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Post by Joseph on Apr 12, 2015 19:56:32 GMT -5
To me the Sav port is the most organized, well run monster you could ever imagine. They are making improvements continuously. The only pain is that one hour lunch shutdown on Saturday. Of course I have learned to work around that as not to get caught sitting. Don't work many Saturdays anyway.
In and out takes less than an hour most times. Most times there is barely enough time to cut your cable ties and turn your pins before the crane or tractor is on you. They are usually waiting for you.
My feeling is that Savannah is working like a mo-fo to avoid a trucker strike and they are doing a good job.
All these ports that are backed up and screwed up need to come down here and see how these folks run savannah.
Seriously, seven or eight boxes every day working about seven hours. I spend more time getting through five red lights and hunting an empty at the warehouse than I do on a leg in or out of the port. We have guys that start early and get 12 or 14 a day. These guys are not 60 years old though!!!!
Really folks, all these screwed up port managers that I read about need to take a field trip to Savannah.
A little more money would be nice though, but I don't see how with all the competition. But maybe, we'll see what shakes up in the future.
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Post by FUSION on Apr 12, 2015 20:01:41 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing. Best news I've heard in fourteen months (and counting).
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Post by Joseph on Apr 13, 2015 19:23:54 GMT -5
Sure thing. Glad to share some gooder news. Today seven boxes from 10:30 to 5:00. Had to swap chassis twice and wait a bit on a crane once. $259.00...not a lot but real easy work and only 52 miles on the truck. Gonna get up early and see what I can do. Maybe 2morro.
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Post by gardencityo/o on Apr 19, 2015 8:33:04 GMT -5
great sounds like a inside port info commercial. guess you missed all the ridiculous backups over the past few weeks? do you actually think for a minute that this savannah port management is concerned with what truckers may do here? they dont give a sh$t. other side of the coin is the cheap f^&k^&g rates here in savannah most run for. $30 to $45 per dray is chump change. easy work? i have been doing this in savanna for twenty years. please tell us where the easy work is.
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Post by Gary S on Apr 19, 2015 14:16:38 GMT -5
Now that's interesting. One driver out of the thousands who work out of this port likes the job port management is doing. Face it - the real reasoning behind no driver strikes at this port is due to the fact truckers in Savannah can not stick together. The GPA respect measurement gauge for local drivers averages somewhere between a maggot and a thingy roach. Anything this port does is strictly for benefit of the port itself no one else.
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Post by Joseph on Apr 20, 2015 19:25:20 GMT -5
Well dudes, did 8 an Sat in six hours and 6 in six hours today. It's a good job no doubt about it. The port rocks!!!!
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Post by lorha1159 on Apr 21, 2015 13:38:28 GMT -5
Sure thing. Glad to share some gooder news. Today seven boxes from 10:30 to 5:00. Had to swap chassis twice and wait a bit on a crane once. $259.00...not a lot but real easy work and only 52 miles on the truck. Gonna get up early and see what I can do. Maybe 2morro. Dang driver.......you must like hauling for peanuts. 259 for 7 boxes means 37$ a box. Wow. If those are the rates in savanah yall can keep that money and your wideopen port.i get 80 one way. Its 10 miles form to either port too. Nevr run more than 100 to 120 miles a day. I had 3 boxes done by 930 this morning and i started at 6am. You do the math. No way on earth, would I start my truck for the rates ur getting down there. Think i would rather park and watch it rust away vs busting my donkey to wear it out. If we ever get the ports flowing good here in va I'm sure it wouldnt take long for companies to want to cut rates more and plenty of uneducated truck drives to haul for it and think they are setting the world on fire.......... |
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Post by FUSION on Apr 23, 2015 14:46:51 GMT -5
So what are you saying, lorha? Keep drivers stupid or follow FTBT method of doing things. Your call...
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Post by lorha1159 on Apr 24, 2015 8:18:19 GMT -5
So what are you saying, lorha? Keep drivers stupid or follow FTBT method of doing things. Your call... What im saying is neither. I personally am anti ftbt....well excuse me......the leadership of the group. Funny thing....had a conversation with a longshoreman at nit last week for about 15mins about vit and ftbt came up. He mentioned to me how much the head of ftbt has his head up patricks (nit zone manager) hind quarters and that ftbt head honcho is angling himself for a port job. Made it sound like as soon as he could get him a port job that he would drop his fellow driversat the drop of a hat. Its funny when ur getting this kind of info from a longshoreman. Also educating fellow drivers on what it takes to run a truck for a profit and not peanuts. As well as understanding the power we have. I understand. Its called turning off the key to my truck......... |
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Post by FUSION on Apr 25, 2015 10:51:29 GMT -5
Dam, lorha. I agree 100%.
Soon it will all come out & the poor bastards that are following are back on the line waiting for two, three, four hours plus.
Stupid drivers? No, they deserve what they don't understand following behind the Selfie director.
As with today's group therapy meeting: WE ARE SAVING YOUR BUSINESS $$$$ BY CONDUCTING OUR ANNUAL PROPERTY TAX CLASS AMONGST OTHER IMPORTANT TOPICS.... Another pandering to behind the scene favors. Sound like a Hillary C. do as do follower.
I quote: What are your thoughts??
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Post by Joseph on Apr 27, 2015 18:19:03 GMT -5
That's it $37.00 in $37.00 out. That's going less than two miles. I wish we made more but I don't see it with all the completion around here. Heck man, there are over 100 companies competing for the same work. I'm just saying the port here works very well with improvements all the time. Did 10 Sat in 8 hours and 7 today in 7 hours. Still fair for me. To get more money here would take a serious effort by thousands of owner ops. Just don't see it happening here.
