Merrick are you invoicing or is this guy you are paying doing the invoicing? If he is, then you need to see the invoices, he is getting you okay money at $5400 on 3400 mi but he may be skimming. Not trying to make you paranoid, but his comments make me think he may not be above board. Good Luck.

 

I am in Manchester all the time.
I had Harrisburg,Manchester and Hanover today
3 1/2 hours to pick up ten skids at Americold
while the big players are dropping and hooking
I hate them
Americold has a lot of warehouses Kraft etc
You die at every one
Same for Atlas Cold Storage
and
Millard

 

Doghouse after you roll the dice.....go to the church and dump a bunch of holy water in the radiator

 

Hmmm yeah....kinda disagree its so hit-er-miss tho:

G-man and others had recommended I have my truck dynoed.....I was suprised at the concept, cuz I had hooked many cars up to dynometers when I was in that buisness years ago, (at the school I recieved my 2 year certificate from) and it never occured to me diesel trucks being so much larger and different engineering that they use this tool too......and although the results came out a little different then a cars.....the Info. I could at least somewhat interpret.

1. I knew all my cylinders were firing normally
2. I had some blow-by.......slightly high crankcase pressure, not enough to be panicked about now, but knew I better rebuild it for next year,
but had counted on that anyway seeing the slight drop in oil pressure gauge, from the years of wear.....mines idling around 29psi

Granted best to have the test before you buy, I bought at auction, so had to settle for after, but was worth the peace-of-mind.

Hmm all said n evaluating though im seeing I m defe\initly better at the driving and mechanical end of running this business....I just fiqured if I was honerable with brokers n shippers, they would be honerable back. That was certainly naievity.

 

I was told by a driver who I work with at another job that LCT was bought out by another company (UM? ? ganddy corp.???)

 

Already done :wink:

 

On the Americold theme, it's always one of the first question I ask if it's frozen and I'm not sure of the customers. If I'm going to go to one of their facilities, you can bet there's going to be a detention policy well spelled out in the confirmation. If the broker won't do that (which they often won't when Americold is involved) then there's a serious upcharge. It takes a lot to get me to deal with those guys and their b.s.

 

I was there again today in Manchester
I hate that place
It has to be really bad for the broker to come up with any detention on the p/u side because he throws the rate in my face
Hey we're paying you xxxx
Where are you going to get xxxx
He wins usually
Did I mention I hate that place?
But its still not as bad as Fishery Products in Peabody
I hate that place too
And I am there all the time
I need my head examined

 

LTC was bought out a couple years ago by Gainey Transportation.

 

Say Merrick

I share your same wonder, about what really causes low rates, ok the theory from truck drivers has alwasys been, 'desperate owners running the cheap freight.' and if we all quit running it...rates would go up.

I really thing this is only a small part of the equation though, I think there are deeper market forces at work here.....I have been hearing dont run cheap freight for almost 20 years now...and it hasnt worked.

Really like to dig into this more in the future for sure...sorry if should have posted this on the cheap freight post.