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**napa68** · #31 11-12-2025, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by A12pilot

If I could find a darn shipper to pick up my truck I’d be a happy man! Two cancelled right before they were supposed to pick it up!

I am assuming you are going through a broker. I'd also assume you are fighting the snow bird migration to the south. It causes enough delays. Recent changes in CDL compliance is not helping with the population of truck drivers

**A12pilot** · #32 11-12-2025, 02:02 PM

Yes, Tim. But I have a local guy that can do it but he needs something round trip to justify it. I might have to fly in and U-Haul it back! Didn’t think about the snow bird aspect I’d things. That would explain some of it.

Cheers
Dave

**Too Many Projects** · #33 11-12-2025, 02:40 PM

Yep, ~2600 miles R/T for me and 1600 of that deadhead. Fuel alone would be ~$1,000.
My schedule wouldn't let me leave until Sunday and be home late Wednesday morning to leave again Thursday night to drive 400 miles to Rosemont to help with Vintage Cert Friday/Saturday, then return 400 miles home on Sunday. That would make for a very long, busy week. I used to pound out that 3,400 miles in 5 days, running OTR but that was 18 years ago. The brain says I'm still 40, but the body disagrees....