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Question for Truckers, etc.......why is this pin "Anti Haul Back"??

Mercury
I saw this on ebay, and I don't know what it means.........google is no help:


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  • wiplash
    I think everyone is stumped on that one!
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  • TRAP55
    "Back Hauls" are a load you pick up at point B or near it, and haul back to point A.
    "Haul Back" may have another meaning in another part of the country, but around here, it's a refused delivery that has to go back to the shipper at point A.
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  • Big Sky Redneck
    Got me on that one!

    I know the term ?back hauls? is often a term for cheaper rates.

    Before I stopped last month I had a few direct shippers out of Idaho, potato loads, no brokers as I hauled direct. The loads coming back to Montana came out of Sam Adams in Allentown PA, they were considered a ?back haul? to get me back home and close to my shippers in Idaho. Those Sam Adams loads were cheap, $2500 or so cheaper paying than the potato loads I took east, back haul.
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  • jimdeere
    My friend drives for a company that manufactures roof trusses. Occasionally, he will deliver a load 200 miles or more, only to turn around and bring them back. Either the builder has no place to store them or scheduling people screwed up.
    He says it about a $1000 mistake for his company.
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  • bustedknee
    Beto campaign button?
    Forgot a word on the pin? "Wet"?

    Buttphugg campaign button?
    Code for___________?
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  • Mercury
    Wow.......I stumped the brains at Gunbroker.com? :P


    Merc
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  • Wild Turkey
    In my younger days it referred to taking a load for just fuel cost, etc, so truckers didn't lose money running back home empty.

    Guys would get good paying loads into Texas but there was nothing good to haul back and they'd get loads of produce just to pay their fuel bill.
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  • SoreShoulder
    It sounds like something a shipping company hands out to encourage drivers to be careful with their loads so they don't get refused.
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  • Mercury
    Now THAT makes sense! Never thought of it that way, but I bet you are right.

    Merc

    SoreShoulder wrote:
    It sounds like something a shipping company hands out to encourage drivers to be careful with their loads so they don't get refused.
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  • mjrfd99
    Wild Turkey wrote:
    In my younger days it referred to taking a load for just fuel cost, etc, so truckers didn't lose money running back home empty.

    Guys would get good paying loads into Texas but there was nothing good to haul back and they'd get loads of produce just to pay their fuel bill.

    That's what I thought for 40+ yrs
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