67.7 per mile
#12
08-18-2009, 03:36 PM
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the rate go UP the harder it is to get a truck to take the load? You know, the old supply and demand thing? Increasing the rate makes the load more attractive? Like, I wont go to NYC for a $1 a mile, but will do it for $2.50 (or even $1.80 if it's over 2000 miles).
I might go PAST NYC, if the rate to the truck is $2.50 a mile. But...I won't deliver into NYC, for any amount.
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#13
08-18-2009, 06:32 PM
But...I won't deliver into NYC, for any amount.
#14
08-18-2009, 08:49 PM
Hmmmmm. I guess IF I lived up that way going into NYC would be logical...if such exists. But man..to intentionally deliver into NYC from down here??? :hellno: :hellno: :hellno: :hellno:
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#15
08-19-2009, 04:45 PM
Just gotta block out the nonsense and go I guess. I have done those caustic loads 5 or 6 in a row, BIG money, had to look into fuel tank, cause the gauge NEVER moved ! Of course I wouldn't want it steady, no one else does either, but there is always someone who will do it.
#16
08-20-2009, 02:02 AM
It is unique in that it’s the only major US city that you absolutely MUST pay massive tolls to get into, out and move around in. I learned to drive in Chicago, so traffic really doesn’t bother me. Neither do the tight docks and low clearances… it’s all just part of a normal day in this business IMO. But when you gotta dig into your pocket and pony up $200 just to get into and out of the city… THAT hurts, especially when I paid the Verrazano for the first time in a long time and found out they wanted $60… FOR ONE BRIDGE!!!!!
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#17
08-20-2009, 02:19 AM
I won’t do it regularly anymore… not in MY truck, but from 2002 – 2004 I did NYC LTL every week. It really wasn’t that bad in a company truck… if somebody hit me it wasn’t my truck and my loss and I didn't have to pay the tolls. These days we might do NYC once a year, and that’s enough for me to remember why I hate it so much and why I now live 120 miles from any city of size.
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#18
08-20-2009, 04:21 AM
I won’t do it regularly anymore… not in MY truck, but from 2002 – 2004 I did NYC LTL every week. It really wasn’t that bad in a company truck… if somebody hit me it wasn’t my truck and my loss and I didn't have to pay the tolls. These days we might do NYC once a year, and that’s enough for me to remember why I hate it so much and why I now live 120 miles from any city of size.
When I go "past" NYC, I usually take 287 to the NYTollway...take that up to I-84...then I-84 into NEngland. I try really really hard not to go past WV.
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#19
08-20-2009, 06:57 AM
And that's why I lived 15 minutes from you for a number of years 
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#20
08-20-2009, 07:16 AM
No kiddin'? Where would that be?
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