From: Ida Heath (spike@defuniak.com)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 05:07:09 PDT
What is the going rate to go, for example, to a military installation and
pick up a deucenahalf and deliver it to a buyer? When would the mile charge
start, when the truck leaves where it is or when it leaves the pick up
point?
Thanks,
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: <MVTrucker@aol.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Transport from KC to West Coast
> Although present freight rates might appear to be
> high, one thing to keep in mind is that they're
> really a bargain. Along with my fuel and gasoline
> distribution business, I was an independent trucker
> for many years. Even back in the seventies it was
> rare for a trucker to haul for less than a dollar a
> mile. Nursery stock and grain usually paid $2.00 -
> $3.00/mile. When the fuel "shortage" hit in the mid-
> seventies, a good many of us parked our rigs. I was
> involved with many protests and got my face on TV.
> I've sent deuces out on flats recently for eighty
> cents a mile, I honestly don't know how they can do
> it. Lowboy and rollback trailers are usually
> dedicated loads and cost more than regular flats, but
> you have to have running vehicles and loading docks
> at each end of the haul to use flatbeds.
> I guess I should have kept my rig so I could haul
> trucks in. I'm encountering problems with trucking
> companies because they "don't haul GL stuff anymore."
> Joe Young
>
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