It's a Team's Life

Dead Head

The conversation started with "What do you need to run this load?" and went down hill from there. I was not in a position to use a calculator and when I asked about how much dead head was involved, how much the load weighed, and did it require anything special, once I learned that I gave a price for all miles. Wow I did not expect the anger that quote caused.

The agent did not believe I should be paid for dead head miles when I was not carrying a load. My next comment was do you drive to work? and she replied Yes and I do not get paid to drive to work and you should not expect to get paid to drive when empty to pickup a load.

My next question was do you get paid enough to drive to work? She replied yes it does. Then my next comment was I expect your load to pay enough for me to drive and pick it up. We can do that two ways I can quote you a price for loaded miles only that will then pay enough for me to dead head to the load or I can quote you a price for all miles. The price will be the same though for both ways.

That was about the end of the conversation and no we did not get the load.

Bob & Linda Caffee
TeamCaffee
Saint Louis MO
Expediters since January 2005
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