re: Flatbed Truck Shortage

I sent u contact!! He is a good dude as fel tiger can vouch. Let me know u got email with contact

We use a place called Pinch at work. I don't know if they can do what you need or if you tried them already.

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Will do. Trying to get some weight on her. For a stray, she's a picky eater! I'm on dog food brand #3. She will eat this one, but she doesn't eat a full serving at one sitting. It takes her all day to get through two 16 Oz Solo cups of food in her bowl. I'm gonna try a couple more brands to see if she will hammer one down.

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Not to derail this thread... But I had this problem with our boxer when we adopted her... She was 32 pounds and a picky eater. Our vet suggest 2 big spoonfuls of plain yogurt mixed with the food until she gets familiar with her new family. Totally got her eating well.

After a few months we cut it back little by little to now she just gets dry food.

Took about 8 months and she got to 58 pounds and is holding it pretty steady.

Sounds like your using the wrong dumpster company or don't do a lot of volume. We get them any time we need them and get swapped out same day or following, can get multiple dropped on site if doing a demo. That's in the Baton Rouge/ surrounding area and New Orleans area, not sure where you are working

Holler on ch 19 ba.

Not sure how to do that...

Things are probably going to get worse in The next few months, especially if the E-log thing is really getting more serious. It's going to pretty much cut a driver back by at least 30% weekly. Many will be getting out of the business.
Shippers that are known to have slow loading times,and consignee that are slow to unload a truck,their loads will get looked over or pay extra,because it takes away from the drivers available driving hours.
If the e-logs come into play, loading/ unloading can't take more than 1 hour each(from the time he pulls onto your yard),unless the load is at least 1,200 miles,more than that,the driver is losing money.
Drivers on paper logs can cover the extra time,and fudge times,so that they still drive plenty of miles. The drivers on e-logs can't do that.
My cousin drives for a company that just went to the e-logs,he is really mad about how it has cut him back.He wants to jump to another job,but he has a situation where he has to have the family medical insurance.
It's going to cost everybody..a lot.

Our company is transitioning to E Logs and they haven't been well received but they'll take some getting used to. One of our drivers is a total hardass and was pissed about them at first but after running with it for a couple weeks has admitted it's not as bad as he expected. Our older drivers are struggling with them a bit though.

i have a buddy that is a broker, says every flatbed around here is oil/gas almost exclusively.

gotta bring up those prices

You're allotted 14 hours per day of On Duty time, 11 hours of Driving time. Once the truck is put into Pre-Trip mode it goes to On Duty, when the truck moves it goes to On Duty/Driving when you arrive at a loading location you mark yourself as Loading, that stops your Driving time but still allows your On Duty time to tick away. So a driver could leave his house at 9am, arrive at a loading location at 10am, wait 6 hours to get loaded. By now its 4pm, that driver has only 7 hours of On Duty time left even though he's only driven for 1 hour on the day. The 14 hour On Duty period runs out before he's had the chance to drive for his 11 hours. This is why loading and unloading times will become critical more than ever. It'll especially get shippers/receivers attention when a truck runs out of hours on their yard and can't move and must take a 10 hour break on their lot.

With paper logs that same driver could cheat the system and show his load time as being shorter, thus not eating into his 14 hour On Duty status as much.

Hopefully this isn't too confusing