When doing a long distance move it’s more efficient to send just your driver and hire help at your destination from another moving company to unload the truck. This will save you from paying the seat time or overnight fees that accompany your own worker.
To do this contact a reputable moving company in the area of your move ahead of time and arrange the details. Send your driver with cash to pay the lumpers. When your driver gets into town he should swing by the mover’s office to meet the lumpers this way it looks more professional showing up at the destination. Keep track of the companies that provided good help and use them again if you are ever their way. This is one way building a Moving Business Network of your own can be valuable.
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Come on guys, have any of you behind this article ever handled any claims?In a perfect world sure you can save on seat time by hiring road help, but why do most owner operators still keep atleast one guy in the truck?Not because they are lonley.I have been on all sides of this coin.Claims are very hard on an owner operator, when you pull up at an agent to get help especially in the summer its an absolute crapshoot.I have personally gotten help from 15 to 75 years old.Some of the time it works out well, but when you have a local company doing hourly jobs that pays there own claims for hourly work they tend to keep there best guys on the clock and send out the worst with the road drivers, It only makes since.When those guys leave with that driver in the morning to go deliver 25,000 lbs. the operations manager/dispatcher is in no way responsible for those guys claims or workmans comp the driver is.So to sum it up if bad help costs you an average of $250.00 dollars a week in claims and you are still paying the guys what are you losing by keeping a man in the truck/nothing if he is a seasoned mover you can trust, also last but not least the more claims a driver has and the higher % of claims limits the jobs he can do valuation wise once his claims get so high, so in turn you end up with 10,000 lb jobs with lower valuations and lower linehauls, sometimes I wonder about the people who write these articles like have they ever actually hired guys missing teeth with 40 jailhouse tattoo’s and expect a customer to be ok with it?Come on guys
I disagree with Mj Gore. Think about this. Every moving company has its best and worst employees. What would stop a moving company from sending out their best employee with their worst? Depending upon how experienced of a mover the driver is, he should be able to tango with the best and worst employees. Because lets face it, every single moving company has it’s awesome employees and it’s crap emplpoyees. Sooner or later, you will work with both.
Great post! But I am also disagreeing with Mj Gore. And I am agreeing with you Mr. Brian Dotts. You make all right point. Thanks!!