As for the port, we have a good deal with that for sure.
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Post by drayman on Apr 30, 2015 22:37:34 GMT -5
$37 is a decent diver wage. if u supply truck that is poverty in savannah. the trucking company is screwing u driver.the reason they pay that is because people work for that chicken s#*t rate. unbelievable. i move boxes in savannah port for $75 within garden city area.pooler $100 if one way move. that is another $45 for dry run. even that is not enough. i would not bother buying a tag for $37 bucks.
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Post by FUSION on May 2, 2015 1:20:31 GMT -5
Well dudes, did 8 an Sat in six hours and 6 in six hours today. It's a good job no doubt about it. The port rocks!!!! You sound delusional, like someone at FTBT, AKA the A** Clown. |
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Post by FUSION on May 2, 2015 1:25:09 GMT -5
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Post by Joseph on May 2, 2015 17:51:47 GMT -5
Drayman, where do you work? Do they need any help. Please let me know. I have not heard of these kind of rates. Dang as easy as the port is I could clear 2,500 a week after what little fuel and insurance costs are. PLEASE let me know.
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Post by Joseph on May 2, 2015 19:08:35 GMT -5
Drayman, call me if you don't want to put anything on the site. 912 682 5628
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Post by FUSION on May 2, 2015 21:16:38 GMT -5
An exemplary driver, Joseph. Good luck with that, you deserve it.
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Post by Brett on May 4, 2015 15:10:23 GMT -5
I work for a company who does business here stuffing boxes 4 shipment overseas. e made an hourly deal. The two of us get $75 per hour. So whatever goes on at GPA we're covered our butt. I have worked the gerogia port for years. They are incompetent. It's always been a cluster f#$k in Savannah. Sometimes in and out in a couple hours. Some times four plus hours. Wait until the Christmas cargo stars again. Where were you during the backups a couple months back? Like most other places. Depends what customer. Whet line you go to. The GPA doesnt give a rats a## about truckers.
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Post by FUSION on May 9, 2015 7:07:57 GMT -5
Can you (or any drivers) make a list of what's wrong or should be corrected.
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Post by joseph on May 19, 2015 18:17:39 GMT -5
I see nothing wrong in Sav. I did nine today in seven hours. Did eight yesterday did ten Saturday. Very fast... crane waiting for me most times. The rates are the problem I just don't see them rising with all the competition. I mean dang, Evans has six or seven companies under one parent all competing for and beating down rates. My company has to bid to get the work to keep us busy. Seems the companies need to get involved to raise rates. I mean d**nit if you haul a 24,000 lb pound load of sunglasses from China at 50 cent a pair, that is a bunch of money even for a cheap item. Seems Dollar Tree could pay more that 37 bucks to get it out of the port and take it 4 miles and drop it, you know.
Drayman may be just blowin smoke. I know of a 7 mile run for 44 bucks, a 23 mile run for 62.5 bucks, an 11 mile run for 50 bucks. That includes getting the box out and is one leg. The mtys back pay the same. One of those runs is a major hassle to get in and out and find an mty and the guards act like friggin skinhead Nazis anyway. There are no rates that even come close to matching what he said. Sorry dude, that's just the facts around here. And seeing that he has not asked me to come on board kind of makes me wonder.
Rates need to come way up, but I just don't see how.
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Post by joseph on May 19, 2015 18:35:17 GMT -5
Sorry drayman, in your defense, we do get a few loads that are close to the port that pay 80 or 100 bucks, but they are so inconsistent, maybe two a week, that they really don't count. I'm talking about consistent loads, pre-dispatched day after day stuff. Maybe you only do gravy loads, If so I am sorry to have dissed you. Peace But if you know of a better place please contact me, I am an excellent worker and have a very nice day cab.
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Post by JOSEPH on May 21, 2015 18:41:28 GMT -5
Started one today that's 91.00 round trip about 4 miles from the port. Easy process getting in and out. That's a little better money wise. Easy to do three a day and one off the yard to start and one to the yard to end. About 7 hours. For about 350 a day before fuel and insurance. Still real quick in and out gate six at the port. Did 36 miles today.
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Post by rocky on May 22, 2015 7:29:08 GMT -5
good luck next week making money at port after all the deaths semis have cauased around savannah. the dot is gonna bust container trucks a new a**h***. five dead tuesday when that container guy slammed into those stopped vehicles on 1-16 four miles from the port. three more dead yeaterday from another semi accident . five dead nurses three weeks ago on 1-16 outside savannah from semi slamming into stopped cars. i would not want to be driving truck around this town for a while.
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Post by FUSION on May 22, 2015 7:31:06 GMT -5
Easy if you can do it every day w/o competition. Good luck, make that money best you can. Remember it's your equipment. If one place don't treat you right, rip those placards and you are back in business some where soon. You are in demand. Don't let some lil princess tell you what you can make and how.
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Post by lorha1159 on May 22, 2015 10:30:20 GMT -5
Easy if you can do it every day w/o competition. Good luck, make that money best you can. Remember it's your equipment. If one place don't treat you right, rip those placards and you are back in business some where soon. You are in demand. Don't let some lil princess tell you what you can make and how. Thats what i tell the guys were im leased to....placards come off real easy and new ones stick right back on just the same.im aware of whos name is on the title of my truck...... ME! IF your a hard working driver that gets the job done right(as in give me a load in and load out and dont hear me/you untill its done...barring something that HAS TO get the office involved) and properly maintains their truck (which means you like when the dot works the ports bc all the riff raff is not there), all the GOOD companies that generally dont advertise for drivers will take you in a second. Thats kinda how i look at things. Good drivers are always in demand. |
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