Week Was Going Great Then...

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Jay68442's Comment
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So I'm in my 3rd week solo and things are starting to flow a lot better now. I'm catching on quickly and figuring out what works best for me. Well yesterday there was a wrench thrown into the works. One of my stops was to be a drop and hook and that is what I planned for. It turned out to be a live load with a 4 hour delay. Totally ate up my planned driving time. I wanted to get this load to its destination before the bad weather. Running low on hours, 11, 14 and 70 I had to turn the load into a relay and lose a bunch of miles. Ended up making a whopping $36 bucks driving 100 miles in terrible conditions. Just glad I'm home now relaxing with my family. I know this is part of trucking but I just needed to vent. Stay safe

Drop And Hook:

Drop and hook means the driver will drop one trailer and hook to another one.

In order to speed up the pickup and delivery process a driver may be instructed to drop their empty trailer and hook to one that is already loaded, or drop their loaded trailer and hook to one that is already empty. That way the driver will not have to wait for a trailer to be loaded or unloaded.
Kevin H.'s Comment
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You weren't in Kingfield ME by any chance? Anyway, is that $36 just your rate times miles? You'll probably get some short haul pay, and maybe detention pay for being there 4 hours. I've grumbled about low mileage loads that take a long time only to find out when I saw the settlement that it actually paid pretty well.
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