This guy.
He's been ideling his engine for the last few hours. I've been tempted to confront him with the fact that he's in a "no idle" zone. I've refrained.
People like him make me wish that the high cost of fuel will continue. I'm hopeing that morons such as him and the companies that he works for will go out of business.
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I regularly read your blog and I thought I would turn to you and see if you might feel inclined to help educate me a little.
First, some background. I am an employee of a bay and bow window manufacturer in Mansfield, OH and having been driving for them, delivering their product for about 7 and a half years. I have two dedicate runs that I make every other week. One week I go to Chicago and Milwaukee and the next week I go to Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Lafayette, and sometimes St Louis and/or Louisville. As with all other aspects of the economy, our business has dropped off quite a bit. Up until about a year and a half ago, I would return home empty from the furthest point out. I made a proposal to the company that I would look for backhauls, make the arrangements, and do the paperwork and take a portion of the money for my services, plus my hourly wage. I did this mostly to keep my hours up and keep me out of the factory. But this has worked out pretty well for them, and me as well. So much so that they are considering some other options in trucking and I have been approached to look into it.
Hence, my questions. I need some information about fuel surcharges, bidding on lanes, and some other aspects that an owner operator would know better than a company driver. Right now, we run 48 ft dry vans and we are not authorized in all states; mostly just the Midwest and part of the East coast. So that's something else I'm wondering about, getting the permits for other states and the cost of them.
It would be nice to have a conversation over the phone but email also works well.
Right now, I have gotten all my loads off of Getloaded.com and it's worked pretty well, but it would be nice to feel a little more confident about the negotiating process if we expand out some.
Thanks for your time in this. Stay safe and be careful out there.
John
jericwilkins@yahoo.com
I don't think I can help you much.
There are two types of owner operators. The first type is the real deal. He has his own operating authority, finds his own loads, does all the paperwork ( a ton of it) required etc. etc.
The second type leases to a company who does all that stuff for him. The company finds the loads, bids on them, takes care of permits, and all the "fiddly stuff"
For which they split the take. The split runs from sixty forty to eighty twenty. Owner-Op/company. Or so they say. It's generally accepted by ownerops that the company lies.
Nevertheless most of us lease to companies.
I'm the second type. I lease to a heavy haul company. I'm afraid that most of your questions are about things that I let my company take care of.
That's why they make the big bucks.
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