Hauling

I've made several trips, and made myself available, but in the end, I have actually not made use of the service. People problems.

About ten stories...
One man wanted me to pick up the tractor and deliver it, but absolutely would not give money up front, he'd meet me there, nearly 500 miles away, and give a check once it was on the ground. I said no money, no haul. And no check. I suppose someone else hauled that tractor.

Another man from NY wanted me go into the heart of NYC and pick up a car, take it 300 miles. I tried to just tell the guy that I couldn't do it, that I was going from NY over into Canada to pick up a crawler. He called me 5-10 times on my cell during the trip. Apparently, he was also calling others, as he mistook remarks to me from others conversations. Finally, as I was cruising down the Queensbury freeway loaded with a crawler, I got the last call. The man got beligerent and accused my of lying, that I did not have a crawler, and just didn't want to come to NY and haul his car. I politely tried to explain, regardless, I was unavailable.
I guess what I want to say, is that for those who haul and have good luck, I salute you. Some intersting situations arise. While there are some characters who say they'll haul and money exchanged...there are also guys who get asked to move something for little or no return.
Honest people have to be involved on both ends.

Wayne

But normally most of us amatuers just haul and only ask for expenses or there abouts.

Not from YT hauling, but I have rec'd "pretty" checks from honest looking people, that were worthless. So it is cash, MO; no checks. I'd ask cash from a preacher.

But some of the calls were like: "you advertised on YT hauling, so I need you to come two-three states here and pick up.... 28 cents a mile or 38 cents a mile.

So I just say I cannot do it.

I look for signals the person is honest or not. Or a pain in the @$$. It is about two honest people, one just covering my expenses to haul their item (no profit) so I can honestly say I am not for hire, and I deliver.

I have yet to haul for anyone thru YT hauling. Not to say they were not honest, but I don't go way out of my way, nor take checks. The fine line between "for hire" and not is profit and going anywhere for a load. I hope.
Some of the comments about hauling imply that if someone advertise on YT hauling, they need to haul. No. No. No. It is a mutual favor agreement. There has to be lots of trust, especially if the person does not ride or follow you. I don't think YT hauling is responsible for any bad haulers or any bad load owners. I think their role is to provide a forum to link us up, and it stops there. Each of us are at risk, to ensure we figure out what fair looks like or not haul or take the haul offer. Or not.

Doggone shame there are less than honest people.
Wayne