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re: Flatbed Truck Shortage
Posted on 4/27/17 at 8:32 pm to TxWadingFool
Posted on 4/27/17 at 8:32 pm to TxWadingFool
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Oil field booming is the reasoning they're hearing,
I see on Jones Web site that they've got lots of loads of mats headed out to west Texas that haven't been picked up.
It's also the combination of decking lumber season and mulch season. Mulch is a bitch. Because it's so low value and bulky. And everyone stocks up on it in April. I think it's something like 100,000 loads of mulch in the month of April alone. And maybe 5000 in a month like Oct or Nov. So it's a brutal surge. And that mulch is made of pine bark. So it's leaving the same areas my lumber is leaving.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 8:34 pm to No Colors
I sent u contact!! He is a good dude as fel tiger can vouch. Let me know u got email with contact
Posted on 4/27/17 at 9:09 pm to TxWadingFool
Houston is booming right now, we're having to pay ~40% more than we were just last month for loads we're brokering. Even our company trucks out of Houston are getting booked 2-3 days in advanced, need a truck after 12? Good luck.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 10:29 pm to No Colors
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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.
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.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 10:38 pm to No Colors
Well those brokers suck then. Should get picked up by someone if they are on truckstop
Posted on 4/27/17 at 10:50 pm to cgrand
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
Posted on 4/27/17 at 10:54 pm to PapaPogey
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Well those brokers suck then. Should get picked up by someone if they are on truckstop
Load is listed on truckstop. I usually pay $1850 for the trip. But I increased my offer to $2150 and still no takers. It's 860 miles so that's $2.50 a mile.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 11:05 pm to White Bear
Not sure how to do that...
Posted on 4/27/17 at 11:06 pm to No Colors
That is interesting then. We had guys blowing us up for our loads on truck stop. Pretty much everything from power only and flat beds to RGNs and reefers. And you're right, backhauls are easy to come by out there.
eta: If you're still in a bind come monday, I can give you someone to call. It's a 3PL but not necessarily a "broker"
eta: If you're still in a bind come monday, I can give you someone to call. It's a 3PL but not necessarily a "broker"
This post was edited on 4/27/17 at 11:18 pm
Posted on 4/27/17 at 11:23 pm to No Colors
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.
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.
This post was edited on 4/27/17 at 11:56 pm
Posted on 4/27/17 at 11:39 pm to No Colors
Can anyone haul or do you need special insurance?
Posted on 4/28/17 at 5:08 am to auggie
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.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 7:17 am to YOURADHERE
If your company does a lot of drop and hook,it will be OK. Companies that are almost all live load and unload,drivers will be screwed.
I have 3 trucks,2 pull refers and are on a contract that is all drop and hook,but back when we were doing live loads,sometimes we had 5 hours or more loading/unloading,a driver on e-logs can't really make that work,because it cuts him back so bad on his available driving time.
I have 3 trucks,2 pull refers and are on a contract that is all drop and hook,but back when we were doing live loads,sometimes we had 5 hours or more loading/unloading,a driver on e-logs can't really make that work,because it cuts him back so bad on his available driving time.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 7:19 am to No Colors
i have a buddy that is a broker, says every flatbed around here is oil/gas almost exclusively.
gotta bring up those prices
gotta bring up those prices
Posted on 4/28/17 at 7:32 am to auggie
Why don't they log out if they're waiting hours to get loaded? I don't fully understand how the e-logs work. Or, why they're so much harder to cheat on than paper logs.
Posted on 4/28/17 at 7:49 am to No Colors
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
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
This post was edited on 4/28/17 at 7:52 am
Posted on 4/28/17 at 8:19 am to YOURADHERE
But my question stands: A driver leaves his house at 6 am and starts his log. Arrives to get loaded at 7 am. They tell him: It's gonna be 5 hours before we can get you loaded. So, he logs out, climbs in the back of his truck, and watches a movie, then posts on the Poli Board for a couple of hours.
Then, when it's time to get loaded, he logs back in. He still looses that hour that he was driving in the morning. But he doesn't lose the 5 hours that he was sitting in his truck.
Then, when it's time to get loaded, he logs back in. He still looses that hour that he was driving in the morning. But he doesn't lose the 5 hours that he was sitting in his truck.
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