Idaho Bound!

The trucking gods have smiled upon us today! I found this dump truck needing to be moved that was paying higher than anything coming out of the area, over $3/mi when most freight is moving for less than $1.90/mi. After spending quite a bit of time vetting and talking with the broker to make sure neither of us were scamming the other. I believe I've touched on this in the past, but basically one of the biggest barriers that we in the industry are struggling with, aside from crap/cheap rates is what's called double brokering. Basically, in a nutshell, a broker hires Carrier A to haul a load (who may or may not be legit) then Carrier A hires Carrier B (who is typically legit) to actually haul the load and then leaves Carrier B without payment OR the broker is fraudulently selling off the load without intention of paying the carrier at all.

This is our reality everyday when booking loads, thank goodness the investigation skills are strong between the both of us thanks to Daryl's law enforcement background and my law enforcement and nursing background, we sleuth pretty well.

So I booked this old dump truck headed out of one dead zone (Salt Lake City, UT) for delivery tomorrow into another dead zone (Garden Valley, ID), but lucked out and snagged a reload for tomorrow picking up in Emmett, ID that will take us into the Denver market for delivery on Monday.

While working on getting the dump truck onto our trailer (i.e. my expert passenger princess skills being put to use in waddling down the trailer to guide Daryl into place....which on some of these loads can take quite a bit of trust on his part to be sure I'm not having him drive off the side of our deck lol) we noticed that the couple beside us were struggling with positioning the excavator they had loaded. They were over height and struggling to figure out how to get the equipment legally on the deck as they weren't set up to carry over dimensional loads and this was their first time hauling this type of equipment. They were Russian, or something similar so the language barrier was present, but thanks to some patience and our height stick, we were able to help them get their load settled in so they could legally run. I'm still learning the over dimensional side of trucking as that's our next venture, but Daryl more well versed in the ins and outs of the legalities of it.

So, now we have the weekend to just chill, grill out if weather permits, and maybe take in a little sight seeing giving Drake the full experience of pushing that clock and taking that down time between loads!

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