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Post by mackman13 on Jan 3, 2015 23:02:49 GMT -5
Fresh from the pulp wood hauling getting ready to lease with the container port group. Never pulled containers before. Have a 94 Mack ch. any and all advice is welcome! Is the container port group a good company?
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Post by jgr on Jan 8, 2015 19:13:31 GMT -5
Don't know that company. We work in Savannah. WE LIKE CONTAINERS WAAAAY BETTER THAN THE WOOD HAULING. You can do 3 to 4 hundred a day after fuel and deductions pretty easy. The shorter the runs the better. We do a 22 mile run a 9 mile run and a 6 mile run. A combination of the three each day. The work is super easy and your in and out of the port in 45 min to an hour and a half on the worst days. Once you learn the port it's really mostly enjoyable.
You won't make those big checks like you do hauling wood, but there's no trailer to keep up and your insurance will be almost nothing, also fuel will only be 200 a week on short runs. Plus, no mud, no pushing and pulling on your truck, no moving equipment every few days, no beating, banging and pounding by a loader, no stumps and holes to drive over, no broke down logging equipment, no mill quotas, no 100,000 +++ lb loads, no crazy log truck drivers to compete with, no trimming up loads, no throwing straps, no getting turned around at the mill, no sleeping in a day cab rather than drive 100 miles home after a 16 hour day...You know what I'm talking about. Need I say more!!!!!
Container work is sweet. 7 or 8 hours a day. Keep your runs as close to the port as you can and you will do fine. Good luck.
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Post by FUSION on Jan 18, 2015 9:54:33 GMT -5
Then read this, mackman13 & jgr: Hauling Containers: Port Drayage Drivers in the Logistics Supply Chain David Jaffee, Professor of Sociology, University of North Florida. djaffee@unf.edu Adam Rowley, Undergraduate Honors Student, University of North Florida October 2009 - Please do not cite or quote without permission of the author. (Properly given!) Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, April, 2010. And credit to dirtywhiteboy posted on Aug 4, 2010; who found this link: www.unf.edu/~djaffee/hauling%20containers-SSS.doc. |
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Post by jgr on Jan 18, 2015 20:04:59 GMT -5
Wow, that's 29 pages of bad news for Jaxport drivers. Really, things are not like that here in Savannah. I mean more money would be great, but if you work for a company that has their own chassis and keeps you close to the port you can earn a good living.
MR. fusion, do you pull containers yourself? Why not try and give this guy some help if you are surviving in business rather that a link to a doom and gloom academic study. DANG MAN!!! This is a good line of work if you go to work and do your best. No wonder this board is so dead...nothing but bad news. DUDE!!!! This is a sad, dead, bummer of a message board.
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Post by jgr on Jan 18, 2015 20:39:31 GMT -5
For the record this week. 11-44mile round trips $1,485
1-22mile leg $67.5
2-6mile round trips $120
4-1mile drays $140
1-chass drop $25
$1,837.5 Total
Fuel $206 on Monday and still have some left. Ins and escrow $79.63. That's $1,551 net for a 4 day week. That's about average every week for 6, 7, or 8 hour days. You can't beat that...$75,000 a year and you can work when you want as much or as little as you want. I don't see what the big negative bull crap about container work is all about.
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Post by jgr on Jan 18, 2015 20:56:42 GMT -5
This really hacks me off. You have a sincere guy asking for some help and all he gets is what little bit I can offer and then a hateful link to a super negative academic study...Sad, very sad indeed. Message boards are nothing but places to be pissed on and bullied.
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Post by FUSION on Jan 20, 2015 7:50:19 GMT -5
Not so much that it sounds like all negative, but what you take from it. It's good that you, jgr are making money & can brake it down as such. The msg is intended for those that can-not decipher what is read on dead sites like this one. But it is easy to open the lines of communication then on Funny-Facebook. Unless you are new to this game and feel bullied, used the info wisely. Other than that sorry to had struck a nerve.
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Post by savcitytruck on Jan 31, 2015 8:56:45 GMT -5
the georgia port is a big d**n pain in the ass. its been that way for years. i have hauled here at the gpa for eighteen years. the only reason i still do is because i do have a couple decent customers who i move boxes for. hauling containers is bottom of barrel for most truckers. u think log truck drivers are crazy huh? be prepared for the port madness. most these drivers today will run over you inside and outside the terminal to make that move. if this port trucking was so great why all the junk running around town? why the huge turnover rate at these companies? dont turn your back on many of these local trucking companies because they will steal you blind. yes they will deduct everything possible from the monies you manage collect. they feed off inexperienced new hires. yes the will make a believer of you if you let your guard down. good luck. come back and tell everyone what you think after a few months.
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Post by savcitytruck on Jan 31, 2015 9:13:16 GMT -5
although this is cut throat business i manage to gross around $2600 each week working local. every driver out here should be making that easily without sweat but most make only half that amount if lucky. i've worked for probably twenty five companies here in savannah before finding my steady run six years ago. i dont kill my self like most do for the little amount they make. i feel sorry for the guys who bust their can, operate a clean truck, try do everything by the book but still come up short. they are competing with to many steering wheel holders who will break all the rules, run like idiots while trashing everything they drive. most these companies encourage this with their hiring practices or truck leasing programs which are a scam to keep this madness going in savannah. what i m saying is driver beware because there are twenty bad companies to every good one out here in container land. they will eat you, burn you out, rob you if not careful.
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Post by Mark on Jan 31, 2015 14:35:17 GMT -5
We get fifty dollars within one to two mile radius of port gate. We do not do one way bobtail moves without pay both ways. The drays should be $100.00 each way. If drivers would stand together that would be the standard rate. There's to many out here who have no idea how to run a business.
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Post by stuckngear on Jan 31, 2015 22:55:40 GMT -5
I ran containers out of Savannah & the Charleston areas.. I only lasted a few months... It stunk!! LONG waits in the port for a container, chassis, getting somthing fixed.. finding a top lift to mount your container once you found a chassis... ect..
Of course we could "pay" another guy to pickup containers out of the port for us.. He drove 4 miles round trip and charged $35 to turn in one or to pull one out.. so a round he made $70. I say that's wher the $$ is... he would make more $$ than me and I would be driving my butt off. Doing 2500 - 3000mi. in 5 days.. (no work on weekends). Forget trying to run legal..
In 6 months I spent $90 on lights, bulbs.. and the like.. On another note: Every chassis owner has their own tire policy.. some want new only.. some caps only, only certain venders may be used, P.O. # are needed before getting ANY work done.. so getting tire work done is a royal pain in the butt.. They always attempt to make it "driver neglegance" and make you pay for the tire.. saying you "ran it low", or "ran it flat". Pulling cans you WILL have tire problems.. brake problems, light problems.. AND WEIGHT problems.. Just about weekly I was ticketed for overweight.. The co. paid it because I was over gross.. That was a pain..
So go into this carefuly and with the knowlege that cans in my opinion are the bottom of the barrel in trucking..
The FMCSA tried to require container chassis owners be responcible for the maintaince of their equipment.. The port simply ammended their interchange agreement to basicly circumvent the law.. They required you to waive responcibility and accept the responcibility of maintaince yourself on the new interchange agreement.. You refused to sign for the chassis, No load or chassis for U!! SO what ya think happened.. absolutely nothing, back to business as usual.. The law was meaningless..
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Post by crocodile_xpress on Feb 1, 2015 13:20:01 GMT -5
Fresh from the pulp wood hauling getting ready to lease with the container port group. Never pulled containers before. Have a 94 Mack ch. any and all advice is welcome! Is the container port group a good company? Good luck with your new port adventure. Many of us have worked these cans for years. I don't know any I would recommend. Container Port Group has been around a long time. That company has mostly cheap rates just like the rest. They all compete for the same boxes. I don't know how they pay but be sure ask them what they deduct from your weekly settlement check before signing on. Some have all kinds hidden BS charges. |
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Post by kj on Feb 2, 2015 11:40:17 GMT -5
dealing with the people in port trucking is a nightmare. if i had another place to lease my truck i would be gone. right now its all i can do to stay in business.
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Post by FUSION on Feb 10, 2015 8:37:42 GMT -5
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Post by junkymom on Sept 9, 2015 14:00:56 GMT -5
Is anyone know about the ports in CA?
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