cost you if you lose a driver and you have a truck sit for a week or two trying to get drivers into orientation? The class costs about $180 dollars plus hotel room. Not running for two weeks costs $2000 dollars plus a mobile mechanic to get your truck started. The way I...

Maybe not long-term but for the month of January or Febuary it might be ok. If my trucks don't move within 24 hours I find them a backhaul and the lowest I will take is a dollar per mile. I might only make $100 to $200 bucks above fuel and driver pay, but that is better then nothing. My truck...

Leave this carrier right now and get a lawyer. I would find myself another carrier A.S.A.P.

It's not the end of the line for you buddy. Just drive for a fleet owner that helps you get loads when the company does not offer loads. Hopefully you can save your home if you have one.

I think this whole story was made up. I am with the moderator I think this post should be deleted. It's not easy on the road, but I have a hard time taking this guy seriously.

I have a truck that is open in a week from Monday. Teams are starting to do ok. Not nearly what they should be doing, but about 1500 miles a week average. I am on a A contract so I get more per mile and that means you do to. I split everything 60/40 and I work to help you get backhauls if...

Exactly it's ON and QB, but this greatly effects loads from upstate NY to Michigan. Diving around the lakes makes no sense at all.

All commecial vehicles must have governed speed no higher then 63 miles per hour. How many of you are going to spend the money to put gov's on your engine. Will you effect your time performance in the states heading out west where the speed limit is 75mph?

If your thinking about buying another truck I would wait a bit. It's rather slow and teams might be unhappy, but they told me that they were in for the long term. They understand that there job options are limited. 2100 miles a week is good right now.

Things are turning around for my fleet this week. Each truck is loaded at this hour. The team is finishing up a two man in a truck job for a Panther employee thats moving from St. Paul to Seville. They finished the week at 1800 total miles with a $300 dollar hand load. Not too bad each rate...

I guess thats when the auto freight will start up again. No doubt they don't have any inventory on hand so that might give us a bump. No my drivers were not offered a first out or they would have taken it. Anything over 100 miles does not come with a first out. They each got offers to go...

Sure I would have moved them if I knew it was going to be more then a week. I figured being at the top of the board while sitting at home would be good. The truck is not running even though I have generators in the truck. Plus they are in their own bed. Being down the bottom would be different...

Very true, but if your close to the top why leave? I've had a truck number one and two for the past week. Same with up north in Detroit where he keeps getting bumped down by first outs. You would think they would do at least a few loads out of detroit and being number three or four would not be...

Yeah I am with Panther and the trucks in OH and MI have not moved since before Christmas. They got a few 180 mile load offers but they figured they would have to leave home and blow it all on food and fuel just sitting in a truck stop for a week.

Hawk I am not talking about my business giving pink slips. I am talking about Panther themselves giving in house employees pink slips. I could see that happening in each company. My situation is different. My drivers are running out of cash because a few of them have not moved since they...

US Express is now promissing cheaper expedited rates with team drivers. They are pretty much taking away our freight and trying to reduce truck load hours by a day or two. With teams they can enter our segment of the business.:eek:

If they are not decent milage then yeah your doing bad.

No I was refering to the Panther guy that posted a response to my load numbers. Actually the team took two decent runs 680 and 350 miles since the new year. The other drivers are in Michigan and OH and they each got reduced rate $1.10 a mile runs for under 200 miles. They decided to refuse...

Your trucks look like elite service teams. If thats the case it's most likely another story.

The only jobs at Panther that are safe are the recruting department because they have to work there *** off at this point to try to keep truck numbers up. I watched closely yesterday using the board position tools. I could see from MN to eastern PA with a 300 mile range from each truck. One...