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Reality setting in
Big Sky Redneck
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I agreed to run for this guy and run watermelons out of Florida for a spell to make some quick cash. Delivered in Manassas, VA yesterday and today am picking up the first load to Florida to get me into the watermelon area.
I haven't been in Florida in maybe 15 years and swore I would never go back, not even to visit. The money offered is too good to pass up so here I go, then I see where I'm going. Absolute hell in a truck, taking a truck to this part of the world is worse than NYC, what have I done [:(][:(]
I haven't been in Florida in maybe 15 years and swore I would never go back, not even to visit. The money offered is too good to pass up so here I go, then I see where I'm going. Absolute hell in a truck, taking a truck to this part of the world is worse than NYC, what have I done [:(][:(]
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That may sound brash and rude, but it's the truth, my friend. And you know it's said with the best intentions.
You're a professional. Suck it up and perform. Be glad it's not Falujah or Baghdad. The only ambush you'll face is a deputy with a radar gun.
That may sound brash and rude, but it's the truth, my friend. And you know it's said with the best intentions.
I've driven a truck through Baghdad and Falluja, safer than I-95 in Florida!!!!
Did I ever mention how much I miss the Middle East and the first job opprotunity that pops up that pays well and I'm boarding an airplane yesterday!! [:D]
Report back soon, willya?
I was thinking more of the awful MREs of the 90s. But since you've "one-upped" me on every count so far, I'm jist gonna shet up!
Report back soon, willya?
[:D][:D]
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Hit the Jake Brake when you go thru Jupiter !!!![8D]
We going to Hooters???
FL highway patrol likes to see out of state speeders. Tom
Big Sky? Hello?
If you continue to make regular melon runs I'll be living in the Kissimmee area in about a month. I'd like to see you.
Melons will run till about mid Sept with these rates, I'm going to keep going till I have a stroke. Gawd I hate this traffic over here!!
Why aren't you running watermelon a little closer to home? Like say Hermiston, OR where there's tons of watermelon ..,my brother in law runs weekly from Hermiston(and sometimes right out of Yakima) down to Nogales, picks up a load there and comes back..stays the hell away from the East coast.
They are paying more over here, I came out of Idaho for right at $2.00 per mile but over here the melons will pay closer to $3.00 per mile and the fuel is cheaper.
Also OR has a stupid tax system that charges rediculous amounts of $$ to run there, since I now pay my own IFTA and have my own permits I cannot go into OR unless I agree to around $1.00 per mile to drive there.
If you continue to make regular melon runs I'll be living in the Kissimmee area in about a month. I'd like to see you.
You moving out of Cali?
quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
You're a professional. Suck it up and perform. Be glad it's not Falujah or Baghdad. The only ambush you'll face is a deputy with a radar gun.
That may sound brash and rude, but it's the truth, my friend. And you know it's said with the best intentions.
I've driven a truck through Baghdad and Falluja, safer than I-95 in Florida!!!!
Now that's funny!
Hope everything works out big in your favor BSR!
The dirty little secret was, the only air the freight was exposed too between the airports was hauling * down the interstate but the customer paid air freight rates.
It was understood that due to the volume of freight going into Fla. and the limited freight coming out of Florida that when we unloaded in Miami, we were to just hammer down north and call dispatch from Valdosta Ga. Often as not, we deadheaded back to North Ga. for a load going back out West.
Reefer freight is about all that comes out of Fla. and that's seasonal.
Damn freight brokers will send you down for a load of melons but when you get there, the melons are still in the field and trucks are lined up waiting for hours & hours with the reefer running waiting to load.
If and when there was a dry van or flatbed load coming out of Fla, it paid almost nothing because the freight brokers knew that there would always be some poor trucker that would haul a load for almost nothing to just help pay for his fuel to get out of "The Sunshine State".
By and large with few exceptions, Freight Brokers are blood sucking vampires and I wish a pox on all their houses.
I kind of got carried away in my comments but unless things have changed, Fla. is not trucker friendly with the speed cops, toll roads and cheap freight.
quote:Originally posted by mark christian
If you continue to make regular melon runs I'll be living in the Kissimmee area in about a month. I'd like to see you.
You moving out of Cali?
Don't you keep track of your paid staffers?
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
quote:Originally posted by mark christian
If you continue to make regular melon runs I'll be living in the Kissimmee area in about a month. I'd like to see you.
You moving out of Cali?
Don't you keep track of your paid staffers?
I've been a little busy, my baby graduated from HS last week...
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