As an o/o leased to a dry van company, would you prefer to earn revenue through running miles, or by earning drop / pick up pay ? Would the latter not make more sense, since your truck is making money without having its wheels turn ? What are the LTL companies out there that sign on o/o ? What are the pros and cons of LTL vs. truckload, from an o/o perspective ?

I'd really appreciate some response to this. Thanks in advance.

 

A question that I'm interested in too! Let me add another: generally speaking are the wait times generally different in LTL as compared to full trailer loading & unloading? I know it varies from shipper to shipper - but I'm guessing that LTL carriers don't spend as much time at big warehouses(?) Does it affect the bottom line?

 

There is a difference between doing LTL and working for an LTL carrier. There are some typically truckload carriers who do some LTL. I have done quite a bit of LTL over the years. Rates usually tend to be higher and you will likely run fewer miles for the week due to the extra stops. Sometimes you are given priority with an LTL and other times you wait your turn. If you work for a LTL carrier then you may only run local or regional. Some of them have short-haul or local drivers who run a route and pickup LTL's all during the day. These may go back to a central distribution point where the pieces are sorted and may be put on a truckload carrier for delivery. These can be their own trucks or those that are used from another carrier. It is basically 2 separate segments of the market. When I do LTL I may only have 2-6 drops. A regular LTL carrier could have double or more since they may pickup smaller packages or pallets. Both are LTL but operate somewhat differently.

 

I have been sitting here in Nebraska in a motel since Tuesday afternoon drawing 48 bucks an hour detention time, last word was it might be unloaded by morning, I told them,take your time

 

You need to tell them that you don't want all that money, Fredog. You are just going to have to pay more taxes.

 

I love those ltl loads that pay like a full one.Last year, i got paid around 5 dollars per mile,500 miles run for delivering 2 full buckets of chocolate on my reefer to a factory.That's the best load i got since being in trucking and i don't think i catch another one like that for a long time.

.Unless they pay very good, i don't like bothering with extra pick and drops.Extra time,traffic can add up and not make it worth.

 

I ended up with 90 hours, $4320.00 I'm going to donate it to my favorite charity. ME

 

One of my trucks just picked up a load that only took up 12 feet of deck and weighed 15,000 pounds. Due to time constraints on the delivery I wasn't able to find something to fill out the trailer. The load paid as a truckload but I sure hated to not fill out the trailer.

 

I frequently haul beer and/or wine LTL and I spend a lot of time at the larger distribution warehouses. It can lead to frustration at times.

 

Why thank you, Fredog!:lol: