Winged Ops

On the never-ending journey to bring order to chaos.

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@FreightAlley Is this because illegal capacity is hiding in intrastate?

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Craig is correct: Technically, Victory Park is Uptown (north of the Woodall Rodgers freeway wall). As someone who both lives and offices in the downtown core, and who literally had an office in the AAC at this location until the Great Freight Recession fully kicked in, I can say it's pristine compared to downtown proper.

It's a loss for the area, but also for those who are leaving. Who wants to relocate to the burbs? Blah.

Still, there is enough growth and activity in Dallas that hopefully this site will be reactivated sooner rather than later.

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@AronMorgan11 @FreightAlley @John__Ferguson The other Dallas resident on this post: I've lived and officed in downtown Dallas for 18 years now.

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@FreightAlley Are there market areas that are seeing this rate improvement in drayage?

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@FreightAlley That’s the number that counts:
Line haul before fuel.

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@RobCarpenter @IngridBrown803 @ThomasWasson Our team loves using motive for the ELDs and AI dash cams (even though we are having to train the AI cams).
They need to stop outsourcing their customer support, however. Their front line support staff know virtually nothing.

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Small dray carrier here: We are booked solid until the week of May 8th. The phones are ringing and we've been turning away loads all day long, including from other carriers. (No, thank you.) If these companies had been giving us work before this week at reasonable rates, we could have added to our fleet and provided capacity. But no, they had to book with rotten carriers so they could pay $1.30 per mile. And now, the rotten carriers are falling off their loads and the brokers are going into anxiety over per diem charges.

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@rgreider @dartinguphill Okay, what’s a 34?

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@dartinguphill Eat real food.
Keep the coffee.
Ditch the processed protein.

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As a small carrier, I can attest to this. The idea that "good carriers - regardless of size - doing good things will be the winners" ignores the nuance and messiness of the current system.

Since roughly 91% of all US motor carriers operate 10 trucks or less, the scoring system should have received attention and been fixed long ago.

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And the officers are out to prove a point.

We are a dray carrier in a wheeled market, meaning are REQUIRED to use pool chassis, which are notoriously poorly maintained and not owned by the carrier.

Yesterday we received a DOT violation for the ABS lamp on the pool chassis not being labeled "ABS." Not defective, not unsafe, not inoperable. Just not labeled correctly.

As a carrier who has had to reduce fleet size by two thirds due to last four years of market mess, this will have a devastating impact on our safety score and business opportunities.

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@TMSuccessful I love that your kid is patriotic. ❤️

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@thefreightnerd Go, little G-Wagon, go!

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@FreightAlley Excellent. Will dray rates be included?

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@DisrespectedThe @atutruckers Same Singh, second verse.

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@maybedanielleee Confirms my suspicions.

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@TMSuccessful Best laugh of the day!

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@RepNikkiB @LincolnLand @iltrucking Fleet owner here. There is no driver shortage. If there were, 80,000+ American motor carriers wouldn’t have gone out of business over the past three years. This is an overcapacity problem driving rates below sustainable levels.

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@FreightAlley Any insight as to when drayage might get in on the action?

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@SearchCarriers @maybedanielleee Bahaha! You got me!