I've takin up you're "know your worth" saying. It's been a struggle, but slowly turning round for me. After a year my former employer has come to me with a job. Contract signed for over 3x what they were paying me before. Thanks for the uplifting vibes.
@@ronaldstephens1792 that's what I've been doing. Unfortunately my shop and home I rent from 1 of past employer. 1mo. ago told I have 1 year, this week signed contract. I'm so confused. Still plan on moving though.
Thank you. 7 years ago I witnessed an accident of a family get decapitated. From that's it effected me so bad I had to walk away. I was diagnosed with PTSD. Your channel is helping me out. I am now trying to find someone that would let me go with them. I really miss it.
I'm disabled and basically housebound.... haven't left my little town for over a year.... so... watching your travels make me feel like I'm taking a little trip... nice to see the open road.... praying for you and your family.... we all need Jesus... now more than ever.
Don’t apologize for ranting that’s what we are here for. The ride and being a captured listener for your rants. It’s healthy for you to let out your frustrations and it’s nice knowing someone is listening.
Gotta love the types of businesses that are perfectly happy wasting the time of others. Only thing I can think is they had previous shipments shorted and the other company argued the receiving docs were signed and they should have caught it then, so now the company has a 'no tolerance' policy regarding thorough shipment inventory at time of drop-off. Bad companies and bad customers lead to lost productivity, lost efficiency, lost trust, and lost money, all leading to the world being more difficult for all involved. And the end user pays a cost increase at the end of the line. Perfect example of both nothing is free(especially mistakes) and no good deed goes unpunished lol
I do not miss bumping docks. Come to the dark side and pull a tanker. Hook up the hose and go, no lumpers. My load today, 30 minutes at the shipper and two hours at the receiver.
Those lumpers aren’t earning their money 💰!!!!! Nice maneuver backing into the tight spot with no room in the lot!!! T&Ps for another load and a safe trip home!!! Hopefully you’ll be doing a SNL again this weekend??? I’ll see you in the next video!!!
Man I feel for you... That sucks hard... But you have the temperament to handle it. You definitely have your emotions under control and a sign of maturity and great values is that.,you are a big man and a great role model for your kids and other people. Never let them control your behaviour only you can.
Justin my Dad was a owner operator and leased his truck (Kenworth) to reliable and was making bank! I believe it was 52% of each load and that was years ago before he passed away, hauling cars is 💰
CHR pays me $40 / hour detention every time I ask for it--I just call or text as I roll past 2 hours after my appointment time. Convoy pays $40 / hour automatically if you use their app to track your in and out times.
Yeah $200 for all the time she spent sounds like he got shorted. You should be getting at minimum $35/hr after two hours. That’s the very least - some pay more.
I learned how to drive a tractor in a 53 Mack Thermodyne that had 3 gear shifters on a farm license. My best friend in high school had a dad who owned a trucking company. Back in the 70's I was able to convert the farm license into a class A CDL when I turned 18. After my first year of community college I was driving freight for Suddath Van Lines from mid August to the end of December. It paid for college. I was driving a C-65 Chevy with a half sleeper doing a route that started in Jacksonville running down to Miami back up to Tampa and then into the pan handle going back to Jacksonville. It was a day and a half run. There might be stops on the way but when I pulled into the yard with the open side trailer the next available forklift was pulling the 8'x8'x8' wooden cube off/on the trailer. I never spent more than 45 minutes in the yard before I was rolling. I was making stupid good money for a college kid. It is hard to imagine the wait times for loading and unloading you are having.
They got a lotta gall - making you wait 6 hours AND charging lumper fees (IMO the biggest scam in trucking)!!!😡😡 This place would be going on my no-go list, and the broker would be getting a bill for 15 hours wait time (at least $100/hr) and the lumper fees!! Did the broker tell you there'd be lumper fees at the receiver?
That was my thought too. They'll change their tune if they can't get trucks to deliver to them anymore because they treat the drivers like 💩. Negative reviews maybe? Idk.
I once built an oil off loading terminal. We had 66 B trains a day. To deign it I read about specs required required for turn around area. Then I got the trucking coming company to meet on site and they told me spec were correct but to make thing better he needed more area. We built it as the truck company wanted. Drivers were happy. You did not have much room.
$200 for 12 hours of detention? Seriously? Tying up a driver and $150,000 asset because shippers and receivers can't be bothered to get their act together? Owner operators need to draw the line with brokers and insist that rate-cons include mandatory *hourly* detention after 2 hours on a shipper/receiver site of at least $25 an hour. Or take it to Congress and make it a DOT reg....
Fastest Unload I've ever done,is a load of Honda Seat Cushions. Open the doors go backwards and slam on brakes. He handed my bills, I looked back and they were picking it off the docks in Texas.
Hey Justin, just catching up on some of your videos with home time. It's the same in many different areas of different markets from refeer, dry van, grain hopper, and skateboard, etc... The big issue with the long wait times in the transportation supply chain with shippers and receivers hours holding you up. I just make a little reference black book medium size note book : I keep handy with shippers and receivers that I have broken down in 3 categories and tabs. Good - green, Bad - yellow, and Ugly -red. I put broker name, states, cities, and information with little note as to what happening beside each shipper and receiver use. And I have sticky tabs at the top with each of the 3 tabs to separate. I know may be a little old school with pen and paper, but it works for me. I helped quite few drivers I know out when as me about shipper or receiver. As names and locations will ring a bell in your thought and you can go back and look up back quickly. Glad you and family got the gifts. Enjoy, relax, recoup, and recharge with family. Take care and keep the rubber on the road.
