saying NO to cheap freight

I think you missed my point.

If a load is priced in the dirt, it's USUALLY - not all the time - but usually because it's moving from an area that everybody wants to get out of, or moving to an area that everybody's wanting to get to. When there are more trucks than loads, the freight rate is naturally going to go down. When there are more loads than trucks, the rate goes up. Those stingy brokers get pretty generous when their load isn't getting moved and the delivery deadline is fast approaching.

That's why your buddy with the RGN makes the money that he does - there's not a whole lot of those guys out there, so shippers are pretty limited in who they can use. But, everybody and their dog has a van or skateboard, so the competion for freight is much more fierce. It's like throwing a bone to a pack of hungry dogs. Who's gonna get it?

So I'll ask you again: Ten of us are in Anytown, USA. There are only 5 loads leaving this town, and the next closest load is 300 miles away. But we've all agreed not to haul for less than $1.90 per mile. How do we decide which of the five of us get a load, and who deadheads out of town? Do we draw straws?

 

Just because your pulling an RGN don't mean your "in the money." I'm pulling an RGN and there are many loads I can't make enough money on to haul.

 

RGN's don't always make tons of money. The tandems can be the most difficult since there seem to be more of them out there. Start adding axles and the market gets smaller for competition. The costs increase as well though.

I used to hate pulling an open deck and do a drop, go to a T/S and see the lot with about 10 other empty decks sitting there. All the while more pulling in every 15 minutes.

 

Shows what you know, Landstar's big building ain't on the beach. It is surrounded by a golf course though.

 

I followed what you were saying. Areas with lots of trucks just aren't going to draw high $$$ per mile, which is very true and if were going to run those areas we either except it or DH out of that area, or stay clear of that traffic lane all together. Laws of supply and demand in full effect.

Personally I can stomach a $1.40 a mile load for 2200 miles a whole lot better than I can a $2.00 per mile load only moving 400 miles.

 

Everybody has a diffrent cost to operate so a one rate fits all does not work, to me any rate that is less than $1.50 a mile is a cheap rate if my truck was paid for i could go a little lower. I know what it cost me to run so i know my bottom line and it's $1.50 i will not take a load cheaper and in the last year i have only taken a few loads that where less than $2 a mile. Like said before the problem is supply and demand we have a big issue in New England with that, way to many trucks and not enough loads going out so guys take anything they can get no matter the rate. the good rates are there you just need to know who to haul for.

 

I'm not touching anything under $1.80 a mile these days...And I'm staying busy.

 

The truck I drove last year (only ran for 9 months) grossed $2.18 per mile average. Ran 77500 miles for the time it was on the road.