Welcome to the wonderful world of trucking I'm kinda fortunate I deliver mostly to Lowes an dedicated to a lumber company that gets us in an out pretty quick
I work for a distribution warehouse. We unload all live loads before we break the pallets down. Unless it's floor loaded then yeas it can take quite a bit longer. Sounds like the unload process there needs to be reevaluated
Don't forget those 6 hours may go into your legal on the clock hours, may mean losing a chance for another load and $$$'s. Likely understaffing at the warehouse, the ongoing supply chain issues, likely factors as well. Then you get the fees that should be on the shipper or receiver, not for you to have to pay out and hope (or not) of being reimbursement.
That’s how sort and seg goes in a warehouse. Running LTL I’d bring 26 pallets and by the time I broke it all down it was 105 pallets. No space to put pallets when the doors are full of trucks.
Justin just been into kimmberly clark here in UK booking not today 12.00 told to park up till 19th come back 7.00am 19th not happening container going back empty been paid wasted journey Happy days 😀 😢 😉 👍
Try to talk to forklift drivers personally and flip them some cash to move quicker. I've done it a few times and it worked only $20 at a time. I make that money back easy.
There is no way it takes that long to get unloaded. I've worked in shipping and receiving for 20+years. I see the problem....its 3rd shift with no management, and those young bucks ain't gonna work. Little as possible and let 1st shift do the rest. Good looking W9 bro!
Watch your videos pretty much every morning before I go to work, enjoy watching an owner operator make a living, thought about trying it one day, anyway when you were talking about the wait time, ive been in that position myself, there's a place down here in perry Georgia thats the same way sometimes, I got there at 9am on a Sunday morning and didn't leave till 6pm that day, hauling coke products
You should put a video together showing new people how to break down cost per mile of an operation so they know how much they need to make per mile when looking at loads and when low is to low or at least know well today I made 60cents a mile but any lower I’m better of just being an employee. I know most people don’t know the numbers and some are already making less than company drivers
I think I’d of called the broker and told him I’m returning the load to the sender. No detention and pay a lumper? Not without being told the conditions beforehand. Nope take it back!
Its the locally owned mom n pop stations in my hometown that you want to use. Their the ones who actually order good fuel and not just anything from anywhere. There is a couple name company's that a cashier has said they have proof the owner which is foreign had the fuel delivery driver use 87 octane to fill up their under ground tanks in all 3 grades. Im like you I find a couple good ones and stick to em. When I'm on the road its Weigel's, Ta, or sometimes Pilot.
Good morning , going by your titles as of lately . It seems as if you're in the military with the " hurry up and wait " syndrome . Just wondering about the lumper fees , when they're that high , if it all goes to the lumper{s} themselves . Enjoy your weekend .
I would love for the shipping and receiving side of the business would change. It is not right to hold drivers that that amount of time, My company gets drivers in and out with at least a little amount of delay. DO you get delayed time pay and reimbursed for that fee you were talking about.
Having the driver wait because they tear down every pallet they unload is utter madness. Just unload that trailer so the driver can leave and sort it out later.
I delivered to a company in Texas and I was there for a hour waiting for them to unload my truck but everyone was gone to lunch so I put on a vest and hardhat and did it myself nobody said anything they gave me my paperwork I left
What freight apps do u use just curious just getting into trucking and was wondering how u find loads and wat not also wat phone mount do u use lol so u can record
Hey Justin Can you please explain the reasoning behind your stretched chassis over there,it looks like they aren't very aero dynamic ,here in Australia we get the gap between trailer and prime mover as close as possible to reduce the amount of air drag between the two ,I mean your fuel ain't cheap anymore ,just a curious Aussie truck driver looking at the way you guys do trucking Cheers and regards to you and your family Kym Adelaide Stu Australia
Ah I see better ride makes sense, but with a bonnet truck that long you must have much more room in depots and warehouses than here in Australia to back onto docks ,I see just trucking w9 and he has some tight spots at times and he isn't stretched ,always nice to see how the next guy does it .one other thing comes to mind you would never get full load weight on steer that long ,cab overs are very popular here in Australia so we can carry maximum weight per axle .6.5 ton steer 17.5 biggie drive and 22.0ton on a tri axle trailer if you have mass management permits otherwise it's 6.0steer 16.0 drive 20.0 tri axle, the spread biggie trailers you all seem to use here have a third axle in the middle hence our tri axle Cheeers kym Adelaide Stu Australia
@@kymw7833 yeah I've never understood the super stretch. Here in the states a single combination is limited to something around 102 feet long before you have to do multiple trailers or permits. So it doesn't make sense load wise to be stretched and need a smaller trailer
The stretch is cool for the states just that in other countries like Australia and South Africa we use tri Axles and Superlinks backing up a Superlink straight is very hard as you use a technique called Anaconda Reverse to just back it up straight. The stretch would make it almost impossible to back it up.
@@michaelprosperity3420 I was a 12N in the Army, got my CDL completely free, just had to pay for the paper test. No pre-trip test, and no driving test.
